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- LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters)
- An
Arkansas high school student assigned an essay as punishment for bringing
a straight razor to class was arrested after writing that the best way
to handle a problem at school was to blow the place up, authorities said
on Friday.
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- The 16-year-old student, who will be charged with terroristic
threatening, was ordered on Friday to undergo psychiatric testing,
Sheriff
Ron Webb of Independence County told Reuters.
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- Webb said an official
of Southside High School in Batesville,
about 90 miles (145 km)
northeast of Little Rock, had directed the youth
to write an essay
about the dangers of bringing weapons to school after
he was discovered
to have brought a straight razor to class several days
ago.
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- But when school
officials read the result, they called
sheriff`s deputies.
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- ``He wrote that the
best way to handle a problem at
school was to blow up the building with
the principal and the teachers
and anyone else you were having a
problem with inside,`` Webb said. ``It
was the darnedest thing you`ve
ever read,`` he commented.
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- The sheriff said the essay also explicitly threatened
mass violence like that at various U.S. schools in recent years.
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- ``He said the other
schools haven`t seen anything like
(what he was planning),`` Webb
quoted the student as writing. The teen
was taken on Friday to a
psychiatric facility for observation, he said.
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