A West Kelowna parent says she has heard positive feedback from other parents for her decision to post a threat of violence against Mount Boucherie Secondary students on social media.
Nicole Day said she first heard of the threat from her son while driving him home from his baseball practice late Wednesday afternoon.
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It left both of them wondering if he should go to school today or Friday.
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Day also contacted the school principal and received a School Messenger email service response saying students had alerted school officials to the threat and it was being investigated.
Other parents contacted the RCMP directly, while word also circulated among school staff and trustees at the board of education meeting on Wednesday.
By the time the meeting ended, Central Okanagan Public Schools Superintendent/CEO Kevin Kaardal was fielding inquiries from local media about the threat.
Day said she felt obligated to alert other parents to what she had learned from her son.
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Day said she and her husband had a discussion Wednesday night about whether or not to allow their sons to attend school Thursday or Friday, and she says other parents likely had similar conversations.
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Those protocols include alerting the RCMP and activating the school violence crisis response team, which works with Safe Schools B.C., to investigate the threat.
Kaardal said the level of supervision at the school this week has been intensified and West Kelowna RCMP will have a presence at the school site Friday.
While there are not video cameras in school bathrooms, Kaardal said the school district tends to get to the bottom of such incidents and identify the perpetrator.
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