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Have the latest Reality Checks delivered to your inbox with our free newsletter. The words at the top of incident report, filled out by Kansas City police, are the kind no school wants to see:.
The chief concern is why two of the offending students β all of whom were reportedly put in handcuffs on Sept. One student did not return, although it remains unclear if the student did not return voluntarily or if the student was expelled. They handcuffed them. They took them away in cars. The lack of detailed information passed on to students and parents, she said, has been frustrating.
Also galling, she added, is that one of the offending students is the child of a Pembroke board member. The police incident report, obtained by The Star, offers almost no useful information as to the nature of the threats, except to say they occurred.
Because the individuals involved are juveniles, their names and the details of what happened have been redacted, meaning obscured from sight. No charges were filed. Pembroke administrators declined to speak to The Star directly, but in answers to emailed questions they acknowledged that two incidents actually occurred in relation to the faculty member who was identified as Christie D. Jones in the police incident report.
