A concerning trend of school threats, both locally and across the nation, has parents asking their school leaders, what can be done.
Tuesday night, parents and leaders from the Liberty Elementary School District came together with the Buckeye Police Department, Goodyear Police Department, and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to talk about school safety.
“We live in a day and age now where it seems these things seem to be very commonplace, so we really want to open those channels of communication,” Superintendent Cort Monroe said. “We’ve seen a rash of things happen in the news in the past two or three weeks, where parents want to feel heard.”
While Monroe said his district hasn’t seen many threats, dozens of online school threats have been made in districts across the state and the Valley, including schools nearby in Buckeye, Phoenix, Maricopa, Glendale, and Surprise.
Last week three teens were arrested for making threats: a 14-year-old student in Surprise, a 13-year-old from a Buckeye elementary school and a 17-year-old Buckeye high school student.