‘It Is My Greatest Fear.’ Superintendents Are Shutting Down School Districts Nationwide Over Shooting Threats

There was little in her training as an educator that prepared Piera Gravenor to make decisions in the middle of the night in response to school shooting threats.

But Gravenor — the superintendent of the Delsea Regional and Elk Township school districts in New Jersey — was woken up around 2:30 a.m. Thursday by a call from police. A teacher at a middle school in the neighboring Franklin Township School District had received a shooting threat via email.