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It’s been anything but a typical school week for El Camino High student Aleysha Wright.
“When I walked in the door my dad said, ‘Tomorrow, you’re not going to go to school,’ and me, I was just questioning why and he said, ‘because there was a threat of a school shooting,'” Wright, 13, told FOX40.
“Don’t do it. To me, it’s ridiculous. If that’s what you have to do to get a day off, don’t go to school,” Brandon McDonald, Aleysha’s father, said Wednesday.
McDonald and his daughter are trying to cope with the fifth in a string of threats to hit the San Juan Unified School District.
The one affecting them targeted Aleysha’s school, El Camino High.
The threat there was promised for Friday but her parents are keeping her home until next Monday just to be safe.
Word of this threat spreading just as Sheriff’s deputies arrest a 14-year-old girl for a felony count of making a criminal threat against Bella Vista.
All the threats have been similar, written or left in bathroom stalls and promising the kind of violence that schools just can’t ignore.
“It’s really unfortunate that we have a young woman taken off one of our campuses in handcuffs. Nobody likes to see that,” San Juan Unified spokesperson Kim Minugh said. “It’s been an emotional experience for the principal there and her staff, but unfortunately the situation merits a serious response.”
