Parents fuming after Kentucky teen allowed back to school after allegedly penning ‘kill list’

A 14-year-old Kentucky scholar who allegedly penned a “kill final” final 12 months was allowed to return to high school this month — infuriating mother and father who voiced concern for the security of their very own youngsters.

Dozens of fuming mother and father let their voices be heard throughout a current college board assembly the place they blasted the district’s determination to readmit the teenager scholar to Conner Excessive Faculty.

The coed allegedly made threats in opposition to different classmates final 12 months when he was in center college. He was charged and booted from college, earlier than the college welcomed him again this 12 months, in accordance with stories. The son of the principal at Conner Excessive Faculty, the place the teenager suspect returned, was even reportedly threatened.

One dad or mum stated on the assembly he was devastated when he discovered the coed was again.

“As a father of a kid on the lively kill listing, my statements will replicate my opinions primarily based on the knowledge I acquired from Conner Excessive Faculty,” father Rob Bidleman stated Thursday, in accordance with WLWT.

“Once I acquired a name from the principal, it was emotionally devastating. All I may take into consideration was my youngster in peril after they did nothing mistaken.”

One other dad or mum stated the coed was nonetheless a risk and it’s unfair to college students who have been on the listing to be in the identical constructing as him.

“No matter assist he has gotten, he’s nonetheless a risk to be in an setting which fostered him to need to do a mass taking pictures and make a listing of our college students of Conner Center Faculty that at the moment are at Conner Excessive Faculty,” stated mom Deanne Corbin, in accordance with the information outlet.

The coed, who was not recognized, was charged final 12 months with second-degree terroristic threats, WLWT reported.

Allegations in opposition to the coed got here to gentle in November 2021 after a college useful resource officer was knowledgeable of a pocket book that had particular acts of violence in it and recognized people, WXIX reported, citing police.  

The college officer interviewed the coed who admitted to writing the pocket book’s contents, however claimed he was “merely writing the ideas down that have been in his head,” a police official reportedly stated.

It’s unknown what the standing of the case involving the coed is.

“The principal’s personal son was on this youngster’s listing of loss of life threats,” stated mom Jenny Murray, in accordance with WXIX. “As devoted and hard-working as he’s — how is he not distracted by stress and anxiousness, realizing that his son could possibly be in peril?”

Faculty Superintendent Matthew Turner wrote in a notice to the college group Friday the every youngster has the precise to an schooling, per Kentucky state structure.

“The security of our college students and employees is our best precedence when making district choices. We additionally accomplice in determination making with skilled authorized counsel,” Turner wrote to the college group, in accordance with WLWT. “With the help of the Boone County Sheriff’s Division, our Faculty Useful resource Officers, in addition to the District Security workforce, I can guarantee you all acceptable security measures have been taken and are in place. Conner Excessive Faculty stays a protected college.”