Post by IAMCAPER on Dec 11, 2006 10:33:26 GMT -4
Sydney Academy is reminding students of the serious consequences of bomb threats following several incidents at the high school.
School principal Kevin Deveaux is asking teachers to talk to students about how bomb threats disrupt the school, raise anxieties and can result in criminal charges.
“For the entire student body, it disrupts the educational process, and the other part is children start to become concerned for their safety, that there might be some kind of real threat,” he said.
“It creates a feeling among our students that things aren’t safe.”
Schools in the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board follow a bomb threat protocol that includes evacuating the school, calling police, fire department and school board central administration and staying out of the building until they get the all-clear.
Deveaux couldn’t say why someone would make a bomb threat against a school.
“I really don’t know but I would say it would depend on the individual,” he said. “They could have a myriad of reasons for doing something that doesn’t hold much sense to the general person.”
He was pleased that charges have been laid in one of the bomb threats.
Police constable Dave MacGillivary confirmed a student at Sydney Academy has been charged as a young offender in connection with a bomb threat that led to an evacuation at the school on Nov. 29.
Police are investigating another bomb threat at Sydney Academy on Monday, he said.
The Cape Breton Regional Police received reports of eight bomb threats so far this year, three last year and 18 in 2004, many of which involved call centres, he said.
Spokesman Ambrose White said as a rough estimate, the school board could get as many as five bomb threats in a given year, none of which has ever involved a real bomb.
It’s junior high schools and high schools that are targeted, he said.
White, co-ordinator of school services, said the bomb threats at Sydney Academy put 1,000 people out on the street, including students with special needs.
“It’s a great inconvenience for them,” he said.
Bomb threats can also disrupt bus schedules which may affect students at another school.
School principal Kevin Deveaux is asking teachers to talk to students about how bomb threats disrupt the school, raise anxieties and can result in criminal charges.
“For the entire student body, it disrupts the educational process, and the other part is children start to become concerned for their safety, that there might be some kind of real threat,” he said.
“It creates a feeling among our students that things aren’t safe.”
Schools in the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board follow a bomb threat protocol that includes evacuating the school, calling police, fire department and school board central administration and staying out of the building until they get the all-clear.
Deveaux couldn’t say why someone would make a bomb threat against a school.
“I really don’t know but I would say it would depend on the individual,” he said. “They could have a myriad of reasons for doing something that doesn’t hold much sense to the general person.”
He was pleased that charges have been laid in one of the bomb threats.
Police constable Dave MacGillivary confirmed a student at Sydney Academy has been charged as a young offender in connection with a bomb threat that led to an evacuation at the school on Nov. 29.
Police are investigating another bomb threat at Sydney Academy on Monday, he said.
The Cape Breton Regional Police received reports of eight bomb threats so far this year, three last year and 18 in 2004, many of which involved call centres, he said.
Spokesman Ambrose White said as a rough estimate, the school board could get as many as five bomb threats in a given year, none of which has ever involved a real bomb.
It’s junior high schools and high schools that are targeted, he said.
White, co-ordinator of school services, said the bomb threats at Sydney Academy put 1,000 people out on the street, including students with special needs.
“It’s a great inconvenience for them,” he said.
Bomb threats can also disrupt bus schedules which may affect students at another school.