Latest on school threats: IN districts close schools

“We have established communications with law enforcement agencies and are following appropriate protocol”. Officials from Broward County Public Schools in Fort Lauderdale said they also received a threat.

Obama’s speech and the simultaneous school searches and closings Thursday highlight a present conflict in many Americans’ hearts: In the face of terrorism, how can we be both confident and cautious? According to a statement, schools will be open Thursday. The social media post targeted a student, police said.

School officials report the student said he wasn’t serious about the threat sent in a text, but thought his comment would be amusing.

Someone on Facebook was tagging students, threatening violence, and posting for people to “watch the news”.

A normal school day is expected on Thursday, December 17 and parents are encouraged to send their children to their regularly scheduled classes.

On Monday and Wednesday, two threats that included a drawing of a gun and the words “shoot up the school” were found in a boys’ bathroom at Franklin Community High School.

If you do end up trying to, by perhaps, beefing up security, or canceling classes for the day, it won’t matter. There was no specific threat against any high school in particular. Classes were not canceled in Goshen. “We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be sure our campuses are safe”.

At no time were IL students in danger, according to police.

Carranza said part of the reason officials thought the threat a hoax was that it was generic, not even identifying the district by name. Schools opened for the district’s 79,000 students on Thursday. New York’s dismissal of the threat has led to doubts regarding whether Los Angeles make the wrong call-was shutting down school an overreaction?

Meanwhile, an all-clear was given after East Orange Campus High School in New Jersey was evacuated on Thursday following a phoned-in bomb threat.

We will continue working with public safety officials, as this is an ongoing investigation.

Danville said it will resume classes on January 4 after Christmas Break.

“The safety and security of all students is our highest priority”, the statement read.

A spokesperson from the FBI confirms that they have been contacted and they are assisting with the investigation.

Danville Community School Corporation Superintendent Tracey Shafer said the individual making the threats against Danville schools may have also threatened Plainfield schools.