“It’s horrific,” Israel told Runcie over the phone. School district spokesperson Tracy Clark, who was riding in the back seat, couldn’t stop herself from cutting in. “What does that mean? What is that? What is that?” she demanded as Runcie tried to quiet her. Between 16 and 20 teenagers and their teachers were dead, the sheriff said, calling it the worst thing he’d ever seen. The superintendent, famed all of his 56 years for being cool and composed, began to sob. There, on a car-clogged stretch of the Sawgrass Expressway, the enormity of what had occurred settled over the SUV. As one of his schools became shorthand for horror, just like “Columbine” or “Sandy Hook,” Runcie would have to take on the daunting task of leading everyone through the unfathomable tragedy. But in that private moment, as the Tahoe neared the tree-lined suburb of Parkland, all he could do was cry. “I felt like I lost my own kids,” says Runcie, a father of three grown daughters. An unlikely superintendent from the start, Runcie soon found himself shoved onto a national stage to grapple with some of America’s most charged issues: gun control, mental health, and school safety. In the… Read full this story
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