article_snippet.sent: The Ohio-based National School Safety and Security Services reviewed more than 800 school threats covered in the media during the first half of the 2014-15 academic yearthe 2014-15 academic year.
article_snippet.sent: Worrying trend: In this January 13, 2014 photo, students pass by Seven Lakes High School after being evacuated for the day after a bomb squad was called to remove a potentially explosive device .
article_snippet.sent: In many cases, swift action is taken with lockdowns and evacuations.
article_snippet.sent: Last fall, Lakota Middle School in Federal Way, Washington, was placed in lockdown and police responded after an email purportedly from the Islamic State group demanded ransom money and threatened to 'shoot and kill' every American, according to a police report.
article_snippet.sent: In Michigan, Superintendent Timothy Stein of the Flushing Community Schools wrote to parents in December informing parents about a posting on Afterschool that said, 'Bringing a Gun to School.'
article_snippet.sent: a posting on Afterschool that said, 'Bringing a Gun to School had been brought to the high school principal's attention by a text message; police quickly determined that it was not a credible threat. '
article_snippet.sent: Every threat has to be taken seriously even though in most cases the called-in danger is not real, said David Pennington, superintendent of schools in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and president of the AASA School Superintendents Association.
article_snippet.sent: Mindful of past school shootings, past school shootings are demanding that children be pulled out of school even as school and law enforcement officials investigate. '
article_snippet.sent: The security of people has been greatly eroded in this country, as you know, just through awful things that have happened,' said Mark Davidson, deputy superintendent at the Federal Way Public Schools.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Ohio-based National School Safety and Security Services reviewed more than 800 school threats covered in the media during the first half of the 2014-15 academic year .
  