Parents alert police- when district fails to respond.

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<p>This school is one of the best in the district. But messages to the school vice principal regarding threats against a student supposedly never reached him.
The student was murdered.</p>

<p>Now another top high school, just a few miles from the first, also is failing to put students safety first. When a girl ( and others) were threatened multiple times , in school, the boy was sent home but the police were not notified by the school.
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<p>Now if someone was using racist language, or if they brought what obviously was a squirt gun to school, the district would be right on it, but death threats?</p>

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<p>Inexcusable. And <em>SO</em> completely tragic. </p>

<p>When my son was a h.s. sophomore, his then g.f. received an IM from someone in their school that said, “I’m hitler on him. You’ll never find the body.”</p>

<p>Neither the school, NOR the police considered this a threat.</p>

<p>But yes, if an elementary-aged kid holds a chicken nugget up and says, “Bang, bang!” they’re all over that with a lengthy suspension.</p>

<p>Insanity.</p>

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<p>What this shows me is its all about "image’ for those "best schools…not reality, oh we don’t have drugs or drinking problems, we jsut brush all that stuff under the rug</p>

<p>There was a concern on the Fordham thread about the high rate of drinking, er, the high reported cases of getting busted for drinking</p>

<p>What is boiled down to was that Fordham enforces its rules and cracks down on underage drinking more often that schools that jsut let things slide, so the drinking may be the same, but one school tries to look better by ignoring the rule breaking, so their stats look pretty, while another school will have “terrible” stats but is actually trying to take care of things</p>

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<p>what really bothers me is that the boy supposedly found out what the other students statement said.
We aren’t in the school, so I only know what I read in the paper- although it is our neighborhood school & it is a relatively “normal” neighborhood-however, “changing” - increased racial and economic diversity- ( which means- people like us- who moved here 24 years ago- could *never *afford it now), increased density ( by a lot).
Which I think increases tensions in general.
But our experience with the district and with previous school is that lack of communication/lack of accountability, is widespread.</p>