One San Jose high school is stepping up its safety measures following threats to students last year. Parents, teachers and officials hope the improvements will be adopted by other schools in the district.
Willow Glen High School’s school site council updated its safety plan after a series of incidents, including an arrest of a Willow Glen High School student who walked on campus armed with a loaded ghost gun and knife. Before that, a Hoover Middle School student was caught with a loaded firearm and an Abraham Lincoln High School student was arrested after threatening on social media to shoot classmates with an assault rifle.
The incidents rocked the San Jose Unified School District last spring and were the impetus for the safety plan, which the parents developed and launched.
The plan, now in place, is designed to address student accountability, attendance, review behavioral threat assessments and response protocols. School leaders say they’re seeing results.
