We were just concerned citizens reaching out to our neighbors, said Piper, a self-described proud member of Tri-County Citizens. Our study revealed that more than 70% of the threats involved shooting and/or bomb threats. That includes opposing COVID-19 mask mandates and stopping loan forgiveness for farmers of color across the United States. School buses have also been the target of terrorist bombings in the Middle East, so it would be wise for school officials to include school bus and transportation facilities in their bomb threat and suspicious device planning and training. We want to again thank students, parents, and families for their understanding and flexibility today. Their primary reason was that they did not see the email until this morning and did not have adequate time to search their buildings to ensure student and staff safety. A message Wisconsin Watch sent to their family went unreturned. Treating each and every threat seriously. Kids are back to their summer activities. Immediately following Columbine, schools across the nation experienced a spike in bomb threats and related incidents. At the Appleton gathering, Berg affably walked the audience through the narrative of Kiels Title IX episode that his group offered media outlets: a simple disagreement about pronoun use spurred a sexual harrassment investigation. Did we cave? Calumet City police spokesperson Sean Howard said someone called Carol Moseley Braun Elementary School Thursday morning to say there was a bomb inside The anti-CRT messages spilled onto the pages of the Tri-County News, Kiels newspaper. Even before the bomb threats, the possibility of violence chilled conversations. School building staff should not report today. Visitors to Hardens business website can purchase a Lets Go Brandon hoodie, a tactical folding knife or a foam throwing star for use in live action role play Hardens hobby. Decisions and protocols on these issues should be determined by school officials and their public safety (police, fire, etc.) Additional elements that are packaged with our story must be labeled. Law enforcement is responding to the scene. Today, Friday, April 14h will be an eLearning day. One pro-censorship speaker conceded that the books were not pornography, but said the library should shield young kids from them. The rhetoric mobilized the groups nearly 200 members. One major issue facing most school districts is whether to evacuate schools on bomb threats. It could take time, but were not stopping.. School board trustee Long said the board followed the districts policies for Title IX complaints, but declined to elaborate, citing confidentiality provisions. He said other officials hadnt spoken either before abruptly ending the call. The Kiel Public Librarys trouble started in November 2021, when a man called police to claim that he spotted pornography on the shelves. A number of high-profile incidents involving bombs and bomb threats took place prior to the 1999 Columbine High School attack showed a trend we identified and trained schools to prepare for at that time: The attack at Columbine High School triggered bomb threats and attention to the need for school and police officials to assess threats versus automatically evacuating as a best practice. Berg confirmed that notes from the music teacher included a handful of incidents that had been left out of WILLs narrative, all of which centered around misuse of the students pronouns. Candidates vowed to keep pornographic materials out of schools.. Ahead of the 2022 spring primaries, the Wisconsin Republican Party sent about $284,000 to county GOP offices statewide, while the Democratic Party of Wisconsin sent just $85,000 to its county parties, according to a Wisconsin Watch analysis. Our spring campaign goal is to reach 100 new or returning members (readers who donate to support our nonprofit newsroom). Since leaving an internship with Wisconsin Watch in 2013, Korans work has appeared in The New York Times, The Appeal, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among others. In the past, Kiels local races generally stayed nonpartisan, with little meddling from state political parties, said Eli Shaver, chair of the Calumet County Democratic Party. We found that 30% of the schools evacuated and 10% closed school, oftentimes unnecessarily doing so, which revealed a need for school threat assessment training. Funkhouser is catching his breath following the bomb scares. It is well built, solid and discreetly located. Instead, he said, it promotes a lifestyle of growing crops, skinning rabbits, cleaning fish or just getting back into small-town rural activities.. The Title IX-related backlash poured gasoline on Kiels political bonfire, but an earlier bullying investigation provided the kindling. Sign up for our free story updates and Friday news roundups. Bodden, who did not respond to requests for comment, wrote that his priorities include banning the (New York Times) 1619 project, Critical Race Theory and any equity-based curriculum for our schools., If we see large-scale involvement of political parties in elections at this level, you are going to run out so many good candidates, said Johannes. Thats right, Steinhardt said when a reporter pointed out the lack of communication from his office. Neighbors grew suspicious of