A mom was charged for posing as her middle school daughter in class. She says she ‘proved’ security flaws.

Washington Post ^ | 6/7/2021 | Andrea Salcedo

[simpson96]

Last week, Casey Garcia walked straight into an El Paso middle school. She later greeted the principal and faculty, ate lunch in the cafeteria without a mask and made it almost all the way to the last class period.

Only then, Garcia said in a video, did a teacher notice she was not actually a student — she was the 30-year-old mother of one of the seventh-graders.

Garcia was arrested on Friday after social media posts she made about the incident went viral. She was charged with criminal trespass and tampering with government records, jail records show.

But the Texas mother insisted she wasn’t seeking to break the law or gain online notoriety — instead, she said, her “social experiment” was meant to show the lack of safety protocols at schools and to illustrate how vulnerable students are to threats, especially mass shootings.

“We need better security at our schools,” Garcia said in a video. “This is what I tried to prove. I don’t mean to be curt, but I kind of feel like I proved it.”

She added: “There have been way too many mass shootings. The first one should have never happened. We need metal detectors. I don’t think backpacks are a good idea.”

San Elizario Independent School District Superintendent Jeannie Meza-Chavez told The Washington Post the district would review its security measures after Garcia’s arrest.

“While there was a breach in security by an individual associated as a parent with the school … we want to assure you that our security measures are being reviewed and evaluated,” Meza-Chavez said in an email.

Since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, more than 248,000 children at 260 schools have experienced gun violence, according to data compiled by The Post.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I bet they are also counting every incident in which a gun was found in a students car or locker. And probably every school that had a student commit suicide with a gun.

[Antoninus]

If you care about your kids, homeschool.

[Svartalfiar]

made it almost all the way to the last class period.

Only then, Garcia said in a video, did a teacher notice she was not actually a student — she was the 30-year-old mother of one of the seventh-graders.

Hm. She must be pretty short, and have a more-developed daughter than most. Even with sweatshirt and mask, she does not look like a seventh-grader at all. How did none of the teachers not notice one of their students looks different? Not notice she wasn't interacting with the other kids like the daughter normally would? I assume she avoided answering any questions or talking to the classroom teachers much directly... Cause after a year, even masked, teachers should be able to recognize their kids I would think...

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Goes to show ALL of you just how unengaged these teachers are, why should they care YOU CANT fire them!!!