Shortly before 9:00 am Tuesday, a 16-year-old student at Deer Valley High School in Antioch threatened to harm himself on campus with a weapon.
The student reportedly called Antioch Police Dispatch claiming if they were not there in 10-minutes, he would harm himself after a fight with his mother. He reportedly had a knife in his possession per radio traffic. The student further said his mother would harm him and that she always puts her hands on him.
As police responded, they requested school site safety to back away from the student until they arrived and observe him through the schools security cameras. Police repeatedly had to give this order until they were finally on campus where they again ordered site safety away from the subject.
Police were able to talk the student down who ultimately did not have a weapon. The student was detained and the lock-down was lifted.
No further information was provided on scene.
Note: Strategic Threat Management, who is the school districts armed security company, was not yet on campus and was not involved in the incident.
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School district needs to follow police directions. They always act as if they know better and typically they do not.
Thank you ECT for the FB comment about site safety needing to listen to police. Site safety are worse than rent-a-guards. They need to leave it to the pros or at least the armed security company.
This story is a bold face lie. None of the school safety staff were near the student and followed police direction explicitly. Stop stomping on Deer Valley High School.
Half of your stories make no sense and your sources are suspect. I teach here and our administration did the right thing to help one student.
@Michael, I encourage you to go to APD and pull the dispatch audio before you accuse us of lying.
What you hear on a scanner is not the whole picture, nor reflective of what’s on the ground. We had every student in a classroom with locked doors and a locked gate within minutes. Again, no facts, no statement from those onsite. On-line journalism isn’t journalism.
As far as our educational site leaders are concerned, they did their jobs coolly and professionally. Focus on fact checking in your profession. Another case of ‘ready, fire, aim” in the logic of on-line media.
Jim, whoever he is, has my invitation to attend and see some of the work we do with our students. We have good leaders, particularly Ken Gardner, but I sense someone at East County Today, has an axe to grind.
Deer Valley High School is an urban school in the ‘burbs. It has all the challenges of a high school and my colleagues work hard every day making this a safe place to teach and learn. Teaching is tough. I’ve been a Marine, a businessman, and coach, and there are many days this is more difficult than the Marine Corps. It’s not a job for the timid.
Back off the DVHS bashing or get involved with Antioch Education Foundation and be part of our solution, not just a member of what I call the “chattering” class.
I do not trust Deer Valley politics over a police scanner. When police say back off, back off!!!! Principal and other leadership should be replaced ASAP!
ECT provides info that would never come out of Deer Valley. Deer Valley is one giant cover up after another and I would love for it to be exposed once and for all. As a parent with a kid at that school, shame on you Michael. I hope the AUSD makes some changes immediately for real change.
Sounds like DeerValleyParents kid has been in the office once or twice. It is classic how they are now telling a teacher “shame on you”. Sounds like the teacher is trying to make the best out of teaching some of the worst students at one of the roughest high schools around. I’m no fan of deer valley high, as I have seen nothing but trash and unruly kids after school. Its amazing how we as a society have let our kids run wild to the point that businesses have to close their doors. This is why businesses are leaving this city. No future in it.
District Site Safety is not trained or equipped to handle most of the situations involving violence or threats of violence because the District does not give them the training or tools necessary to do so. They just throw them out there and expect them to do something.
District Site Safety is not trained or equipped to handle most of the situations involving violence or threats of violence because the District does not give them the training or tools necessary to do so. They just throw them out there and expect them to do something.
AUSD really needs to address their site safety and the principal at Deer Valley HS. How does he still have a job?
I think this story is one sided and lacks detail. Radio traffic is not always correct and only provides partial information. The point of this story was lost in the fact that ECT felt it nessacary to say several times that site safety was order back several times. The school has a duty to protect its students. I guarantee the security guards have less training in dealing with students then staff members. I’m glad to see that strategic threat management got a little advertising from ECT.
Yep, the security are real pros, thats why the one lady wants to know who the fine looking male is and fires out of the office to stalk him, a new teacher. I heard that on their radio and saw the lady run up the steps to see the man. Creepy.
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