On Tuesday, March 12, Mercer Middle School students were escorted from their bus stops to Goshen Post Elementary School due to a bomb threat. Students were instructed to stay inside the busses in the Goshen Post parking lot from 8:10am to 10:30am. According to Mercer student, Dylan Munchel, students were passed out and crying for the entirety of the wait. Parents were also outside the busses in the parking lot of Goshen, screaming at administrative staff and teachers to let their children off the bus.
“Parents got into screaming fights with the teachers, trying to pick their kids up,” Dylan Munchel, eighth grader, said. “Kids were running off the busses and a girl passed out.”
The organization of the school day is what really frustrated parents, especially with teachers not going in. Some teachers didn’t show up to school because they were concerned about the rumors and worried that the threat could be true.
“My math teacher sent out an email saying how she won’t be attending school,” Munchel said, “simply because of the rumors.”
Most parents picked up their kids when the kids were returned to Mercer. Some students just walked out the side doors without signing out because of the disorganization from the school.
