About 1,000 Arlington High acceptance were absent Monday afterwards a cutting blackmail the Shelby County Sheriff's Office did not accede aboveboard but acquired drive through amusing media over the weekend, admiral said.
The absences — about 50 percent of the school's acceptance compared to 5 percent on a accustomed day — came afterwards a blackmail of a cutting at the academy appeared on a bath bank added than a anniversary ago, Tammy Mason, administrator of Arlington Community Schools, said Monday.
The academy has an acceptance of 2,044 and is the centerpiece of the town's academy commune that opened for its countdown appellation in August.
At some point in the aftermost anniversary to 10 days, a apprentice notified a academy ability administrator about the threat.
"Someone wrote on the boys bath wall: 'I'm cutting up the skool Sept. 22, 2014. Good Luk,' " Shelby County Sheriff's agent Chip Washington said, acquainted the words "school" and "luck" were misspelled.
Officials accept not bent who was amenable for the agenda and the analysis continues. If caught, the apprentice amenable could face a 180-day suspension, in accession to any accuse by the Sheriff's Office.
School and sheriff's administration admiral initially planned not to advance the threat. Amusing media acquired the commune to abode the amount with a account Sunday night afterwards several sites started discussing the blackmail over the weekend. Some posters were analytical of the abridgement of advice appear by the Arlington district, adage parents adapted to apperceive if their adolescent was in danger.
"Our accommodation not to acquaint parents was not based on amusing media, but on advice we had received," Mason said, apropos to an analysis by the Sheriff's Office.
"I appetite to accomplish it bright that amusing media does not behest what our plan of activity is," she said, abacus the accommodation was based on facts they obtained.
The actuality that account advance about the blackmail baffled the district's plan to not accommodate acceptance to it by publicizing it. Mason said if the commune anticipation "it all-important to shut bottomward our school, we would accept done that."
"A assurance was fabricated not to actualize any disproportionate agitation and accelerate out notification of the threat," Mason said.
Mason said those who did not appear classes Monday will accept an absolved absence.
As for Tuesday, "back to normal," she said. "Back to normal."
Title : Threat of cutting leaves Arlington High about bisected full
Description : About 1,000 Arlington High acceptance were absent Monday afterwards a cutting blackmail the Shelby County Sheriff's Office did not acc...