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Alex Cabrero ReportingJoanne Ackerman: "We don't have fights here every week, every day, anything like that. We periodically have students who get involved in things they shouldn't."
Two incidents in two days. It's already been a long week for a local middle school. Police are now looking into both cases, which appear to be about fighting and drugs.
Two students were taken to the hospital today because of a possible drug overdose. It all happened at Joel Jensen Middle School in West Jordan. Both incidents have school administrators there a little concerned.
Anything that happens in our children's schools, it's natural to want to know about it right away.
Stacy Thompson: "As a parent, we need to be concerned."
But after what Stacy Thompson heard happened at her daughter's school yesterday and today, she really wants to know what's going on.
Stacy Thompson: "It has me to wanting to tell our children that we need to be concerned and worry about them as well, but we need to let them know not to be afraid as well."
Normally, Joel P. Jensen middle school in West Jordan is peaceful, but parents are concerned after two students got into a fight yesterday; one was knocked unconscious. Two more students were taken to the hospital today.
Joanne Ackerman, Principal: "We had some students who became ill in class. Teachers let us know about it."
The students were in such bad shape, paramedics had to be called. West Jordan police are also involved. They're still investigating, but they think the students broke into a house, stole prescription drugs, then overdosed on them.
Joanne Ackerman: "If they took something, we're not totally aware of that at this point."
More than anything, principal Joanne Ackerman just wants to make sure all the students are safe.
Joanne Ackerman: "We do have a great school, we have great students here. We also have middle school aged students who sometimes get in trouble because of the fact they are middle school students."
Thompson agrees, but also says you have to teach your children right from wrong.
Joanne Thompson: "Very important, because if we don't, then we have issues like we had last night."
Overall, Jordan district schools spokesperson Melinda Colton says there are hardly ever any problems at this school. She believes these are just two, unrelated incidents that just happened to happen on consecutive days. Again, police are looking into it.
