Death Threats Mailed to 6 Taft High School Teachers
Six teachers at Taft High School in Woodland Hills recently received written death threats apparently related to grades, Los Angeles police said Friday.
No suspects have been arrested, police said.
A Taft teacher found six threatening letters in her mailbox on April 11. One was addressed to her and the others were addressed to five other teachers, according to authorities.
Each anonymous letter stated that the teachers would be attacked and shot in the head if they did not raise all of their students’ grades to Bs or A’s.
“We need these grades because if not, we won’t be able to go to college. And whose fault is that?” the letter reads.
The letter asks for grade changes for all students, “even if they are not in our gang.”
The Los Angeles Police Department took over the case after an initial investigation by school police.
“We don’t know if it was written by an individual or group, or if it was designed toward one teacher or all of them,” said LAPD Det. Ron Robbins. “Right now it’s just an anonymous letter.”
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