Police use metal detecting wands on students
Tensions over a Day of Silence in support of gay rights led to a lockdown at New Castle Chrysler High School.
Superintendent John Newby would not confirm students’ claims that a student had threatened to take a gun to school Wednesday.
“We didn’t have a specific threat,” Newby said. He did say that a student was disciplined Tuesday for remarks made during a classroom discussion.
Students were taken to the New Castle Fieldhouse while police searched lockers Wednesday morning. No weapons were found. Police used metal detecting wands on students as they returned to class. Extra police officers remained at school throughout the day and access to the building was limited to three entrances.
About 150 of the 1,000 students at school left early, according to figures reported by the principal’s office. About 80 students did not show up for school. School officials said students would not be penalized for the unexcused absences.”People were in their shirts for it, people were in their shirts against it, and it just caused a lot of drama that I didn’t think was needed,” said student Kayla Boyles.
Nationally, students from more than 4,000 schools had registered for the Day of Silence, according to an organizer. Many students took a vow of silence for most of the day to support gay, bisexual and transgender students.
Tommie Barnes, mother of a freshman, said she also was concerned about potential conflict over Thursday’s planned Day of Truth rebuttal to the Day of Silence. That also coincides with a national observance, this one planned by the Alliance Defense Fund. Its day is devoted to countering the “homosexual agenda” and presenting an “opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective,” according to the fund’s Web site.
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The over-reaction is no doubt linked to the fact that the school district is overwhelmingly European American and the teens were planning a conference to resist the homosexual agenda. Such acts of spontaneous resistance are growing across America as political correctness hits its zenith. and the intolerant face of the “tolerance” movement is exposed.