Madison County School officials locked down the Farristown Middle School briefly around lunchtime today Friday Feb 10. Officials state the lockdown was a ‘medical’ lockdown to deal with an issue with one student and was mainly done to secure the campus briefly while EMS rendered aid to the student, who is expected to be fine. School officials in Montgomery County also locked down briefly today after they say a student made a threatening comment.The school district says, after hearing about reports of a student making the threatening statement, school and local law enforcement officials conducted an immediate investigation and quickly identified the student. They determined that they did make a threatening comment; however, at no point was anyone in danger.
A statement by the school district reads “The situation has been completely taken care of and appropriate disciplinary action along with law enforcement coordination will occur,” the procedures that we have in place allowed us to handle this situation with little disruption to the other students in the building.”The school district added all students remained in class during the lockdown and all class schedules were soon resumed.
