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Student suspended after mentioning pipe-bomb plan
When a 13-year-old student told his teacher that he planned to bring a pipe bomb to Campbell Middle School three days after the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., no one knew if the teenager was serious, and no one waited to find out. The teacher phoned the Campbell Police immediately.
According to the CPD's watch commander's log, the student revealed his intent to a teacher on April 23 at 9:45 a.m. Soon after, the police arrived at the school along with the student's mom. The juvenile was cited and suspended from school pending expulsion.
Campbell Middle School principal Joe Pacheco says that these kinds of incidents have been happening at a number of schools since the shooting in Littleton.
"Since the tragedy, a number of schools have experienced kids who are playing jokes or making comments in jest," Pacheco says. "Each school has to ascertain in each individual case whether this was an angry kid or the kid was just saying this."
--Cecily Barnes
Educators call for a community meeting in wake of Littleton
Campbell Middle School will host a community meeting on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss student safety within the Campbell Union School District. An eight-person panel has been arranged to address the audience, and answer questions. Panel members include Campbell Police Chief David Gullo, San Jose Police Chief Bill Lansdowne, a school principal, a clinical psychologist, a school counselor, a teacher and two middle-school students. Anyone interested is invited to attend. The meeting is not limited just to parents and students.
"The focus is looking at stuff that all of us can do, because the schools can't do this alone," says Janeen Cassidy, assistant to superintendent Marcia Plumleigh. "This is a shared responsibility between parents, schools and the communities where students live."
The meeting will begin with a five-minute presentation from panel members and move into a discussion and question-and-answer period.
"Hopefully from this we'll be able to come up with some real good strategies for how students and schools can work closely together around student safety on campus," says Campbell Middle School principal Joe Pacheco.
--Cecily Barnes
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Campbell, California
