By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:33 GMT, 21 March 2019 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 21 March 2019
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Ty Thompson was reassigned on Wednesday. A commission's report in January found he was 'disengaged' with his school's way of assessing threatening students before the shooting
The principal of Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were slaughtered in a mass shooting last year, has been reassigned amid an ongoing investigation into whether teachers could have prevented the killings.
Ty Thompson was reassigned on Wednesday while the probe into the school, in Parkland, Florida, continues.
In January, a commission report found that he was 'disengaged' with the school's threat assessment process and was unaware that shooter Nikolas Cruz's behavior was of concern.
Three other school employees who were in the school on the day of the shooting have also been reassigned.
They are accused of not calling a code red soon enough once Cruz started shooting. The first one came in three minutes after the first shots were fired.
The commission's report skewers Thompson specifically for not being more aware of their dealings with Cruz in the years and months prior to the shooting.
The three other teachers formed what is known as a threat