Students released early following bomb threat at Marion High School
April 28, 2021
Students were released when a bomb threat was made over the phone following a week of unease at Marion High School.
For three days community members have been protesting for the immediate firing of the coach due to an alleged racist incident with one of the students.
See more: (MHS threat was related to recent protests; investigation continuing)
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The school’s Central Office of Administration received the call around 9:30 a.m., students and faculty were evacuated from the building as a precautionary measure.
According to the school the threat came from a caller in New York, demanding the school’s female track coach be fired.
School administrators confirmed the coach has been placed on administrative leave.
Staff reporter George Wiebe can be reached at [email protected]
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Vickie L Dodd • Apr 29, 2021 at 10:23 am
I live in Marion, I have two great granddaughters who’s birth mother is biracial. If a teacher had said these remarks to either one of them, I too would be demanding her firing. I don’t agree with the racial devide in this country as I served this country proudly for everyone, no matter what race, but what this woman said goes against everything I believe in even as a Christian. She shouldn’t be getting paid while being investigated if she admitted to wrong doing.