A parent from Niverville is voicing frustration with how Hanover School Division handled communication following this week's threat.

RCMP were notified Tuesday at approximately 10:30 pm that a student from Niverville Collegiate had posted a picture of a firearm on Instagram with the caption, "Schools Gonna Be Fun Tomorrow." It turned out to be a BB gun in the picture and RCMP confirm that by about midnight Tuesday they had wrapped up their investigation. The post was made by a 16-year-old male from the RM of Tache. RCMP also confirm that by about Tuesday midnight they had informed a staff member of Niverville Collegiate on the details of the threat.

Barry Piasta has a daughter who attends that school. He says they knew nothing of the threat until after their daughter had already arrived at school Wednesday morning. He says it was around 9:35 am that his wife received a text from their daughter saying there is a threat at school. Piasta then called the school and was told the situation had been neutralized by RCMP and that a letter was being sent out to parents.

Piasta says in this day and age parents could have been notified hours earlier. He says when a blizzard strikes in the middle of the night, the school division uses the automatic telephone system to alert parents by 6 am of school cancellations. Yet, in this incident, when the school knew of the threat before parents even woke up that morning, they opted to wait until mid-morning before sending out any sort of alert. And Piasta says by then, the damage had already been done.

"One lady said my son came running home from the bus stop, waiting for the school bus, upset that there was a threat at the school with a gun," says Piasta. "A lot of parents were getting texts from their kids of a gun in school, and this kind of stuff, nobody knew what was going on and people were saying they can't get ahold of the school."

Piasta says the lack of communication by the school division created a much bigger problem and now he wishes a meeting could be held involving school officials and parents. He thinks the division should explain to parents what went on and how this miscommunication can be avoided in the future.

Piasta says his daughter was upset all night and says with the Florida school shooting still fresh in their minds, it made Wednesday morning that much more tense.

According to Piasta, some parents in Niverville didn't learn of the threat until 2:30 Wednesday afternoon.

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