--- title: Staten Island Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Kid Fails Exam description: Allegedly made the threat to a guidance counselor canonical: https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-06T20:53:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:38.942Z og:title: Staten Island Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Kid Fails Exam og:description: Allegedly made the threat to a guidance counselor og:url: https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Staten Island Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Kid Fails Exam twitter:description: Allegedly made the threat to a guidance counselor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Daughter Fails Exam  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 6, 2015 8:53 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 6, 2015 8:53 PM UTC A New York mom is accused of threatening to blow up her kids’ high school after she found out her daughter had failed a major state test. Karen Shearon, of Staten Island, allegedly told the guidance counselor at Susan Wagner High School “I am going to blow up the school,” after the counselor called to inform her of her daughter’s failing grade, according to a criminal complaint [first reported by _DNAinfo_](http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150206/emerson-hill/woman-threatens-bomb-high-school-after-daughter-fails-exam-sources-say). She was arrested yesterday for aggravated harassment in the second degree, but has not yet been arraigned. Shearon has not yet made any public statements. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/"},"headline":"Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Daughter Fails Exam","datePublished":"2015-02-06T20:53:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:38.942Z","description":"Allegedly made the threat to a guidance counselor","url":"https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Parenting","School","Education","Mom","staten island","Daughter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3699519/staten-island-mom-school-threat/","name":"Mom Threatens to Blow Up School After Daughter Fails Exam"}}]}] ```