en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 04:58:09 GMT 15 By Mary Pharris
Last Friday, administrators received an anonymous call informing them that a student had a gun on campus. Principles quickly resolved the potentially dangerous situation, and are ensuring the school will remain safe. “Some liberal judge will slap them on the wrist and let them go. Probation probably,” Principal Rodney Cavness said. “I’m kind of irritated with the District Attorney’s office. The DAs I think pushes for it harder, but I don’t know if the judges or jury hear it. Those people, they deserve jail time for endangering 2400 kids.” After receiving the anonymous tip, Assistant Principal Jesse Kibbles and Officer Hobbs and Officer Watson of the Beaumont Police Department called the ninth grader out of class and preceded to search his locker, where they found a 32 caliber handgun Cavness said. The boy was then questioned and taken into custody, as well as expelled from school. The boy claimed be brought the firearm to show friends, and now faces criminal charges. “You have to have a relationship with the kids and the parents and the community, such that they feel confident coming and talking to you when they think there’s going to be something like that taking place and that’s what happened this time,” Cavness said. In order to prevent a serious incident from occurring Cavness stressed that communication is necessary. Also, to further campus security administrators in cooperation with BPD will hold random locker searches for weapons and narcotic. If they are found proper investigation will ensue and that student faces Pathways, expulsion, and criminal charges. “We’ve got measures in place to prevent that (school shooting). The big thing here is we will not put our heads in the sand and try to tell people we don’t have problems here,” Cavness said. “We do have issues here, and we’ve got to stay on top of them.” ]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:00:00 GMT