Three weeks after a teen threatened to kill everyone with an Uzi at Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School, another student threatened harm Wednesday.
But this time, school officials did not wait six days to call police. They called immediately.
Police arrived to investigate allegations that a student vowed “to do something to another student,” charter school spokesman Spear Lancaster said Thursday.
“We?ve decided we?re going to follow the rules right to the T,” Lancaster said. “We are a public school and we have to follow the rules.”
The decision to follow the rules came after The Examiner reported the charter violated a school system policy when it waited six days to report the Uzi threat earlier this month. That student was not arrested but school officials disciplined the teen, officials said.
Anne Arundel police spokesman Sgt. John Gilmer did not know details about the threat but he said the school disciplined the child.
“The parents of the student who was threatened didn?t want charges filed,” he said.
Mosier said that he couldn?t verify whether or not the threat involved the use of a weapon.
“They did what they were supposed to do,” Mosier said, adding that the school notified the school system?s Office of School Security.
According to the school system, any incident that requires a police, fire or ambulance response requires an automatic call-in to the school system?s security office.
Anything that involves a weapon or a threat of a weapon should be reported as soon as practical, Mosier said.
The Hanover school opened three years ago and is the only charter school in Anne Arundel. The school enrolls around 219 students in sixth through ninth grades. It?s currently on probation for requiring too much guidance from the school system to operate.
The school?s probationary status was not used as a reason to investigate why the original gun threat went unreported, Mosier said. An employee has said students have threatened to kill and rape each other in the past.
“Our investigation, as it pertains to how they report incidents, has focused on the gun incident,” Mosier said. The investigation is ongoing.
