Leader Staff
A 9-year-old summer school student was suspended Thursday after displaying a knife to several other students at Shawano Community High School.
Police responded to the incident at the high school, 220 County Road B, shortly before 11 a.m.
According to the police report, the student “had shown a knife to three other students in a classroom and then reportedly said he would slit their throats.”
One of the students reported the incident to the teacher, and the guidance staff brought the student to the school office.
The boy denied threatening anyone with the knife, but said he was mad that the other boys were not excited to see the knife, according to the report.
Someone from the Shawano County Human Services Department was brought in to speak with the student, and the boy’s mother was also contacted.
The knife was confiscated, and the student was suspended for the remainder of the summer-school term.