As demonstrated in parts one, two, and three, there is ample evidence that Sandy Hook Elementary was open and fully operational when Adam Lanza, and Lanza alone, shot his way into the school and murdered twenty-six people. I’m limiting myself to the same exact collection of crime scene photos used by deniers to argue that the school closed permanently in 2008 to prepare for a fake shooting spree four years later. However, I haven’t even begun to address the mountain of official documents uncovered by researchers over at Metabunk, Sandy Hook: Focus On Facts, and others. Those will be covered in due time.
This time, I want to delve into the SMART Technologies products found within Sandy Hook Elementary. While SMART Tables and Boards can be spotted in multiple classrooms as well as the library (as seen in the video walkthrough and briefly discussed in Chapter Eight), I’ll focus specifically on those in classrooms six (special education) and eight (1st grade).
Beginning with page 246 of Walkley’s crime scene photos (Walkley – scene photos.pdf), which was taken inside classroom six, we see a large, nondescript grey box. This is actually a SMART Technologies SMART Table, which receives a brief mention in Deborah Pisani’s second police interview (Book 5, 00019296.pdf):
“[Redacted] stated that near the door is a smart table and she stated that something or someone hit or kicked the table. She knows this because it makes a ‘boink’ noise.”
The SMART Table seen in classroom six is a model ST230i. For confirmation, here’s a picture of the unit as it appears on page 246 (directly under the calendar for December 2012), alongside a promotional photo of the ST230i:
For the record, only two models of the SMART Table even exist, and the other one looks like it fell out of a spaceship, so a comparison photo is almost entirely unnecessary. Still, I’d rather not give anyone the chance to accuse me of not doing my research.
Anyway, I reached out to the very friendly, very helpful people over at SMART Technologies and asked when the SMART Table ST230i was released. They replied within hours, confirming that the SMART Technologies SMART Table ST230i, as seen in classroom six, was released on February 18th, 2009. That’s one year after conspiracy theorists claim the school was permanently closed.
Now, before your inner denier starts raising their hand and asking, “Well, couldn’t they have planted the SMART Table there to make the scene look more authentic?” please keep in mind that this is a $6,500–$8,000 piece of technology, seen in literally one crime scene photograph. You’d have to believe that authorities wheeled in a 153+ pound machine, costing thousands of dollars, partially hid it under a large piece of paper, and took just one picture of it in a single classroom (all while supposedly forgetting key details, like simulating bullet holes in a window).
They did all of this on the off-chance that someone scrutinizing these crime scene photos would recognize the table and just so happen to know its release date. This is such an astronomical leap in logic that believing it should qualify you for the Olympics.
That’s also not the only SMART Technologies product in classroom six. There are a couple of additional photos where we get a clear look at the room’s SMART Technologies SMART Board hanging on the wall. Page 252 of Walkley’s crime scene photos provides a great view of the 600i2 SMART Board, along with the profile of what is unmistakably a SMART Unifi 45 projector. For comparison, here’s a side-by-side shot of the crime scene image and a promotional photo of the SMART 600i2 SMART Board setup:
Once I was able to identify the whiteboard and projector model numbers, I reached out again to the fantastic support team over at SMART Technologies (and no, they’re not paying me to say that). This time, they informed me that the 600i2 SMART Board with Unifi 45 projector was released in February 2008. Since certain conspiracy theorists claim that the school was permanently closed later that same year, it really wouldn’t make much sense for Newtown to invest the significant time and money required to purchase and install this equipment in a school they allegedly planned to shutter within months.
Finally, we make our way to classroom eight, home to Mrs. D’Amato’s 1st-grade class. On page 570 of Walkley’s scene photos, we get a close enough view of the SMART Board to identify it as another 600i2 model, though this one includes a Unifi 55 projector. Below is a comparison between the SMART Board setup shown in the crime scene photo and a promotional image of the Unifi 55 for reference:
(Also note the December 2012 calendar entry—showing the 31st falling on a Monday—on the far right side of the photo).
This projector model—the Unifi 55—was not released until March 2009, a full year after the school was allegedly closed for good. Are we supposed to believe someone returned to Sandy Hook Elementary annually just to install thousands of dollars in specialty electronics for the sole purpose of staging a few crime scene photos? This is the level of absurdity the conspiracy theorists push, suggesting authorities would prioritize these elaborate, costly additions while completely botching more critical details like faking shot-out windows or scattering the right amount of bullet casings.
