Newport News Education Association creates tipline [Video]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — More Newport News teachers are speaking up about concerns within the school division.

The president of the education association formed a tipline following the shooting at Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old shot his first-grade teacher.

In the months following the shooting, more school division teachers are making their voices heard anonymously.

“Since the lawsuit has been filed, there have been a lot of tipline concerns,” said Newport News Education President James Graves. 

Graves created the tipline through email just a few weeks after the shooting. He told 13News Now since then, some of the biggest tips he’s received are about students making verbal threats at school.

“You can’t take something not seriously, because look what happened to Richneck. So, every threat in our union against our …