Freedom High School in Tampa, Florida, like every public high school in America, can only try to keep an eye on students like 17-year old Jared Kano who weave in and out of their programs.  Average neighborhood schools in good communities consider approximately 20% of their students  “at risk.”    That can be as many as EIGHT HUNDRED students in a giant-size, urban public high school.  Police found all the equipment needed to create powerful and dangerous pipe bomb explosions in Kano’s bedroom, and also found writings, a timetable and quotes like, “Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten” populating his surroundings.  Fox News and indicate that the crime could have been catastrophic as Freedom High School shares lunch facilities with a neighboring middle school:

“The plot targeted specific school administrators and any students who were nearby, police said. Authorities did not name the administrators nor would they disclose who tipped them off about the alleged plot.

Cano’s mother consented to a police search Tuesday evening, Castor said. In addition to the bomb-making

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materials, police reported they also found a marijuana-growing operation.”

Cano faces felony charges of possessing bomb-making materials, threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device, cultivating marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.  Authorities say Cano had multiple juvenile arrests.   Charges have included burglary, carrying a concealed weapon, altering serial numbers on a firearm and drug possession.   All have been either dismissed or no action has been taken.

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Filed under: Education, Featured, Inside The KC, Sonja Eddings Brown by Sonja Eddings Brown, Aug 17, 2011