Kasson-Mantorville High Gun Threat

This article covers a recent event in my hometown of Kasson, MN. This last Friday there was a gun threat from a student of the school. The article in the above link was a little too stingy with details about the event, granted there has been little time for journalists to gather information. I think that an article like this is very important Kasson and any other surrounding communities, and this firm could have spent a little more energy providing the public with information. I believe it is an integral part of journalism.
I’d also like to point out an apparent lack of communication on the part of school officials. The superintendant has access to every student’s school e-mail address, not to mention phone numbers and parental information. Yet no one in school knew about the threat until the day after the threat: the day in which the shooting would have occurred. I understand that the young man threatening the school was apprehended before he could take action; he was actually apprehended the night before he was planning to strike. But, according to a letter sent out to parents of the students (TWO DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT) the police and administration thought that it would be safe to conduct school based on the would be shooter’s statement that he had no accomplices. That seems like sketchy administration to me. In this scenario, it should be administrative policy to use any form of media possible to let the public know about the event in a timely fashion, not the day after it occurs. The administration should have contacted media sources and used e-mail. And a news company with a sense of community would then hopefully have used media to get the message out quickly. This is a situation where media could have been helpful, and was not implemented in a efficient manner.
Any details I mentioned that were not in the article come from personal experience, because my younger sister still attends Kasson-Mantorville High School.