School Safety Law News for 4/13/12

  • One student’s comment about a classmate — “he’d be the type to bring a gun to school” — morphed via social media into rumors of an actual threat. A police investigation cleared the suspect, but both students and parents are harassing the suspect’s family via Facebook. The school has disciplined two students for the rumors.
  • Oklahoma educators, who found a gun at a middle school, say that the school safety credit goes to a student. He had seen a fellow student with the weapon, while in the restroom, and chose to report it.
  • While three Oregon students were suspended for racist tweets against a fellow student, his mother wants an apology from those involved. Other students helped identify the three students who originally wrote the tweets.