The board of trustees said its members were working closely with police, neighbouring schools and the wider community to stop the threats. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs an added precaution, from today we will temporarily increase security presence at the school gates during key arrival and departure times,\u201d the board said. <\/p>\n
Senior leaders at the school have urged students take some precautionary measures, the board said.<\/p>\n
Students are being advised to walk with friends or in groups and not alone. <\/p>\n
\u201cDo not linger or loiter at bus stops \u2013 catch your bus when it arrives,” the school advised. <\/p>\n
Students were also asked not to be an onlooker and not to get involved in any social media posts relating to any of these incidents.<\/p>\n
Tension rises <\/p>\n
Western Springs College\u2019s principal Ivan Davis claimed the tension started when some students from another school crashed the college\u2019s athletics day on its fields on February 12. <\/p>\n
\u201cStudents were hanging over the fence and shouting out \u2018we\u2019re coming to get you\u2019 and all that sort of stuff. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s what raised the tension, which is why our kids were worried about going home, which is why we called the police … it just starts off from, you know, something innocuous like that.\u201d <\/p>\n
Davis said staff were escorting students to the bus stops on Great North Rd after school as a safety precaution. <\/p>\n
The Herald understands a nearby school was doing the same. <\/p>\n
Western Springs College students have been subjected to threats. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n
Threats to Western Springs students were allegedly being made in videos posted to TikTok and Discord about a school rivalry. <\/p>\n
Davis said the police\u2019s presence and the work by staff at the involved schools had helped defuse the situation. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday last week, officers were physically present around the Pasadena shops, stepping out of their vehicles, which helped deter any potential problem activity, he said. <\/p>\n
Last Thursday went \u201ccompletely without incident\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
A store worker whose shop is near Western Springs College told the Herald they were losing $500-$600 a day because fewer students are walking home and passing the shop. <\/p>\n
Western Springs College students have been subjected to threats. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n
They had overheard students discussing how they want to beat other students up, said the store worker, who did not wish to be named. <\/p>\n
A police spokesperson told the Herald they were working very closely with the schools involved to ensure the safety of all students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn some areas, there remains an increased police presence at select times of the day. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis presence is a precautionary measure, and we want to ensure students\u2019 safety and prevent any altercations from taking place,\u201d the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The board of trustees said its members were working closely with police, neighbouring schools and the wider community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,16671,1558,12784,11581,5972,2837,71,305,165388,8454,111,43,139,69,6379,193,384,675,6302,4062,6649,1238,55600,26807,21694,3767,127536,26452,810,3457,4741],"class_list":{"0":"post-301334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-college","12":"tag-connected","13":"tag-day","14":"tag-during","15":"tag-from","16":"tag-have","17":"tag-heckling","18":"tag-including","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-ongoing","24":"tag-other","25":"tag-people","26":"tag-police","27":"tag-safety","28":"tag-school","29":"tag-schools","30":"tag-serious","31":"tag-springs","32":"tag-spur","33":"tag-step","34":"tag-students","35":"tag-subjected","36":"tag-threats","37":"tag-up","38":"tag-western","39":"tag-young"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}