Parents and a community are outraged after a student who made threats to shoot up a school in the East Bay last year is back in the classroom at another school in their district–and they want him out.
Parents say their kids don’t feel safe, and they are demanding the district take action.
In Pleasant Hill on Monday night, the school district held a meeting for parents to voice their concerns.
It was a crowded room on Monday with parents using public comment to pressure the Mt. Diablo School District to expel one student from Sequoia Middle School and the district.
Parents say the 13-year-old was the same student that was arrested for threatening to shoot 30 students at Valley View Middle School in June.
Many of the people speaking out on Monday night say their children are afraid to go to school.
Although the student was cleared and not arrested, parents fear a threat to cause harm is more than enough evidence to get that individual help and remove him from the school district.
One parent started a petition a week ago to get the child kicked out. They now have over a thousand signatures.
Not everyone there agrees with this, but the woman who started the petition says she isn’t taking any chances.
The moment she found out her son had classes with that student, she removed him from Sequoia Middle School.
This was not on Monday night’s agenda, but most of the people in the packed room were there to talk about Sequoia High School.
Parents are pushing to get this item on the agenda for the next session in September.
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