Was really caught of guard hearing the name of my prep school on the local news last night. In general FVS is not high profile enough to warrant coverage especially given I’m in ME and FVS is in CO. No one was hurt but campus was evacuated.
Scary moment for parents of the students involved. One of my classmates is the parent of a current student. Details are still sketchy, but I’m sure I will learn more.
That’s nuts! I actually live in Boulder, so I’m not far from FVS… saw it on the news actually. Thank god the campus was evacuated and nobody was hurt: it’s very upsetting, but in Colorado there’s a huge amount of guns/bombs/knives/ threats at schools. The local high school is shut down at least once a year due to threats… it’s messed up.
Sadly, this kind of thing can happen anywhere. Happily, a tragedy did not happen.
I guess everything is relative, but isn’t Boulder about 2 hours drive from FVS ?
Little over 100 miles if my memory is right, back in the 80’s you could do it 90 minutes but there has been so much build up between Denver and Colorado Springs that I bet it takes 2 ours minimum now.
Did you enjoy FVS ?
From the article:
And:
Something isn’t adding up here.
Wow. We looked at FVS. @SatchelSF Bryan Bolding is no longer on the website’s directory…per the article, he had already been notified that he wasn’t getting a contract renewal prior to the incident. I’m thinking he won’t be on the list for other BS’s new faculty members any time soon…way to ruin your career, Dude. Hope it was worth it. Geez
@publisher I did. I was at FVS for my junior and senior years. But it was a bit of a culture shock. I spent my first two years of prep school at Portsmouth Abbey - so I went from all boys, coat and tie, classes 6 days/week to co-ed, jeans expected (I did not even own any when I arrived), and occasional saturday activities.
@SatchelSF I know the entire story, one of my groomsmen is on the board and I know a couple of other board members. The Tech Director had just been told he was not coming back and the minor referenced is his son. What do you see as not adding up?
that is crazy…
@Publisher Yes, it is about 2 hours drive and it is not far in Mountains/West standards. I met a parent driving to FVS from Aspen nearly every weekend to see her daughter at the FVS parent panel. 5 hours each way. (That is far.) NE folks are surprised to hear that I drive from Boston to NYC or DC etc. 500 miles a day is a reasonable driving distance for me.
@RedSoxFan18 - That’s useful additional color. I guess what I am reacting to is the “military grade explosive” that was supposedly found in the cafeteria, and yet the only real charge (the others are mostly fluff and/or lesser included charges) is possession and/or use of a hoax device. So, which is it - real explosives or a hoax designed to frighten people? (Perhaps there is some way it could be both?) Note that impossibility - such as that the device could not have worked, as in the Richard Reid case when the fool tried to light his sweat-soaked shoe on fire - will ordinarily not be an impediment to a terrorism charge. I guess maybe the paper just got it wrong, and it wasn’t really a military grade explosive? It also begs the question of why go to the trouble of placing a non-functional device in the cafeteria when a simple phone call could have caused the same disruptive effect with much less chance of being caught. Maybe Mr. Bolding is just a moron? What is the real story here?
I never saw a photo of the actual device but what from what i understand it was a smoke bomb packaged to look like a serious bomb.