neighbors. This is a concern that should factor into evacuation considerations. Web5:30 PM Calumet Middle School Math and Science Night. All rights reserved. But the one-sided story had already gone viral after a conservative Twitter account posted the name of the school principal involved in investigating the complaint to its 1.3 million followers. Here are statements central Indiana school districts sent to families and staff: Center Grove Schools will be closed on Friday, April 14, 2023with no eLearning due to a bomb threat. In their opinion and ours, the threat is credible enough that we believe the safest path forward is to call for an eLearning day today so that we can have time to assess the situation. All events are canceled. Many who spoke to a reporter requested anonymity and out-of-view meeting spots. But it was only one battle in a larger war. Cloquet High School, Middle School Evacuated After Bomb Threat Police in northern Minnesota responded Wednesday to a bomb threat at Cloquet High School. Some longtime residents remember the Posse Comitatus, a white supremecist paramilitary organization that operated in northeastern Wisconsin and beyond until criminal convictions broke up the group in the 1980s. It provides lots of information, including news from other clubs in the Eastern Ontario Square Dance area, and details about conventions, jamborees, and dances. At Christmas and the end of the dance year we have a pot-luck dinner prior to dancing. Thats just preposterous and frankly, offensive to suggest that families should be blamed for the actions of a third party when all they were doing was publicly defending themselves and calling out what was an egregious misapplication of the law, he said. Box 5079 At the Kiel Picnic, the summers premier event, parents send their kids to the tilt-a-whirl, grab a beer, then make the celebration Wisconsin-official with fried cheese curds from the Future Farmers of America stand. Teachers will communicate with students and their have lessons posted by 10:00 a.m. Only essential staff should report to school, and you will be notified directly if you need to report. Residents peeked out of windows; few ventured into the streets of this northeastern Wisconsin town of 4,000. That included the state GOPs injection of $18,000 in Calumet and Manitowoc Counties, where Kiel is located. The bullied student eventually transferred to a more diverse neighboring school district, where he graduated this spring. Koran holds a BA in Spanish literature and MA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Questions about lesson content or resources should be directed to the classroom teacher.Thank you, and stay safe! (Lianne Milton for Wisconsin Watch). The rationale for this request is that the facility users (teachers, support staff, administrators, etc.) School safety and emergency preparedness guidelines may include strategies such as: Information on school bomb threats and other school emergency preparedness issues is available in Kens latest book,Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning. But in the early days of the pandemic, writer Christopher Rufo sharpened the phrase into a kind of weaponized, catch-all for the woke racial ideologies that progressives back and conservatives scorn. May 15, 2023. Support investigative reporting with a donation of any size today! Since we saw the email last night, we had the advantage of more time to ensure student and staff safety.". None was willing to be identified publicly, citing fears of retaliation amid the violent threats in Kiel. Wisconsin Watch Our sessions accommodate new and veteran dancers, all of whom enjoy the physical and mental workout that comes with square dancing. The library received 18 complaints by May, although seven or eight contained nothing beyond a signature, Davis said. During the school board election, he and his wife Kim became involved with a loosely organized group of parents and citizens named Best for Kids, which Kim describes as a nonpartisan effort to make Kiel more tolerant. We revealed this emerging trend more than five years ago. It made me lose faith in government and policy, in the judicial system, as well as the congressional system.. I dont believe it got out of hand, but it got close, Harden said. But the Wisconsin Republicans are tightening their focus on local politics. Backlash forced him to transfer and upended life for others in town. The final bomb threat came with an ultimatum: Drop the Title IX investigation or much of Kiel would face violence. