Gun threats, student assault frustrate Northern Lebanon School District parents

Bullying at the Northern Lebanon School District has escalated in some cases to gun threats and hate speech made on video, and students being physically attacked on school property — causing some parents frustrated with a lack of action from school district officials to turn to police and file reports with state agencies to get help.

The guardian of a child who was threatened with a gun by another student told the Lebanon Daily News she tried exhaustively to get the school to react.

“Every time you hear about a (school) shooting they say, ‘Well the parents didn’t report this to the school. They didn’t report any warning signs,’” Tammy Cessna, the legal guardian of a Northern Lebanon Middle School student said. “The news media always puts it out there that the parents didn’t report stuff to the school. Honestly, I thought the school had to take care of this.”

Cessna’s granddaughter, a middle school student in the school district, received two threatening videos via Snapchat from a middle school boy this school year.

One video shows the boy holding a semiautomatic handgun, which he dry fires several times, while saying, “B—-, I hope the f— you do. You’ll be a dead son of a b—-, I’ll tell you that.”

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