Officials say they have fixed a messenger system at a Vermont school that left parents in the dark when the school was locked down over reports of a gun on campus.
Lyndon Institute went into lockdown on the first day of classes Aug. 28 due to reports of a suspicious person on campus with what appeared to be a gun. Police say the gun turned out to be just an umbrella.
WCAX-TV reports the Institute’s Head of School Twila Perry says a call will now go to parents in an emergency, telling them how to reach their kids and where to pick them up.
The school shared information about the lockdown on Facebook, but its messenger system failed to reach parents. Six hundred children attend the school.
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