How should students identified as a threat to school safety be handled?
Well, first there needs to be a comprehensive threat assessment program in the school, which includes a multi-disciplinary approach to investigating any type of threat. That threat assessment team should consist of mental health, law enforcement, public health, a school administrator, a teacher, and anyone else in the school that's vital to that child's learning. Any threat should be investigated thoroughly. A threat assessment team should not only investigate the threat, but should also talk to the child, that maybe they made the threat too, or anyone around that student that may have heard the threat. But it is very, very important that each and every threat is investigated and also followed up.