15-Year-Old Girl Identified as the Shooter in a Wisconsin School

Abundant Life often served as a kind of refuge for children who had been bullied or struggled at other schools, because the staff were quick to put a stop to cruelty, said Rebekah Smith, 50, whose teenage daughter was in a physics class down the hall from where the shooting occurred.

Ms. Smith said that members of the school community believed that the shooter was new to the private school this year and was among those who came in need of a life change. The school’s student population has grown dramatically since the pandemic, she said.

From kindergarten through the eighth grade, I attended a school similar to Abundant Life (church members received free tuition). Children from other schools would be transferred there because they had gotten into trouble at public schools. If you didn’t belong to the church, you were ostracized. Bullying still happened, and the school was far smaller than Abundant Life.

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Abundant Life Christian School serves 420 kids in grades 3K to 12, Barbara Wiers, the school’s director of elemetary and school relations told media outlets at the third press conference of the day.