Friday, October 20, 2000
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Friday, October 20, 2000 |
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Principals given discretion in bomb threats By JOHN THOMPSON Coweta schools will no longer be evacuated after every bomb threat. That was the verdict Monday night when the Coweta County Board of Education passed a new policy concerning bomb threats. So far this year, the school system has been inundated with phony bomb threats. The principals at the various schools would evacuate the buildings and nothing would be found. "We've lost a lot of instructional time. We had to do something," said Superintendent of Education Richard Brooks. The new policy will now allow the principals the option of not evacuating the schools or not. Brooks said all the principals in the school system will attend training sponsored by the Georgia Emergency Management Association and the FBI to give them guidelines on when to evacuate the building. Brooks added that it's almost more dangerous to evacuate the buildings. "In the Arkansas school shooting, you had a student pull the fire alarm to get everybody outside, so the shooting could start," he said. Although the policy was adopted, Brooks said the schools will continue to be evacuated until all the training is completed.
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