04:57 PM EST on Friday, February 25, 2005

It happened Tuesday and Wednesday at tiny, close-knit St. Clement School in southwest Jefferson County. Students in the eighth grade class were told by a 13-year-old classmate to go read about themselves on livejournal.com, where teens meet online to talk about their lives.

What the students read scared them. Their classmate wrote that they deserved to die and asked for someone to do the killing for her.

A St. Clement parent found the web site and copied the student’s postings, one of which was titled, "I Hate My School.” The student wrote, "I do wish someone would shoot them. And if anyone wants to shoot them for me, just go over to St. Clement and shoot all the eighth graders except me. I'm the girl that everyone hates. Wouldn't that be fun? Like a Hitler thing."

The girl added, "If you kill my class for me, you can come on vacation with me.” The student also wrote, "I swear if you gave me a knife and put me in the same room as everyone in my class right now you don't know how tempted I’d be to stab all of them.”

The parent who first read that called Metro Police, who told St. Clement's principal about the threat.

Superintendent Leisa Speer says the principal contacted the parents of the 11 other eighth graders and ordered a mental evaluation for the student making the threats. One parent told us by phone the school principal brushed off the threat until parents read it. Another parent says the principal took immediate action.

Superintendent Speer says a determination on whether the threatening student will be allowed to return to St. Clement won't be made until her mental evaluation is complete and it's determined whether she was just joking or serious.

No criminal charges have been filed against the teenage girl.

The Jefferson County Public Schools' policy on dealing with death threats is similar to the catholic schools: the student is suspended, police and parents are notified. The decision on criminal charges is generally left up to police or the parents of specific students who may have been threatened.

Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.