Fountainbleau High School teenagers and teachers have spent the week evacuating classrooms after multiple threats occured.

St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said students left notes and made verbal threats of death and destruction, “In today’s society when you make a threat to explode a bomb in a school that it will be taken incredibly serious and we are very successful in investigating these cases and making arrests.”
 
With four arrests so far and a fifth on the way Sheriff Strain had this warning for anyone thinking of making a threat at a school, “If you believe this is trivial, a child who is arrested for terrorizing can face up to 15-thousand dollars for fines and up to 15 years in jail.”
 
School leaders say they have been sending home notes and calling parents after each incident but say there’s only so much they can do to prevent the threats.

Superintendent Gayle Sloan is now asking parents to take on an assignment this weekend, to sit down with their teenagers, “Talk to your young people, make sure they understand that they be mindful of the serious consequences that these kinds of actions can bring forth.”

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