For more in the “Sandy Hook Elementary Was Open” series, please read:
Part One: The Lobby
Part Two: The Obstinate Pen
Part Three: Holiday Decorations And Calendars
Part Four: SMART Technologies
Part Five: Dawn Hochsprung’s Twitter Feed
Part Six: The 2011-2012 Scrapbook
Part Seven: Children’s Authors Visit Sandy Hook
Part Eight: Charitable Causes
Part Nine: The Library
Part Ten: 92 More Photos From Sandy Hook School
Part Eleven: Over 195 Articles Referencing Sandy Hook School, Written Between 2008-2012
Part Twelve: The Glass Display Cases
Part Thirteen: Google Earth
Part Fourteen: The November 2012 Scholastic Book Fair
Part Fifteen: Sandy Hook School Enrollment For 2008-2017
Part Sixteen: School Documents From 2008-2012
http://education.smarttech.com/en/products/smart-table
That’s a smart table from the last decade, you know schools are paperless now and were in 2012
I honestly have zero idea what you’re attempting to say. I don’t know what a SMART Table does or does not have to do with whether or not schools were “paperless” (as someone who works in a “paperless” office, it means nothing) in 2012. The model seen in the crime scene photos was released in February of 2009, as stated in the article and confirmed by SMART Technologies themselves. Are you attempting to convince me that they’re wrong about their own product?
I am a teacher and I can tell you for a fact my school is not paperless. I have been a substitute teacher in several other schools before I landed my full time teaching job and my daughter has attended two schools in her 10 years and none of them have been paperless.
My office is “paperless” and we stack it up by the pallet on a weekly basis. It’s like food advertising itself as “all-natural”: it doesn’t really mean much. The original comment does make a whole lot of sense anyway as these SMART Technologies products do not use any paper. If anything, seeing these SMART products in every room would be an indication that they’re at least making an attempt to move away from paper.
Are there not records of asbestos contamination, and PCBs under the floor? Request for 4.9 million dollars to make repairs and upgrades? Issues with the roof?
Built in 1956? What about admission records for the wounded, described as not many. I remember very clearly, when broadcast “live”, that there were 3 men in ninja suits in back of SHES, witnessed, running into the woods, behind. I remember responding police were stopped a distance away, for their safety. Many more questions than answers. False flags can and sometimes must have “real” victims and survivors, adding to the credibility. Americans attacking Americans, but blaming a scapegoat or a bogeyman. Give better answers.
Which repairs and upgrades? Which year are you referring to? Provide sources. Furthermore, I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Are you suggesting that schools (especially fifty-six year-old schools) should always be in such a state that repairs are never necessary? That doesn’t make a lick of sense. Or are you suggesting that there is no such thing as a fifty-six year old school? The alleged “asbestos contamination” has been addressed elsewhere, and when you refer to the PCBs under the floor, I’m pretty positive you’re referring to the issues discovered during demolition. Again, provide sources.
Are you talking about hospital admission records? Why would you – or anyone else – be privy to this information? Do you really believe that we should subject people to such an invasion of their privacy just because you believe some goofy Internet bullshit? Wait – don’t answer that.
Now, if these records were publicly available (and they shouldn’t be), what would stop you from declaring them fakes, much like your kind have done with every other people of information that has been released in the four years since the shooting? You’re able to order certified copies of the death certificates, for Christ’s sake. The victims are listed in the SSDI. Etc.
Even if this is truly what you believe you heard (and I have to admit, three ninjas is a new one to me, and it’s one that I’m struggling not to laugh at), it’s wrong. Three ninjas? Even if you were correct (and you’re not), why in the world would they send three ninjas to kill a bunch of elementary school children? Were cartoon supervillians not available that day? And you suggest that the local police were not involved (at least I assume that’s what you were getting at), yet they responded to an allegedly abandoned building and didn’t think it was at all strange that twenty children were gunned down there? Your theories aren’t even compatible with one another, which makes me wonder whether or not you people actually think about this stuff before you go running your mouths. As I’ve mentioned a number of times, misinformation is an unfortunate yet wholly expected side effect of the twenty-four hour news cycle. All breaking news is rife with misinformation. Maybe next you’ll tell me Dewey really did defeat Truman; you saw it on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune. So it’s gotta be true.
There’s no shortage of answers; you just refuse to accept them.
Drew, were these the men you believe ran into the woods?
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the projector in room eight is not the uf65 its the uf55 smart
Michael, this appears to be correct. At least in the sense that the projector shown here in Walkley’s photo more closely resembles the UF55 than it does the UF65. Thank you for the correction; good eye. I will update this entry accordingly later.
That said, the UF55 appears to have gone on sale in 2009. Again, that is a year after conspiracy theorists falsely claim the school was permanently closed.
Fixed.