Nathan wrote:
While vague threats to celebrities and "I'ma kill Joe, he's a dickwad" are often reverted and ignored as simple and unserious vandalism, school threats have a unique nature in public sentiment and require a unique position in policy.
I don't agree with this leap of logic. They only "require" a unique position in policy if your only consideration is public relations. If your consideration also includes morality, then they require quite the opposite---carefully considering the situation and making an informed judgment as to the pros and cons of various courses of action. A policy that requires all school threats to be reported would probably be the best policy for cover-your-ass PR in hindsight if anything happened, but it would certainly not be ethical to ruin children's lives over obviously not-credible threats.
-Mark