Parkland Parent Tony Montalto Worried About Students Returning To Classrooms Due To Pandemic Mental Health Impacts

Miami FL

31 March, 2021

12:11 PM

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CBS Miami March 31, 2021 The Secret Service, which protects presidents and cabinet officers, has just released a study of school shootings and how to stop them. The agency's National Threat Assessment Center analyzed nearly 70 disrupted school plots over the past two decades. The study found the key to stopping them was an early intervention, by someone close to a student possibly planning violence. Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina died in the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland three years ago, is the president of Stand with Parkland which pushes for gun and school safety reforms. He said he's more worried now about students heading back to the classroom, because of the pandemic's impact on mental health. Read more at CBS Miami