3rd pupil arrested in alarm, gun case

Bluntly put: Do the people of Richmond County care enough about their schoolchildren and their schools to WORK with their board of education and their superintendent of schools to make their schools SAFER and BETTER in numerous other ways?

This can happen in any school at any time. Fellow students, parents, teachers, school public safety officers, deputies, etc. all must work together to help prevent incidnets such as this. This could have become a deadly tragedy very quickly. However, it has nothing to do with RC schools, just the individuals who broke laws and endangered others. Good job to the campus police/richmond county boe officers and the Sheriff's Office for working closely together to identify, locate and arrest these individuals.

In most incidents like this, but not all, the parents are to blame for the kids being the way they are and doing the things they do not the school.

these two "teens" should be identified and tried as adults...send a message Beddin...NO Tolerance!!!!!!!!

It will be a whimp out case, nothing will happen, same ol, same ol!

As It Is, you hit a home run with your post.

Mr. Folk, once again thank you for giving identity to more local gang thugs. Why can't anyone just see things as they are ? A couple of kids pulled the fire alarm. Should any of this make the newspaper ? How many times did this happen when any of you were in high school ? I don't think it made the local paper when I was in school at ARC. Of course, if he had a real sawed-off shotgun, he should simply be jailed and the weapon destroyed. Leave the school system out of the article, as it happens every day in other school systems nation wide, and, above all, leave it out of the newspaper.

I live near Richmond Academy, and every morning I see students coming to a place which is on another school ground and smoking pot and hanging out. I even see people waiting for students before school is let out hanging out. I have called the school but by the time school security gets here they are gone. I've seen students cutting classes hanging out here and then going back to school in time to catch the bus.

I believe that Dr.Bedden made the statement a few months back that there was no gangs or gang members attending ARC, or Richmond Co. Schools, that the gangs were in the neighborhoods and not in the schools. Does it appear that he may have been slightly unfamiliar with his surroundings. As far as your statement Dr. Bedden, ("You paid for it. Watch out for it"). Remember, we pay for you too, and yes we are watching.

ghtty, I say not only put this in the paper, but identify the perps and put their trouble making butts in jail.

Watch as well as pray but please don't just stand there and watch. Do something. Lend a helping hand. Too often we LOOK AND WATCH for others to fail. Dr. Bedden is doing an excellent job with the Richmond County Board of Education. Oftentimes we become the victims of failure ourselves just because we undermine others' success.Why not allow prayer (God's written word) to enter freely back into schoools? Where there is no God, there will never be any peace.When one is operating in the spirit, he must speak in the spirit. There are no gang members in the Richmond County Schools by faith. The simple pulling of the fire alarm could have turned into a tragic. The safety prevention team that God sent in did an excellent job. Continue to murmur and complain. YOUR BIG DAY OF FAILURE AND DISAPPOINTMENT IS ON THE WAY unless you repent and love one another and bear one another's burdens. Gustavo is not enough evidence that God is tired of America's sinful ways? Don't wait until trouble comes your way, help someone now, especially the little children.What have you done to comfort, edify, and exalt the children of Richmond County or Dr. Bedden? Your comments SPEAKS for who you really are!!!!

wait lets see, troublemaker at school, SENT TO THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL AND WAS GETTING INTO TROUBLE THERE, so what is the solution??? just suspend (or give the 16 YEAR OLD A FEW EXTRA VACATION DAYS OFF), why do you ask as long as the student is still metriculating the school system recieves the state and/or fedearl funds that are contingent on enrollment levels. why do you think you have to jump thru hoops to get a child suspended???? loss of federal funds that's why, so it is cheaper to build an "alternative school" and babysit them because the school board still recieves funds for that child because technically he is still "enrolled". the bottom line is this until the school system develops a zero tolarance and start expelling troublemaking student and sending them back to their parents, or holding the parents responsible by having the parents do community service or cleaning the streets or vacant lots for their lack of parental responsibility ARC schools will continue to suffer and ultimately lose its accredidation but that maybe the wakeup call richmond county boe needs