“If someone calls in a bomb threat, I take it as serious as anyone,” Knapp said. “But I worked with kids long enough to know they talk about doing things, but then they don’t.

“As far as I am concerned, it was a nonevent, because it didn’t happen.”

The vice principal of the high school, Bernadette Lucas, contacted authorities about the letter the next day, Thomas said.

“I was dismayed with it,” Knapp said, adding that Lucas apparently did not understand he had already dealt with the situation.

Knapp knew nothing of the authorities’ involvement until he received a phone call from Brouse’s father, saying she had been arrested late last week.

Brouse dropped out of school before being taken to the Snyder County Jail, Thomas said.

Brouse was arraigned on the charges at district court in Mifflinburg. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday at the office of District Justice Willis E. Savidge, 32 E. Market St., Middleburg.

The other students are still attending classes but face juvenile charges.

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