Coweta schools

will no longer be evacuated after every bomb threat.

That was the

verdict Monday night when the Coweta County Board of Education passed

a new policy concerning bomb threats.

So far this

year, the school system has been inundated with phony bomb threats. The

principals at the various schools would evacuate the buildings and nothing

would be found.

"We've

lost a lot of instructional time. We had to do something," said Superintendent

of Education Richard Brooks.

The new policy

will now allow the principals the option of not evacuating the schools

or not. Brooks said all the principals in the school system will attend

training sponsored by the Georgia Emergency Management Association and

the FBI to give them guidelines on when to evacuate the building.

Brooks added

that it's almost more dangerous to evacuate the buildings.

"In the

Arkansas school shooting, you had a student pull the fire alarm to get

everybody outside, so the shooting could start," he said.

Although the

policy was adopted, Brooks said the schools will continue to be evacuated

until all the training is completed.