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A few months before two students at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado killed one student and injured eight others, one parent told the school that he feared the school's climate would spawn another Columbine.
Columbine High School, where 13 students and professors died and 21 others were injured in a 1999 shooting, is only seven miles from the STEM school.
9News reports that parents' concerns were documented in a letter from Daniel Winsor, Director of Choice Planning at the Douglas County School District, and sent to Penelope Eucker, STEM's Executive Director, in December.
In the letter, Winsor said that the parent – who wished to remain anonymous – said: "Many students are suicidal and violent at school" and the environment "high pressure" at the school. school was a "perfect storm" that could lead to "a repeat of Columbine or Arapahoe."
A female student armed with a machete, three Molotov cocktails and a pump-action shotgun killed Claire Davis, a student at Arapahoe High School, before killing herself during a shootout in 2013.
Eucker told 9News that an investigation had been opened into the allegations, but that she had "found no evidence to support the allegations made in the anonymous complaint," including that Board members had embezzled money and laundered human excrement in China and Mexico with their bare hands.
She then filed a civil suit against the anonymous appellant for "making defamatory statements" and sent a letter to the parents denying the charges.
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