Kelly Road Secondary Closed in Wake of Threat

Thursday, June 15, 2006 09:03 AM

Kelly Road Staff stand on the corner, to ensure no one enters the school property

Between 900 to 1,000 students at Kelly Road Secondary in Prince George have an unscheduled day off today as the school was shut down in the wake of a threat.

District 57 School Superintendent Dick Chambers says it is not uncommon for threats to be made at this time of the year, however, in this particular case, the threat was made to a certain individual, who called police in fear they were the intended victim. Police say the caller, a young male, told police there had been a discussion yesterday and a fellow student would be heading to the school today with a bomb.

School buses were turned around as students were sent home.

Chambers said while RCMP are still checking on the validity of the threat, the School District opted to be extra cautious because of the specifics of the threat. ""The RCMP will do their investigation" says Chambers, "They’ve got some leads and they are on them right now. We would anticipate we will get the all clear later on today and will be back to school tomorrow."

Certainly there will be consequences. Chambers says once the RCMP have finished their investigation there will be consequences both within the School system and possibly criminal charges.

Ther will be a full sweep of the school done later this morning and Chambers says information will be released later today on the status of classes for tomorrow.

Police advise a number of members with the Major Crimes Unit are following up on the investigation and are reviewing the call that was made to 9-1-1.

While police were on scene investigating the threat, they were called around the corner to look at the remains of a fire on a street about a block away from Kelly Road, in front of Heather Park Middle school.

The photo at right shows the burned patch of asphalt that raised some concern

Police sealed off the area but as it turns out, some young people had torched a vehicle on that site over night, and that incident was not related to the matter facing Kelly Road Secondary this morning.

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Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 09:03 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: thereasonableman on June 15 2006 11:02 AM

Do any of these "young people" have parents ? For clarification, what I mean is parents that are not currently comatose and on life support.

Posted by: owl on June 15 2006 12:13 PM

Almost sounds as if torching vehicles is a common event.

Bomb threats at schools have been around for decades. Of course these dys that has been re-defined as terrorism I suppose.

Posted by: trueblue2 on June 15 2006 12:48 PM

It is a sad day when this kind of thing happens in any community, and of course especially when it happens in our own community. Wasn;t it just two weeks ago that another Northern BC highschooler made threats - - in Williams Lake I think.
The tragedy is that too many people refuse to acknowledge that it is not only bad parenting that contributes to the problem. Unfortunately it is a reflection of the disturbing trend in society itself. Check out the movies, check out the video games, the music, television, pop culture. Someti=mes even the best parenting in the world can't make up for the evil around us.

Posted by: Marty on June 15 2006 6:03 PM

Just be glad it was a false alarm, and not really a bomb in the school.

How the heck can anyone be crazy enough to bomb any innocent people anywhere?
Wow this is a messed up world.

Posted by: thereasonableman on June 15 2006 7:08 PM

I can assure you that pop culture is not even registerable on the scale of causation. Look more to poor parenting, lack of supervision, a progressively more complacent society, increasing social acceptance of disobedience of laws (teachers set a good example of this recently), and mix that all up very smoothly with any manner of personality flaws, needs left unmet, poor treatment by society in some respect, and maybe even add a little bit of some kind of intellectual dysfunction.
That's your recipe for kids like that. One thing we can do is stop watching and start intervening. Even if it is only to decry someone's behavior or actions.
Set boundaries and reiterate them, people usually do find the line eventually.

Posted by: owl on June 15 2006 11:35 PM

How many missed these words in the above report: "District 57 School Superintendent Dick Chambers says it is not uncommon for threats to be made at this time of the year."

It has been my experience that such threats were made in the early 60's as well. Two or three times a year we would clear out the school. It was typically identified as a "fire-drill", which also took place. So these things are not new.

Here is a link to school archival records for a HS in Albany New York.

Scroll about halfway down to "Box 6 Folder" and its contents. The 12th item down identifying an item as "Fire Drill/Bomb Threat, Cases and Procedures, 1970-71"

http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/ua659.htm

So, if you want to look at causation, don't bother looking at today's society to find the answer, since it has been happening for at least two generations.

You might want to look at opportunity as once of the causes. For example, access to phones and the opportunity for anonymity they create.