Superintendent reassures parents, staff by email.
St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 said Thursday that rumors of threats to Thompson Middle School and St. Charles East High School on Thursday were unfounded, the Kane County Chronicle reports. Superintendent Donald Schlomann, in an email to parents and teachers, said “no credible threat exists,” and explained that the district worked with the St. Charles Police Department to make that determination, according to the the Kane County Chronicle report. The rumors come nearly a week after a gunman forced his way into Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., and shot to death 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. The violence shook the nation, sparking school security and student safety concerns even among St. Charles …
No one was injured. District officials say the blaze damaged the building and computer equipment.
A fire inside Thompson Middle School early Wednesday morning caused more than $100,000 in damage to the building and computer equipment. A cart containing about 15 recharging laptop computers caught fire at around 3 a.m. while being stored in a room next to the school’s Learning Resource Center, district officials said Wednesday. St. Charles firefighters responded to the fire alarm and extinguished the blaze. No students were in the school at the time and no one was injured. Smoke and fire damaged computer equipment, ceiling tiles and other parts of the building, said district Superintendent Don Schlomann. Cleaning will take place through the weekend. Schlomann said most of the $100,000 estimate comes from damage to the parts of the …
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