School acted appropriately

This letter is in response to Erika Gray’s letter to the editor printed in Friday’s Frontiersman.

Erika, a senior at Colony High School, was upset the school had taken writing samples from all 1,200 students and possibly violated her rights. These writing samples helped authorities quickly apprehend the student that wrote the bomb threat on the bathroom wall in the school.

I commend the school principal and authorities for acquiring the writing samples and I don’t believe any personal rights or liberties were violated; instead, the safety and welfare of our community was protected.

I would like Erika to consider how many students and teachers might have died had the principal chosen to do nothing and this was not a threat and an actual bomb went off in her school. Collecting writing samples is fairly harmless and nobody died giving these samples; however, if the threat were real, lives were saved.

If Erika doesn’t like how responsible our school officials and authorities acted then she could go back to California.

Keep up the good work protecting our students, Colony principal, staff and authorities.

Pio Cottini

Palmer