It is a rock and a hard place. That's why prayer is so important. We can always trust God to have exactly the right answer at exactly the right time.
And I am sure that the writer of this article was not exactly open to the possibility that the Lord had been consulted.
And they made it sound as if the school was skulking around: As the family gathered outside the school for a news conference Friday, students and staff peered at the scene out of the windows.