MOHONASEN Parent questions handling of bomb threat at middle school BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter
One parent is questioning the district’s response to a bomb threat scrawled on the wall of a bathroom at Draper Middle School on Monday. School officials at 9:50 a.m. found the threat that indicated a bomb was set to go off sometime toward the end of the day. Students were instructed to stay in their rooms and police swept the school. No evidence of a bomb was found. However, as a precaution, all middle school students and staff were relocated to the Mohonasen High School gym at about 12:45 p.m., according to a statement on the school district’s Web site. A canine unit searched the building once it was empty. All after-school activities at the middle school were canceled. Parent Elida Gross questioned the district’s decision to keep the children in the classroom “You shouldn’t leave the children in school for three hours knowing there is a bomb threat,” she said. “I think it was handled very poorly. How would you feel if your child was in there?” Gross said the district sent out an e-mail to parents but no telephone call. She did not receive the e-mail until she returned home. Superintendent Kathleen Spring said students were in no danger by remaining in their classrooms. “We had information that it was an end of the day type of situation,” she said. ..............>>>>................>>>>..............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01306&AppName=1
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