Area School Deals With Bomb Threat

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By WEEK Producer

Story Published: Oct 1, 2009 at 4:49 PM CDT

Story Updated: Oct 1, 2009 at 4:49 PM CDT

School officials in Astoria are taking extra precautions after a handwritten bomb threat was found in the high school on Wednesday.

The threat was immediately reported to police who searched the school, but found nothing.

This morning, as students returned to class, the state bomb unit and Fulton County police swept the building and grounds with a specially trained dog. Staff and students were also searched as they entered the building.

The district says it will continue to take measures ensuring everyone's safety.

Friday, Jan 15 at 12:00 PM Stacy wrote ...

It is hard to believe that ir could happen there but from what I have seen and learned the last 30 yrs it's really not that surprising. I hope you can find out what happened and work with the kids so that it doesn't happen again. I will be thinking of you all.

Tuesday, Oct 6 at 8:46 AM Kendra wrote ...

Insanity again..Ultimately it is a parent's responsibility to ensure the safety of our youth. The Administrators and the police will tell you it is your responsibility to assure children are safe where you let them go. Be it a Friends home or an event, therfore ultimately the Parent's should have been informed and allowed to make their decisions without prejudice remarks. School report card F for failure to respect the parent's authority.. Can anyone say Home School..

Saturday, Oct 3 at 9:54 AM Mother. wrote ...

They should have contacted us when they saw the bomb threat, instead..they continued school for their own convenience. Hmmmm? I made sure i went and got my child, why would someone sit there and watch the clock and see if the school blew up at ten thirty? Not me.

Saturday, Oct 3 at 9:51 AM I picked up my daughter, better safe than sorry! wrote ...

The faculty should of contacted the parents when they found the bomb threat, instead they sent the children to school and parents had to find out from them and other parents! Why risk it? No one is EVER 100% sure, I mean really. Who really thinks it was going to happen? But it wouldn't of been completely crazy if it did. It happens all the time in bigger schools, we would NEVER want to chance something happening to someone we love, so we got them from school. They should have never went.

Friday, Oct 2 at 7:50 PM Mom wrote ...

Alot of the students called their parents, because the teachers had them scared to death!! As well at the police all over. They're kids. What is safe for my child should be for me to decide not the faculty. Notification would have been nice, this might have prevented the rumors!

Friday, Oct 2 at 12:58 PM Linda wrote ...

I have a child in the high school, I feel that the school done the right things, all who disagree with how the situation was handled are the parents who jumped to conclusions and pulled your children out of the school and scared them . The school did NOT FAIL. The school was swept by the police, all is safe. Dont blame the school for being wrong, blame the parents who made a big deal out of it.

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:31 PM Faculty Problems wrote ...

The faculty is in the wrong for keeping this "bomb threat" a secret. Looks like we have to worry about the decisions being made by our school leaders. Ridiculous!

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:55 PM getting old wrote ...

bomb threats are getting a little old now and most of the time they turn out to be nothing. the person(s) who made the bomb threat should be punished.

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:32 PM concerned aunt wrote ...

school should not have been in session! Parents should have been notified immediately!

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:03 PM Mother of a Child wrote ...

Please make sure to include in this report that the school FAILED to notify any of the childrens parents as to what was going on at the school, All parents should have been notified so they could decide whether to send their child into harms way NOT the school!

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