It’s official, Carlos Pellegrini High School students REALLY don’t want to go to school. The Buenos Aires public high school recently received it’s 61st bomb threat…. this year.

The most recent threat forced the school to evacuate 4,000 students and staff at midday as bomb squads searched the buildings. As in the previous 60 times, no bomb was found.

Schools throughout Buenos Aires received 100 bomb threats last year, with 60 reported at Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini alone.

Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini alone

The bomb threats at Carlos Pellegrini were sparked by changes in school curriculum, an explosive topic at a school highly respected for it’s academic rigor. The competitive school carries a reputation for having a militant student body and at one point bomb threats were being called in daily, bringing the school year to a halt. The inability to stem the bomb threats and open a dialog with the students led to the resignation of the school’s rector, Juan Carlos Viegas. Interim rector Hector Pastorino led off the school year with an interview on Radio 10 where he refused to make any changes to the curriculum.

The resumption of bomb threats followed shortly there after.

Using call records police were able to track some of the threats to the cell phone of a 13-year-old boy, but he was not accused of calling in all 60 threats. The recent bomb threat remains unsolved.

Related

Wikipedia: Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini

Official Site: Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini (Spanish)

Volvieron las Amenazas de Bomba al Carlos Pellegrini (Clarin)