Friday, November 19, 1999
Another bomb threat closes school
Live Oaks says it had no choice
BY TOM O'NEILL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MIAMI TOWNSHIP — For the second consecutive day, an anonymous bomb threat forced cancellation of school in Clermont County.
One day after 2,400 students at Glen Este High School and Junior High were sent home following a phoned-in bomb threat, a similar call came to Live Oaks Career Development Campus.
The vocational school has 655 students in grades 11 and 12, but since the threat was called in at 7:45 a.m. — 15 minutes before school was to begin — most of the students had not arrived.
The school draws from 10 area districts and many students drive. Many students were in the parking lot when the call came.
Dozens of faculty members and early-arriving students were evacuated.
No bomb was found.
The students were sent home for the day. School is expected to resume this morning.
“You have to evacuate,” said Becky Beckstedt, media coordinator for the school and head of the school's safety task force. “As awful as all of this is, we're really doing a better job of working with our staff and students in this. We've always had plans in place, but now, you have to be cautious.”
That was the tenor of comments from Glen Este officials Wednesday, following an anonymous bomb threat phoned to the Union Township school during second period.
The bomb threat, which also prompted evacuation of the adjacent junior high, was particularly problematic because so many of its students don't drive.
Glen Este officials bussed some students to nearby Clough Pike Elementary. Superintendent Michael Ward said Wednesday he was concerned with balancing the danger of sending kids home with the danger of not doing so.
It was a predicament Live Oaks faced Thursday.
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