(TNS) — School is one of the places students should feel safest, but that hasn’t been the case recently for some Lehigh Valley students as repeated violent threats have been directed at schools in the region.
Throughout the last couple weeks, unsubstantiated threats were made against Allentown schools, as well as Lehigh Career & Technical Institute, using Safe2Say, a state-run reporting system. Following the threats, students and parents are on edge, and administrators are frustrated with the misuse of the anonymous tip line.
“We were all at a very high alarm level. Nobody takes any threat lightly,” Dieruff High School Principal Michael Makhoul said. “We’re going to respond and treat everything as a viable threat until deemed otherwise.”
After a school shooting threat and additional tips of violence, Dieruff went into lockdown and subsequently dismissed students Nov. 10.
The following Monday, Dieruff went into lockdown again after another tip of a potential shooting and violence. Two other ASD schools also went into lockdowns after tips of a bomb threat and potential shooting. Lockdowns were lifted later that day.
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