A Broward County elementary school principal who lost her daughter in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting says her school district lacked empathy in wake of the February massacre.
April Schentrup's daughter Carmen was one of 17 killed in the Valentine's Day tragedy.
She told school board members that the district tried to dock her pay for missed work and that the superintendent told her it was not a part-time job when she tried to ease back into work after her daughter's death.
Schentrup says no one on the school board sent condolence letters or called her, until about three months after the shooting, the day after she signed up to speak at Tuesday's meeting.
At that meeting, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports school board members quietly listened and didn't respond.
Her husband, Philip Schentrup, said Superintendent Robert Runcie did come to their house and offered sympathy -- while defending the district's actions.
"A week after my daughter was murdered, Mr. Runcie came to my house, sat at my kitchen table, told my wife and I the school district had done everything right," he said. "That was an outrage, given I was burying my 16-year-old daughter."
School district officials said the district reinstated April Schentrup's pay for time off through March 30 and approved a leave of absence that will have "the least impact" on her leave time.
Officials also mentioned that the district has increased the law enforcement presence and conducted a threat assessment of schools.