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. As part of a settlement, the school district hired a consultant to educate staff and students about racism and harassment. A Sun staff report Tewksbury schools were on lockdown for a second straight day after receiving a bomb threat, one district of many across the country to receive I immediately contacted law enforcement. (Lianne Milton for Wisconsin Watch). We found that 30% of the schools evacuated and 10% closed school, oftentimes unnecessarily doing so, which revealed a need for school threat assessment training. If you value news from Wisconsin Watch, make a tax-deductible donation today so we can continue doing statewide investigations that matter to you. It is not the Middle East. It's not long before the new dancer is feeling like an old pro! The towns turmoil offers deeply divided Wisconsin an extreme example of what can happen when partisan misinformation aggravates the resentment and distrust already festering in a community. Your website must include a prominent way to contact you. For that reason, and out of an overabundance of caution, I am calling an e-learning day today, on Friday, April 14th. WSVN-TVSunbeam Television Corp In 2015 we began a new annual tradition by hosting the Boys and Girls Club for a dinner and some dancing after. The standoff resulted in police killing the parent, who had a gun and seven bomb devices as a part of his siege. Members of Tri-County Citizens and other local conservatives fueled the outrage. All kindergarten-8th grade after-school activities and athletics are canceled today. Deputies say he allegedly An irate parent took the deputy superintendent and an associate superintendent of a California education office hostage in late November of 1998. School officials chose to shut down the schools for three days as school and law enforcement officials investigated. Numerous local residents have called Funkhouser a steady, singular voice of leadership throughout the crisis while Mayor Mike Steinhardt and other city officials remained silent. Many teachers and support staff have been advised by school and public safety officials to conduct searches of their area for suspicious items when a bomb threat is received by the school. Some of the communication coming from Mr. Harden around the farmers market seems to thinly veil his political views and motivations, which are extreme and discriminatory in nature, the letter said. Marion Community Schools will be on an e-learning day today. Residents long saw Kiel as a place where families stroll along river banks after grabbing a bite at Dairy Queen. Its not liberal versus conservative. A blanket exemption in that policy appears to give the board broad power in extraordinary circumstances.. The final bomb threat came with an ultimatum: Drop the Title IX investigation by June 3, or the citys utility station, wastewater treatment plant, stores and all roads, would be targeted. But as the school board election approached, challengers began accusing the library of providing pornography to children. Place caller ID on school phones to help identify bomb threat callers. He is 18 years old. Trends Analytics. Ten bombs, fireworks strapped to aerosol cans, forced the closure of a California elementary school. The content of the books was clearly intended, in my opinion, to be educational and informative, not erotic in nature, Funkhouser wrote in a report. We are concerned with the number of schools around the country immediately jumping to evacuations, often by pulling the fire alarm without the fire department knowing that such a procedure is being used for bomb threat evacuation rather than an actual fire. Were the threats keeping our feet to the fire to keep pushing us towards a resolution maybe sooner than later? They never helped him, Rabidoux said. WILL has proved remarkably successful in fighting pandemic restrictions and racial justice efforts while advancing other conservative causes in court. WebOur study revealed that more than 70% of the threats involved shooting and/or bomb threats. 1401 79th Street Causeway A year ago, two weeks ago, I wouldnt have expected any of this. Good morning, Noblesville Schools families. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. If youre already a dancer and new to the area, or just returning to square dancing, email or call to ensure there will be someone to greet you, and come out on Thursday evening. Dance nights are comprised of lessons and dancing what has been taught, and then its practice, practice, practice! But you can publish it with pre-sold ads. We like to visit retirement and long-term care homes and other community events to dance for their entertainment and our well-being, as a Club and as a person! Lianne Milton contributed photography for Wisconsin Watch. CALUMET CITY, IL A bomb threat was called in Thursday to a Calumet City elementary school, forcing an evacuation, according to WLS. A police search of Carol Moseley Braun Elementary School turned up nothing, and students and staff returned to the building mid-day, WLS reported. Read more from WLS. Some schools have put messages on their school phone voice mail directories indicating that calls may be recorded for security purposes. We will provide a more detailed update later. Harden said local conservatives previously lacked an asset like him someone skilled at political messaging, confident enough to livestream for 20 minutes on the dangers of CRT and able to deliver those messages to ears and eyeballs. Lifetime users of Kiels library, victims rights advocates, grandparents and school board members condemned book-banning. Another parent said the children were running and screaming, which frightened her. Using the Facebook group he started, now branded Common Sense Kiel, Harden has excoriated the school district for falling test scores, warned of Marxist indoctrination of students and pushed back the use of self-selected pronouns, which he said creates more gender confusion. WebToday, we received a phone message at Billerica Memorial High School indicating a bomb threat for