Andrew Pollack and Max Eden's book, “Why Meadow Died,” is an incredibly illuminating and emotionally draining read. Pollack's daughter Meadow was one of the 17 casualties of the Parkland shooting. The authors lay out a case in painstaking and convincing detail that this horrible tragedy could have been prevented if any one of literally dozens of people had made a different decision regarding the persistently violent and deeply troubled student who carried out the massacre. In every instance, the tyranny of metrics nudged them toward a decision that helped enable the tragedy.
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