Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Parent Calls Police to Middle School Over Argument

Suffolk County police are called to middle school by parents upset over a student's verbal fight.

Suffolk County police were called by a parent at  over a verbal altercation between students.

Police said a unit was sent to the middle school at 1 p.m. after one student verbally threatened another. Police would not confirm what specific threat was made.

However, Trish Auerbach, spokeswoman for the Hauppauge school district, said it was a parent who called police over a recent incident. Auerbach said days earlier two middle school students were in a verbal fight, but it was mediated by one of the school's guidance counselors. The students shook hands and returned to classes.

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When one of the children told their parents about the incident, the parent was concerned and went down to Hauppauge Middle School on Friday afternoon wanting school officials to take further action in the matter, according to Auerbach. As one of the two children were not in school Friday, Auerbach said school officials told the woman the matter would have to wait until both children were in school.

Upon hearing this, the parent called police down to the middle school. No formal police report was filed.

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Auerbach said Hauppauge school officials had not received any phone calls from parents about reports of police at the school on Friday.

This incident comes two weeks after a fight among students at the Hauppauge Middle School left and questioning the school's anti-bullying policy.

"There was an altercation between a group of students at the middle school last week," said Superintendent Patricia Sullivan-Kriss at the board's Feb. 7 meeting. "As a district we followed our code of conduct and addressed the issues that existed."

Police said no report of the previous fight was made to the Fourth Precinct.


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