The Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 has experienced a series of incidents over the past two weeks. Each incident was brought to administrations attention by students on campus.
“We tell kids to be an upstander, not a bystander,” said Dr. Walt Cooper, the Superintendent for Cheyenne Mountain School District said.
One of the incidents involved an elementary student bringing medication to school and sharing it with three other students. Some of the children went home and told their parents who then reported it to the school.
“Over the past few years in District 12 I feel like we’ve really built a culture where kids and parents feel comfortable doing that,” Dr. Cooper said.
Another one of the incidents was a shooting threat at Cheyenne Mountain Junior High. Dr. Cooper said several students saw a snapchat then reported it to the school and also called in tips to the hotline. He said administration then ruled the threat as not credible.
“I can’t even begin to tell you the amount of situations we’ve been able to intervene because we’ve been alerted by Safe2Tell,” said Dr. Cooper.
Parents on of students on campus also agree the tip line is a great thing for the kids to have.
“It isn’t something we had growing up. So in today’s world, we have to have something like that for our kids for their safety,” said Maria Randolph, a mom of a 7th grader at CMJH.
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