Elite NYC school plagued by untraceable bomb threats almost every day as panicked parents demand answers

A highly competitive Brooklyn high school has been plagued with untraceable bomb threats “almost every single day” for months — leaving students and parents terrified, The Post has learned.The NYPD has not been able to track down the sicko or sickos who have been targeting the Brooklyn Latin School since at least May, and some fearful families said they’re considering ditching the sprawling campus for safer options.“I feel like it’s happening a lot and they’re not really telling us what’s going on,” one freshman said of the school administration during dismissal on Thursday.“I am slightly nervous because we don’t have the information to know what’s going on.They kind of protect us by not letting us know,” she told The Post.The student said she and her classmates at Brooklyn Latin — one of the city’s eight elite specialized public high schools — have been dealing with what feels like near-constant alarms ringing through the halls, making them nervous.The alarms are followed by “shelter-ins,” where the building goes into lockdown, with kids forced to remain inside, until classes are eventually allowed to resume.

Other times, the school is instead placed on “hold,” where kids don’t leave their classrooms, students said.Cops said none of the threats have been deemed credible, and that the investigation is ongoing.The disturbing situation was revealed this week by frustrated mom Gillian Telling, who wrote in a People article that there was “no end in sight” to parents’ distress.All the calls have apparently been directed at Brooklyn Latin, two other schools — Lyons Community School and Williamsburg High School of Arts + Technology — share the same Graham Avenue campus and are subjected to the same evacuations and fear.“I am afraid to send my children to school because we don’t know exactly what’s happening,” said Manuel Aruz, 62, whose 16- and 14-year-old girls attend the WHSAT.“When you see the police every ...

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