Only around a third of students attended classes on September 19 , 2014 , after principal Bill Atterberry emailed parents alerting of a possible terrorist threat . Atterberry wrote in his September 18 email : " This afternoon , we received a call from an upset parent who said that he was ' coming down tomorrow and it ’s going to be like a Columbine situation . ' " The parent , Orlando Johnson , clarified that he wanted to know why his 14-year-old son had missed 30 days of school and told '' The Record '' that his exact question to school staff was : " Would you want the school to be like a Columbine , I get a phone call that my kid is dead ? " In November 2017 , a widely circulated cell phone video showed a Bear Creek biology teacher asking a student to leave class for being disruptive , attempting to take the student by the arm , and finally dragging the student by his backpack out of the classroom . The student 's father began to seek legal recourse
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