A student was found with a knife in their backpack at a Santa Rosa school on Tuesday, just one week after a 16-year-old was stabbed to death during an altercation with another student in a high school classroom in the same city.
Administrators at the Amarosa Academy, a small, alternative education school for grades 7 through 12, allegedly found a knife in a student’s backpack and notified the police.
Officers arrived at 9:20 a.m. and met with administrators, who told them that it is school policy to check all student’s backpacks before they enter the campus, police said.
An administrator checked the backpack of a 15-year-old student and allegedly