Parent Threatens Child at Broadview-Thomson
On April 6th at Broadview-Thomson K-8 during school breakfast, a 7-year old girl was threatened by a parent (not her own) who said she would cut the girl's tongue out and showed her a boxcutter. It is unclear why the parent did this but the little girl was frightened and went to a staff member. The staff member alerted the office and the school staff searched the school to try to find the person in case it was an ongoing issue. They did not find the person. The school says that they notified the child's mother right away. The mother is claiming she was not told until the afternoon. At some point, the staff did figure out who threatened the child. When she was questioned, the woman, the mother of a classmate of the victim, claimed she was "just kidding" and had the boxcutter in her coat because she had just come from work where she uses one. The parent of the child had a previously scheduled meeting with the principal the next day and, of course, the...