A weapon threat made Friday April 24 shook Smile High School to impliment sudden actions in order to protect its students before they returned to school Monday morning. According to the Houston Chonicle, rumors spread that a student allegedly brought a weapon on campus and made sudden threats. Later students were ordered to evacuate the building around 11:30 a.m., and the North Forest police department investigated the incident.
In light of what happened at Virginia Tech last week, it was necessary that the North Forrestschool district take appropriate action. Later North Forest ISD reported that they would take extra precaustion as students returned to classes on Monday, and that students "as an extra precaution will be required to walk through metal detectors." However, the North Forest school district website had no mention of the alleged weapon threat that a student brought the weapon to school, and made threats. It was no where to be found; even on Monday April 30th.
It would seem right to at least alert the public, expecially concerned parents about the scare and what's going on. For a threat such as this two follow not even two weeks after the Virginia Tech, incident, I would think the district would take more precaussion. I would think that the North Forest district would be more careful and at least alert people so that in case something did happen, they could go back and say that they ACTUALLY took precaussions. They would be able to say and prove that they did what they told the media they would do. (Well, at least they could look the least bit concerned on their web site.)
News story:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4756914.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18398911/
North Forrest School district reactions:
Letter to the parents: http://classroom.northforestschools.org/webs/mbsmiley/ayp.htm
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