This was at Skyline High in the Oakland hills. Most people who live in the area send their kids to private schools. A few days after the shooting, another school shooting took place - this time, at Laney Community college just a few miles away. The former football coach (who had also been a coach at Skyline) was killed.
Our local high school has had a shooting or stabbing in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Last month, 2 students were shot and there have been 3 lockdowns at the school so far this year (that's 3 in 3 months). This school is in one of the most affluent parts of the bay area (in the hills surrounded by multi-mullion dollar homes and redwood trees). For most of my life, I've been ambivalent about surveillance cameras (neither in favor nor against them) but now I lean towards supporting efforts to install them (especially since the shootings at Brown and MIT). If they eventually help to apprehend a killer before they hurt someone else or cause people to think twice about even bringing a weapon to a school, then that benefit overrides any "atmosphere of distrust." Nobody wants to get a call that their child has been shot at school.
They have no choice. If they're sending their kids to the public school, they can't afford private school.