I happen to know the family and the child, she does not have a bad home life, while we do not yet know why she did this, please don't bash a family you don't know. They parents are good people and are doing what they are asked to at this time to cooperate, as well as putting the child on house arrest. By no means is anyone around her making excuses for what she did. Some of the comments are uncalled for. To say that she was snickering at anything when you really have no idea. Let's remember she is only 14 not a grown adult. The viciousness towards a child is truly unbelievable. I'm sure I will be attacked, but honestly our society spends so much time judging and critizing others...are you perfect have you never made a mistake in your life!!!

And to think back in my day, pulling the fire alarm had us all scared enough to know not to do it. Never, would anyone ever go far enough to even think of doing a bomb scare. The world today is a scarey place, and gets scarier every day. Here is a kid that did the unthinkable, and a person excusing the behavior. Keep responsibility where it belongs. It could be a cry for help, it could be an emotionally disturbed kid....but keep responsibility where it belongs. Passing the buck is not going to "help" the child.
I honestly get so tired of people putting blame where it dont belong. That is why our world is so messed up now. It only is going to get worse until we start putting responsibility back where it belongs.

agreed

Let's all hope that whoever called in or wrote on a bathroom wall a bomb threat gets the help they need to fully understand what they did, and the effect it had on a community. Sure this is not iraq where these things happen on a daily basis none the less it had to be taken seriously.

Wow.... Villa.... Please, seek some help. Drinking and typing is a very serious thing and it needs to stop, if not for you... Please think of the people that have to read your drunken ravings.

also, I do not know if this could be considered a true Bomb Threat as everyone is calling it. From my understanding all she did was write the word "Bomb" on a wall. If there was more to it than disregard.

lakennedy, I agree, I hope she gets the help she needs. I also think you are assuming everyone would ask for help the same way. Yes, we as adults would go about it differently than a 14 year old girl with emotional problems.

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I really do understand that you think this may be a call for help. I do not. If you need help, grab a phone and call for it. You do not write out a bomb threat. I honestly have no time for this. I don't think that it would be doing society any favors to just kick this girl out of school though. It would have an adverse affect on her life and it doesn't send a very strong message to other kids. I'd like to see something more on the line of what Sannio wrote about. Community service. Hopefully somewhere where she may get an idea of how lucky she is just to be alive and able to go to school. If this was a cry for help, Glock, I hope she gets it. It is not okay for her or anyone else to think that it is acceptable for anyone to cry out in this fashion, though.

Sure, we should let the people in charge take care of this kid, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that she did something over the line. If this is how she thinks she is going to get help.....I have news for her.

kids do stupid things, always have, always will... we should let the school and police gather information and make a decision before we run for the hanging rope.

I also have a child that attends Milton High School and I think that this matter shoult be taken seriously! I also think the child should be delt with in a maner in witch fits the crime for the age. She or he is still a child and if they do not have the correct response to this the mistake it could ruien the rest of their life even if they are not a bad child. We from the outside look in uninformed and say things we have no idea about. Who is to say "o" the home life is probably bad. We do not know. Maybe they where bored right or wrong. I myself have a child who causes small problems (nothing compared to this)and his grades are a constant struggel. But on the other I have a child who is a straight "A" student. Both raised in the same home with two parents.
I know that their are alot of things that go on in the high school on a daily bases that nothing is done about. Such as harassment, this comes from the fact that no one pays attention until it's too late. The kids come to the adults and they are told to look past the talk but when it is everyday over and over it is unexceptable.
I have family that attends a Janesville High school and he was told that for harassment he would receive a 200.00 fine but not here.
Sure alot of this is caused because our childen these days are left to do what they chose while we are off working in most cases or in some cases the parents are just off. The kids are not tought to respect anymore even "the good kids" they will act up just like the kids who aren't known as "the good kids" they just don't let people see them.

villa - maybe next time you could open up Word and gather your thoughts into one entire ignorant statement and then paste it in. At least then it wouldn't look like you got home from the bar and started typing away. By the way, Google's gmail now has math problems to help stop drunk emailing....maybe soon gazetteextra will enable the same for posts. If so, good luck villa.

I think it was my Junior year at Edgerton High school that we had four of these in only about a couple months. It was such a touchy issue that I got in trouble for joking the next day during a tornado drill that the person who called in the bomb threat probably called in the tornado as well... what can I say, I was young and immature. That is the point, these kids are young and immature. They just don't fully understand the severity of their actions and the realities we face in this world. Consequences are not fully understood until they are experienced first hand.

have you ever stopped to think that maybe this was a cry for help and attention? We don't know what is going on in her family life, or if she has an emotional problem. PEOPLE, this is a 14 year old girl and you are expecting her to act and think like an adult. I do agree there needs to be some punishment here, but I think we need to take a step back and look at the whole picture here. And yes, saying that whoever did this probably says "axe" instead of "ask" is racist. (I'm white, by the way")

I have family that attends Milton High School, and I am seriously angered that someone would do something to interfere with a fun week, and their studies. There are kids that have enough anxiety in their lives, and know that school violence is REAL in this day and age, and this type of "joke" is unacceptable when some kids probably have a hard time just going to school on an every day basis because of the fear of something happening. I wish I could just set her in the middle of a street to whitness what a bomb victim really goes through!!!!!! I bet her snickering would turn into studdering and I bet she REALLY wouldn't be able to pronounce ASK!!

GLOCK....well that just proves she isn't "as nice" as you thought she was. If she is going to do something so unexcusable in these times, she is not someone that deserves nice things or a nice neighborhood to live in. Maybe she should be sent to Iraq with a news broadcaster for a month as a intern to see what bombs are REALLY ALL ABOUT!! This is NOT FUNNY and NOT EXCEPTABLE!!!!!

you people are so racist and mean. I know who the GIRL is that did this and it is someone you would never expect, who comes from a good home and yes can pronounce "ask" properly. Also comes from a very nice neighborhood.

House arrest for a year and tack on a semester for each semester passing grades were not achieved, until they are 18. Only supervised Internet and phone access, no leaving the house except for school or approved medical appointments, no visitors, give the offender a buzz cut, a tracking bracelet and a bright orange jumpsuit to wear each day.
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If the parent(s) don't cooperate, they get orange jumpsuits as well.

sannio's idea is far better than sending this student to some lockup. The criminal justice system, particularly in regards to punishing youth, has lost sight of trying to rehabilitate. We have "economized" by sending convicted criminals to some lockup far away from the crime instead of making them directly responsible for their action.

This would be an excellent time to find out what this student is trying to tell people. It might be a serious situation at home, or a serious lack of understanding what responsibility is. In both cases I think a year of spending an hour each day after school painting and cleaning the school with a mentor are in order.

It's fun to log on, and see what people wrote at bar time.

Bet they the juvenile will go through the diversion program......

I'm assuming it was a girl. The threat was found in the girls bathroom.

I'm really curious as to who it was though...guess I'll find out Monday when I go to school =D

A bomb threat is not a bomb. The kid probably wanted to get out of a test.
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I think the Janesville procedure would be to expel him for at least a year, though I'm not sure if they'd expel him until age 18. The threat will be handled within the juvenile justice system and will not be public.

Polert - Why do you assume it's a Male?

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH TEENAGERS THESE DAYS?

Will this be a felony? If not how will this follow him to assure no future action?