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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like APS is doing an investigation, which is appropriate. When investigations happen, the relevant staff are put on leave with pay, also appropriate. Imagine if they didn't!!![/quote]

Yes, of course they are. So many of the people demanding more info NOW obviously have never been part of a leadership team or crisis management team. So much goes on behind the scenes and you have to keep certain critical info close to the chest at first.  I think to the horrible murders at that college group house recently where the community was bashing law enforcement for not doing enough. Then when they caught the guy, they were able to say what they had been doing which was actually quite sophisticated. These parents just have no idea. [/quote]

Yes, but you have to admit that this is different - a murder case investigation by a PD vs. how a public school system handles violent threats.  I don't know the Key principal OR the Taylor principal the parents are mentioning, at all, but I'm disturbed that there are two separate issues which are being conflagrated here:  The principal question, and the child threatening to kill another with a gun.  As a parent of a third grader who believes this could happen anywhere, I'm highly disturbed, if this child is allowed to stay in the general population at school, [b]or moved to another elementary (like they apparently did with the student at Swanson!) and it's all hushed up. [/b]  I cannot imagine how the parent (and child!) must be feeling who were the target of the murder/gun threat.   There is only one answer; it must be crystal clear to all, including to children, that making a weapon or murder threat at school will be handled with the same seriousness as making a threat at an airport.  It will be dealt with swiftly, and with the gravity it deserves.  Elementary school students in Newport News have to have clear backpacks now and walk through metal detectors... never mind that this 6 yr old should have never been allowed to remain in a general population classroom.  And that is the question that matters; will the next violent student be allowed to terrorize his classmates as well?  [/quote]

What do you think should have happened with that Swanson student? Shipped to the island of misfit kids? FWIW, the student is now at my students' school. [/quote]

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