all schools throughout the district. A Flagler middle school student was arrested after making a bomb threat, deputies say. The following school districts also reported delays/closings Friday: A spokesperson with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office told 13News that not all Johnson County schools received the threat. A January, 1999, explosion in a high school locker in Kansas City sent 11 students to the hospital. Our groundbreaking2015 national study of more than 800 violent school bomb threat and shooting threatstook our research to a higher level by collecting original data and dissecting critical trends and patterns. Berg rejected the suggestion from critics not in the Appleton audience thatWILL and the families of the accused boys fanned the outrage that culminated in bomb threats by going public with their defense. Update by the edhat staff1:30 p.m., December 13, 2022. (Lianne Milton for Wisconsin Watch). High-profile school violence cases and other national incidents, along with easy access to formulas for homemade bombs on the Internet, have contributed to concerns about bomb threats, suspicious devices, and homemade bombs in schools, on school grounds and on school buses. Smoky clouds hung like the pall that had enveloped the town in recent weeks. The threat said that bombs in backpacks would explode in the school and that students would be shot after the explosions, Police Chief Fred Ryan told reporters. He was offering an update on the case at the FreedomProject Academy in Appleton, a private school that says it is rooted firmly in the Judeo-Christian values as promoted in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers. About 50 mostly gray-haired audience members gave him a heros welcome. CALUMET CITY, IL A bomb threat was called in Thursday to a Calumet City elementary school, forcing an evacuation, according to WLS. Harden denies his group is a militia. Berg acknowledged to Wisconsin Watch that WILL withheld some details from the narrative it pushed to the media, including hyper-partisan juggernauts Newsmax and Fox News Laura Ingraham. Police come over here, and its like they have no system, said one parent. Nothing suspicious was located in Shenandoah School Corporation buildings during a search, Sproles said. The threat was not written in English, Sproles said, and translated to: "One of your schools has a bomb inside. The complaint involved two books. More than 20 people offered public comments; only two supported limiting access to books. Absolutely not, we did not cave. This is Kiel against hate, Kim Konen said. In 2022, nearly every local race became partisan. The investigation violated the boys right to free speech, he argued. Several of its recent lawsuits target protections for transgender students, including challenging Madison Metropolitan School Districts allowance of students to choose their pronouns without informing parents. Eight boys confessed to making three homemade bombs, two of which were placed at a Minnesota elementary school. Managing School Bomb Threats, Suspicious Packages and Evacuation Issues Rabidoux said conflict between her son and the transgender student started in November 2021 and lasted through April, and the teachers notes reflected coversations spanning various days. I could say to classmates of mine, you must address me as handsome. Otherwise, you are harassing me. (Lianne Milton for Wisconsin Watch). Families have returned to their riverbank strolls. The Washington County Sheriffs Office says they believe a man in Thomson, Georgia is responsible for allegedly calling in multiple bomb threats. INDIANAPOLIS Several dozen central Indiana school districts canceled in-person learning Friday, April 14, after a bomb threat was emailed to the districts, There is ample parking in the rear of the Church. Search this area. For Draxler, the vote to keep the books represented a larger victory for the city. Still, all threats must be treated seriously and thoroughly investigated and managed. Crime Map for Calumet City, IL. The books supporters packed the library basement for that meeting, by far outnumbering complainants. One major issue facing most school districts is whether to evacuate schools on bomb threats. Many school bomb threats have been made by students seeking to disrupt the school day and to get out of school. Still, all threats must be treated seriously and thoroughly investigated and managed. She acknowledged that one of the boys once lashed out and threw food at the transgender student none of which was revealed in initial media interviews. Funkhouser confirmed WILLs cooperation during the police investigation. -- to which we bring finger foods. Many schools across the nation do not automatically evacuate their schools upon receiving a bomb threat. Kiels paralysis in late May and early June followed a descent into incivility that shares elements of school board fights across the country fueled by a cocktail of political tribalism, COVID-19 anxiety, false claims of election fraud and racial tensions following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. The weaponization of CRT had worked making a faction in Kiel more concerned about a manufactured threat than the documented bullying of a Black student.
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