MOUNTAINTOP, Pa. — A Pennsylvania school district that played audio clips of the Florida high school mass shooting during a tribute to victims has apologized. Officials said the tribute was broadcast Wednesday during a student protest at the Crestwood School District that was part of nationwide walkout over gun violence following the shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The tribute broadcast over a loudspeaker at the Crestwood Secondary Campus included the sounds of gunfire, students yelling for help and the sirens of emergency vehicles, The (Hazleton) Standard-Speaker reported . After complaints from some parents of students in the district, the superintendent apologized Thursday on his personal Twitter account, saying the clip “should not have been played.”“I accept full responsibility for this matter and I apologize,” the statement from Superintendent Joseph Gorham’s Twitter account said. “It should have been an adult’s place to say, ‘We don’t think that’s OK, and this shouldn’t be done.’ That’s how I’m feeling too,” she said.

Source: National Post March 17, 2018 18:56 UTC