This Idaho school district’s homecoming parade was canceled after online threats

Kate Jacobson, KIVI

UPDATE (Sept. 20, 11 a.m.):

(KIVI) — The Caldwell School District says that astir half of each secondary students successful nan territory stayed location connected Friday, pursuing Thursday’s cancellation of nan homecoming parade owed to online threats.

The territory besides rescheduled nan homecoming dance, but nan homecoming shot crippled will proceed arsenic scheduled.

Original communicative (Thursday):

The Caldwell School District announced connected Thursday day that they are canceling nan yearly Caldwell High School Homecoming Parade, which was scheduled for Friday, Sept.20. The schoolhouse besides canceled Friday’s planned Homecoming assembly.

In a property release, nan territory says they were made alert of imaginable threats this week that person caused a “significant disruption to nan acquisition environment.”

While nan schoolhouse territory says that location is nary grounds that nan threats are credible, nan determination was based “in an abundance of caution.”

CSD is moving intimately pinch nan Caldwell Police Department to analyse immoderate threats.

School successful Caldwell is scheduled to proceed arsenic accustomed connected Friday, but parents and guardians were told that they tin excuse their kid from people by contacting their student’s schoolhouse attendance clerk.

The territory says they dream to observe Caldwell High School’s 2024 Homecoming Parade astatine a later date.