Voa education report - Virginia Tech Report Criticizes Mental Health System, School Actions

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is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee its findings last week about the Virginia Tech shootings April. The committee appointed by Virginia's governor and led a retired state police official called for more than changes. The goal is to prevent a similar tragedy Virginia or anywhere else. On April sixteenth Seung-Hui Cho, student, killed thirty-two people and wounded seventeen before killing . Among other things, the Virginia Tech Review Panel discussed mental health history. In nineteen ninety-nine-, he wrote in school about killing himself and others. This was after Columbine High School shootings in Colorado. His teachers thought should get treatment, which he did. He also received in high school. But school officials thought privacy laws sharing this information with Virginia Tech. There, he caused number of troubling incidents. The report says the university Blacksburg did not intervene effectively. It says no one all the information and no one put it all . The committee pointed to problems with Virginia's mental health . It also found widespread misunderstanding about federal and state laws. In two thousand five, a court judged the man a danger to himself and ordered him to treatment. But he was not ordered into a hospital. , his name should have been added to federal and lists of people barred from buying guns. Virginia law not make that clear. Governor Tim Kaine has moved deal with this. But Virginia officials found that less half the states report any mental health information to federal database used for gun purchases. At Virginia Tech, services reacted quickly after two people were killed early morning. But the report says police may have been quick to decide that a possible suspect was probably longer in the area. And top administrators are criticized failing to send out a warning message about the for almost two hours. Minutes after that, the shootings in Norris Hall. Still, the committee says quickly securing buildings would not have been possible. Some victims' families the university president and police chief to resign or dismissed. The governor rejected that idea. Virginia Tech began new school year August twentieth, a day after a for a memorial to the thirty-two victims. And that's VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Bob Doughty.

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