School Shooting Threat in East Cobb, the year of Columbine.

I remember when a sophomore male at the East Cobb HS where I taught threatened to kill students in my class and in the school at large because he was continuously bullied by this group of boys. One female student was very upset when she heard the boy say it out loud,so she was crying in class, so I sent for an administrator to come talk to the girl and to talk to the boy.  The A-team refused to come,saying to my Department Chair, that I was "overreacting", so I wrote a letter to them, documenting the case and talking about the danger held within student threats. I also mailed a copy of the letter to myself through the USPS so that would have a legal record of my report. I wrote that we we lived in a dangerous society where school shootings had already occurred in Kentucky and Arkansas,and that we should take every threat seriously. The administration laughed at me and called me "overly-dramatic." Two weeks later, the Columbine shootings occurred and the U.S. entered a new age of terror in schools. Though no one died that day in East Cobb, and we were blessed and spared, would it have been so hard for the school leaders to listen to the children and the teacher?