Information also was posted on the district's website.Įven so, 'we got a few more calls this morning than we usually do,' Kasun said. Parents were notified by computer telephone call which stressed that students were safe. The man only attempted to enter the two middle schools, he said. It involved all eight schools, Kasun explained, because the buildings are so close to one another. The blinds to the classrooms were closed. The measure, which allows pupils to move freely from class to class and the cafeteria, does not permit anyone to leave or enter the building.

The situation stemmed from a man involved in a custody dispute over his daughter, who no longer attends Freehold Township schools, according to a letter sent home to parents from Assistant Superintendent Neal Dickstein. Eisenhower Middle School on Burlington Road, which also found no student enrolled under that name there, 'and that is when we put the pieces together and went into shelter in place,' Kasun said. The man tried the same thing at Dwight D. Barkalow Middle School on Stillwells Corner Road, seeking to be buzzed in to retrieve a student, but was turned away when school officials found there was no such student enrolled.

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A man involved in a custody fight apparently set off a chain of events that led all eight district schools to spend about 45 minutes Tuesday morning locked down.Īccording to Schools Superintendent Ross Kasun, a man approached Clifton T.

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