GALION – The Galion City School District has announced a student has been identified that officials believe is responsible for a bomb threat that was discovered Thursday.
The school issued a press release Thursday night alerting the public that it had “caught” the student who wrote the bomb threat on the girls’ bathroom wall in the sixth-grade wing at Galion Middle School Feb. 15. The name of the individual cannot be released because the student is a minor child.
“We intend to punish this student to the fullest extent allowed by Ohio law,” said Jim Grubbs, Galion Superintendent. “We will send a message to the entire student body that this type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in the Galion City School District.”
The collaboration and quick response by the Galion Fire Department and Galion Police Department aided the district’s administrators in bringing closure to this issue, the school stated.
“We appreciate our first responders quick response and their work in helping to bring this situation to a close so quickly,” said Grubbs.
The district stated it would like to formally apologize to parents and families of Galion Middle School students for the delay in sending the all call with information about the day’s events.
“We recognize that we didn’t do a good enough job getting the information out to our parents and families in a timely manner,” said Grubbs. “We are making adjustments in our operations to ensure a delay in calling our families never happens again.”
