Absences on Thursday were down to 140 at Robertsdale High School after 740 were out on Wednesday. The school has an average of 80 absences a day.
There were 140 students reported absent on Thursday, down from the 740 who missed school on Wednesday and one day after an out-of-state phone threat was placed at the school. The caller, who authorities say is from the northeast, threatened to shoot up the school on Tuesday.“I’m sad to see parents felt like they needed to keep their children at home today,” Superintendent Eddie Tyler said Thursday. “The safest place to be in is in our schools right now. Law enforcement is at the ready.
Tyler added, “Society forgives, for the most part, some of these things individuals just do. Somehow the court system will just forgive it. Sometimes politicians just forgive it. When you deal with a young person who is 15 or 16 years old, they know what they are doing. There needs to be punitive action.”
Tyler said he was disappointed to see 740 students absent on Wednesday, saying that Baldwin County’s schools are “the safest places to be.” He noted there are trained and armed school resource officers placed at each of the county’s school buildings.
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