Montville Schools Report 11 Vandalism, 8 Violence Cases

Twice a year a violence and vandalism report of the Montville School District is presented. The report covers the last six months, and at a previous school board meeting earlier this month, Superintendent Paul Fried gave a report that covered the second half of the 2012-13 school year.

There are five different categories:

• Violence, such as fighting, pushing shoving
• Vandalism
• Weapons
• Substance Abuse
• HIB or Bullying

• For violence, there were eight cases
• There were 11 cases of vandalism to different schools.
• There were two cases involving weapons: for one case, a student had a box cutter and the second, a student had a pair of scissors in their possession. “Neither of those cases, those instruments were being used against anyone,” the students just had those items on them, said Fried.
• For substance abuse, there were four cases and there were 15 confirmed cases of bullying.
• There were four in-school suspensions: 3 at the high school and 1 at the middle school. There were also nine out-of-school suspensions, all at the high school.