The letter bomb dug a hole as wide as a basketball into the principal's desk, shattering windows and blowing shrapnel around the room. Then the principal and his wounded secretary were en route to the hospital. And it was Linda Chase's job to figure out what to do next. I didn't blow up,'' she said.
Some specialists say that such training reflects the lack of a solution to school violence.
It's an issue of things being black and white, no gray. Prosecutors in Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex, and other counties said they have seen an increase in threats of violence in local schools. Few, if any, have seen a violent act follow those threats, they said. School officials were reminded to take all e-mail threats seriously, and to save them.