The superintendent of a Texas school district resigned after a third-grade student found his gun unattended in a school bathroom.
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Robby Stuteville submitted his resignation from the Rising Star Independent School District effective Monday. It will formally be accepted at a special board meeting on Thursday, said Monty Jones, secondary principal for grades 6 through 12, in a phone call with NBC News.
The student told his teacher about the firearm, and the teacher sent the boy and another student to"go and be sure that's what he found," Jones said Tuesday. The two students went to the bathroom and"once it was determined that's what it was, they went straight to the superintendent's office," he said.
Jones said the students never touched the gun. The teacher, who has not been identified, was"talked to" by an administrator on campus, he said, without disclosing what was discussed.of Abilene, Texas, that he was using the restroom and placed his gun in the stall. He said it was left unattended for about 15 minutes until the student found it."He took a lot of pride in his job, and it was an accident that happened and he felt extremely bad about it," Jones said of Stuteville.
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