Letter from Arundel High Principal Regarding Rumors
Principal Sharon Stratton said rumors of a planned shooting this Friday at the school are unfounded.
A day after administrators at Old Mill High were forced to respond to rumors about a planned school shooting, officials at Arundel High School responded to similar chatter spreading on social media sites. Arundel High Principal Sharon Stratton said there is no evidence of a genuine threat to the school and urged parents and students to avoid the spread of false rumors. Here is the full text of a letter sent by Stratton to parents: Dear Parents and guardians, It is a sign of the times in which we live, I supposed that in the wake of horrific events like last week's school shooting in Connecticut, a bevy of rumors began to spread through schools and communities. I am writing to you to address one of those rumors, and to reassure you that we …
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TC
10:31 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Tim, Were you aware that more than one thousand students Arundel High stayed home from school on Friday due to the Facebook threat? That is almost HALF of the school's population! The telephonic/email notifications were crazy! My wife and I got 32 emails telling us our son wasn't in school; a friend got 72 emails telling them their son wasn't in school! That's local news the Patch should be … more ›