Colorado school cancels classes over threat after Trump pinata incident

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Mon May 8, 2017 | 9:04pm EDT

Colorado school cancels classes over threat after Trump piñata incident

By Keith Coffman | DENVER

A Colorado high school canceled classes on Monday following an unspecified online threat, authorities said, days after a Spanish teacher there was suspended over allegations he allowed students to strike a piñata depicting President Donald Trump.

Activities at Roosevelt High School in the town of Johnstown, about 40 miles north of Denver, were put on hold out of an abundance of caution, Martin Foster, superintendent of the Johnstown-Milliken school district, said in a statement.

"Recent tragedies around the country and in our own state have heightened everyone's concern for the safety of students," Foster said. He did not say if the threat was related to the piñata incident.

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Foster said he became aware last Friday of social media posts of a Cinco De Mayo event at the school where a photograph of Trump was affixed to a piñata. Cinco De Mayo is an annual celebration commemorating the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-trump-teacher-idUSKBN18503D

[DrDan]

1. no place for this is the classroom - the Superintendent is handling it correctly

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Those pinatas are selling like hotcakes.

I've seen 3 or 4 of em in the last month alone.