By Patric Hedlund, TME

Is My Child Safe?

On September 21, 2010, a Frazier Mountain High School senior from a good family with six children had an emotional conversation on Facebook with the girl who had broken up with him. He threatened he would hurt himself if she did not do what he wanted. He was jealous of a friend of hers from the high school drumline. He didn’t know the boy, but he ranted. Then he wrote a threat against the other student. “I will kill Sean,” he wrote, “just because I can.”

The angry teen’s family had guns in their home. The girl called…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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In 2010 (left) an angry parent, whose son’s life was threatened by another student with access to firearms, accused El Tejon Unified School District of putting its head in the sand. Today the schools’ responses to threats have changed, Superintendent Rod Wallace (r) said last week.

A parent’s angry cartoon against ETUSD in 2010

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