A Burgard High School student was arrested Thursday for bringing a BB gun to school. The arrest came a day after the State Comptroller’s Office released an audit stating that Burgard could have been labeled a “persistently dangerous” school if it hadn’t improperly reported its incidents of school violence in 2011-12.
“During daily rounds, a student was discovered to be in possession of an unloaded BB gun,” district spokeswoman Elena Cala said by email. “The District’s standard disciplinary procedures were followed, which included an arrest of the student by the Buffalo Police Department.”
The gun was not brandished, according to district and school sources. According to teachers, an assistant principal discovered the BB gun in the student’s jacket.
The arrest comes on the heels of a comptroller’s audit that revealed Burgard improperly recorded incidents of violence and crime during the 2011-12 school year, counting suspensions instead of actual incidents. Had the school followed the proper procedures, the audit found, Burgard may have met the threshold as one of the state’s “persistently dangerous schools.”
