High Point Elementary students return to classes Friday after bomb threat

Teachers at High Point Elementary School prior to the beginning of the school year Provided by Fulton County Schools High Point Elementary School students returned to classes on Aug a day after being evacuated from the school after an emailed bomb threat Fulton County Schools spokesperson Brian Noyes stated Rough Draft Atlanta that staff and students returned to normal operations at the school located at Greenland Road NE in Sandy Springs A encouragement club was at High Point for any students or staff who needed assistance or counseling Noyes mentioned Fulton County Police coordinated with Sandy Springs Police to investigate The building was swept and cleared before allowing students and staff to return this morning The analysis is ongoing On Thursday Aug High Point students were taken by bus a mile away to Ridgeview Charter Middle School at S Trimble Rd after the school received the email threat Noyes commented Parents were able to pick their children up from there Bus riders and day care students were dismissed from Ridgeview Parents received email and text notifications throughout the day on Aug about the case All scholars were evacuated safely transported to Ridgeview MS and reunited with their families without happening High Point Elementary Principal Danielle Miller declared in a final email message to parents on Thursday We worked closely with Fulton County Schools Police and the Sandy Springs Police Department and the building has been fully cleared School will resume on a normal schedule on the morrow The Georgia Bureau of Analysis GBI and the FBI s Atlanta office are analyzing a series online threats that have happened over the past insufficient days the Atlanta Journal-Constitution released On Wednesday a Children s Healthcare of Atlanta spokesperson stated its Hughes Spalding hospital in downtown Atlanta also received a bomb threat around a m Nothing was revealed Mercer University in Macon ordered students to shelter in place after Bibb County s center received a threatening call at approximately the same time on Wednesday the AJC broadcasted Nothing was uncovered after a sweep of the campus And a day earlier Central Georgia Technical College was put in lockdown after a call about an working shooter on its campus That was also declared a hoax We are aware of contemporary swatting incidents involving a number of colleges and entities throughout the state of Georgia and are working with our law enforcement partners FBI Atlanta posted on its Facebook page The FBI is seeing an increase in swatting events across the country and we take expected hoax threats very seriously because it puts innocent people at jeopardy The post High Point Elementary students return to classes Friday after bomb threat appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta