Seems like this is turning into a weekly event at Tates Creek

 

3rd Gun Found In 2 Weeks At Tates Creek High School - LEX18.com | Continuous News and StormTracker Weather

 

Dear Tates Creek High School Families:

 

I want to begin by assuring you that all of our students are safe and there is no threat at Tates Creek High School. I’m saddened to share that I am writing today to make you aware that our law enforcement officers have arrested one of our students for having a gun on campus.

 

This morning, the Lexington Police Department picked up a student in neighborhood for truancy and brought him to campus. Our law enforcement officers searched the student when he arrived at school and found a gun. He was charged with possession of a weapon on school property and will also face serious administrative consequences through the school district.

 

I know this is disturbing. I am just as upset as you are. But I hope you see that we found the weapon today because our school responded to last week’s incident by making a change in practice. Our Fayette County Department of Law Enforcement does an amazing job of safeguarding our schools and working with us to ensure the safety of our students.

 

I’ve been principal at Tates Creek High School for more than a decade and this is not emblematic of our school. Tates Creek is a caring and safe community

and although we have had three guns on our campus in the past 12 days, none of the students had any intent of using the weapons at school.

 

Schools are microcosms of the neighborhoods that we serve and solving the proliferation of weapons in our community will require a broader commitment from families and other partners.

 

We are in close communication with district leaders and the Lexington Police Department about this situation. Our partnership with the Lexington Police Department is critical to an overall effortfor safety in our schools. In addition to the protocol we have already instituted of searching any student that the Lexington Police Department brings to campus, we are also considering the implementation of random metal detector checks for all students.

 

Please mark your calendars for a meeting for families and community partners on Wednesday, November 16th at 6:00 p.m. to discuss this situation and how we come together to address some of the concerning community issues with which TCHS is dealing. As always, please don’t hesitate to call me with questions or concerns.

 

Sam Meaux

 

Principal

That reads as they picked him up away from campus, took him to campus, and then charged him with having a firearm on school grounds. How can they do that?

That reads as they picked him up away from campus, took him to campus, and then charged him with having a firearm on school grounds. How can they do that?

 

I don't know. I wonder if he was at school and left and was picked up and brought back? Even without this there have been 2 guns in 2 weeks found at that school.

 

I was just there a couple of weeks ago...nice area, nice campus and even a large police station a couple of hundred feet from the campus.

Think the one today has anything to do with modern gun season, and our good ole boy wanting to spend time after school in the woods?

Think the one today has anything to do with modern gun season, and our good ole boy wanting to spend time after school in the woods?

 

Well, if they had to search him to find it...it probably wasn't a deer rifle :lol2:

I remember the days of having shotguns in the window of the truck on school grounds.

Lexington Superintendent wanting Metal Detectors available by Monday at all Lexington High Schools. Calling for random screening as well.

That reads as they picked him up away from campus, took him to campus, and then charged him with having a firearm on school grounds. How can they do that?

 

That's how I read it. If so, wow....

 

Reminds me of Ron White's "Drunk in Public" skit.