TORONTO — The security threat at Associated Hebrew Schools’ Posluns branch has been reduced, parents were told last week.
The school, located on Neptune Drive and serving students from nursery to Grade 5, received a threatening communication late last month. Parents were notified in a Sept. 23 e-mail from school president David Brown that the threat was related to an ongoing criminal investigation involving members of a family with two children at the school.
Last Friday, Arthur Landa, Associated’s executive director, e-mailed parents to let them know that the students concerned are no longer registered at the school.
“Based on ongoing security assessments… we have been advised that the threat to the Posluns community has been reduced significantly,” Landa wrote. “We are therefore confident in returning to our previous security protocol,” including going back to one uniformed security guard on duty.
The school has been in regular contact with UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s community security director and in turn with the Toronto Police Service, Landa wrote.
Toronto police have been investigating the threat.
