Does this make any sense, outside of Virginia?

different era

This is sort of a garbled article, but apparently at least three teachers, including the one who ended up shot, knew that the 6-year-old had a gun with him, and yet had to wait for administrators to give permission to seize him. WTF?

On that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times — three times — school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people,” lawyer Diane Toscano said in a Wednesday news conference. “But the administration could not be bothered.”

Toscano said one teacher told administrators at 12:30 p.m. the day of the shooting that she searched the boy’s backpack for the gun but believed it was in his pocket. Shortly after, a different teacher alerted administrators about the boy after a student said the 6-year-old showed him the gun and threatened to shoot him.

Stunningly, another employee asked if she could search the boy — but was dismissed by administrators who said “to wait the situation out because the school day was almost over,” Toscano claimed.