During Tuesday's Board of Education meeting in Danbury, members heard from the Police Chief and others about recent fights at the High School.  Chief Patrick Ridenhour told the group about the Department's response and about the ongoing investigations. 

Mayor Mark Boughton also addressed the Board of Ed.  He stopped by the school twice this week to meet with students.  Boughton talked about one rumor that was circulated online and through text messages.  The rumor was that authorities seized 5 weapons on Friday.  Boughton says that is absolutely not true.  He told the Board that there are two small group involved.  While the law says these students must be educated, it doesn't have to be at DHS and at the expense of the education of 3,000 other students.

DHS Principal Dan Donovan was also asked to shed more light on the situation.  He told the Board that there were some details that could not be made public because the students are juveniles.  There were 7 fights in the last two weeks.  5 were directly related to an ongoing issue that started last June.  The other two were unrelated. 

Donovan says disturbances are not the norm at DHS.  He noted that administrators have to spend a tremendous amount of time tracking things through technology they are not proficient in.  He says they also have to figure out who's handle is what, and what they are actually saying by what they type.

Donovan says at a school the size of DHS, he can't let a small group bring up the anxiety to what it was.  There were three different incidents, unrelated, that happened Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  He called it a perfect storm coming together to cause the problems.