NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say all schools in Nashua will be closed Monday due to a threat of violence directed toward two schools in the district.
A Nashua Police Department lieutenant says a school administrator received the threat via email on Sunday. That administrator contacted police.
School district Superintendent Mark Conrad said in a statement that students and staff atNashua High School North and Nashua High School South were threatened with harm.
The police department, school administration and state and federal agencies are working to determine the credibility of the threat.
Conrad says the district is being “cautious” and schools will be closed out of safety.
Lieutenant Kerry Baxter says schools in the district will have extra patrols on Monday.
An investigation is ongoing.
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This is really getting ridiculous.
Back in my day, it at least cost the perpetrator 25 cents for a pay-phone call to get school closed.
Now they just send an essentially-free e-mail.
Look, we’ve got to be smarter about this stuff. Quit rewarding all of these threats. Scan the schools, or hold classes in alternate locations. That’s how to stop it.
Me too. We had numerous school-emptying bomb threats, often on warm sunny days for some reason. Eventually they just had the teachers look around the classroom. No packages that didn’t belong? Then fine, class goes on.
Has there ever been a single episode of school violence ever that was preceded by a threatening phone call?
The teachers could hold pop quizzes in the alternate locations.
If I were a wearer of tinfoil hats, I would say that the overreaction creates a perfect opening for mandating intrusive surveillance of students. Because education is so important, and hoaxes can’t be deterred without, say, installing keyloggers on the phones and computers of everyone under 18. I bet there are courts that would go for that.