The Uvalde tragedy left students, parents and staff more willing to relay their suspicions...
On the afternoon of Dec. 1, the safety and security committee for Judson Independent School District held its quarterly meeting in a district office boardroom.Police had been told of a student with a gun and shots fired in the gymnasium. That turned out to be false, but at the time, Judson ISD’s new director for safety and security, Jesus Hernandez, could only say he was aware of it and had “all the right people” working on it.
Asked for numbers, officials at many San Antonio-area school districts have declined to say how many lockdowns their campuses endured this year or what triggered them — actual threats or dangerous situations, false rumors reported to the authorities in good faith or outright hoaxes.collected data on threats to area schools, including hoaxes, that added up to 202 incidents in 2022, more than double the 79 recorded in 2021.
But parents who took to Facebook and other social media repeated a confusing mix of information from their students’ texts and online chatter. The note didn’t mention what emerged later: An “identified individual” had been suspected of carrying a weapon but was searched and none was found, according to a summary later released by the school district’s communications team. Versions of that story were soon circulating on social media.
Students in and around San Antonio, including in younger elementary grades, feel an increased responsibility to report something when they are concerned, several school officials said. , the district’s police chief, Johnny Reyes, said, including reports — unconfirmed — of a man seen near Hillcrest Elementary School carrying a machine gun.
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