Attendance affected by threat at I.V.
Only 100 students of 430 attended Illinois Valley High School on Thursday, Oct. 11, apparently because of graffiti in a girls restroom reading, “Bomb on October 11 - no joke.”
Principal JoAnn Bethany said that the writing on a stall wall was found on Friday, Oct. 5.
“Previous to this,” Bethany said in part in a Monday, Oct. 8 letter to students and parents, “we had been having some issues of vandalism in the restrooms where students are using permanent markers to write inappropriate things.”
She noted that as Friday, Oct. 12 was a holiday for students, “a student may well have been thinking about how to extend that to a four-day weekend.”
Bethany noted in her Oct. 8 letter, “I sincerely do not believe that there will be a bomb at school on Thursday (Oct. 11). However, we will be proactive about this threat.” Three Rivers School District staff and Josephine County Sheriff’s Office personnel were present to monitor the day.
Parents were given the option of keeping their children at home on the 11th. Many made the choice for absence.
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