Summerville High School Looks To Calm Nerves After Foiled Shooting Plot

TUOLUMNE (CBS13) – Anxious families will soon be sending their kids back to the school where detectives say they uncovered a mass shooting plot before it could be carried out.

Four students at Summerville High School are accused of making a hit list of classmates and teachers.

Superintendent Robert Griffith was at the school on Sunday, planning for the tough week ahead of bringing back a sense of normalcy to campus.

"Just to bring some, you know, calm to some fearful people," Griffith said.

He says school officials and law enforcement plan on starting school Monday by speaking to all 650 students.

"They wanted to shoot and kill as many people as possible on campus," said Sheriff Jim Mele at Saturday's press conference announcing the arrests.

Even a day after the sheriff announced the arrests of four teen boys, many parents say it doesn't eliminate the fear.

But teachers say they'll be leading by example.

"I'm confident that law enforcement and our school has done everything in their power to do," said teacher Daniel Atkins. "So I'll be here tomorrow and I think most of my students will as well."

Many of Mr. Atkin's students were already back in a study session on Sunday, trying to put the alleged plot behind them.

"We have a lot of really great kids here and it's sad that this is going to taint Summerville for a while," Atkins said. "But that's the nature of reporting – you don't broadcast that we're studying academic decathlon on a Sunday night."

While people are mourning in Oregon, the flag can still fly high at Summerville High School thanks to students who were brave enough to come forward and report suspicious activity before it could turn into a mass casualty.