A fifth-grader was arrested on a felony charge Nov. 16 after he allegedly made bomb threats that disrupted classes at the Simsboro, La., consolidated high school for four hours. The youth was caught when school officials used a telephone service to trace the call.

The student was to have had a disciplinary conference at the Lincoln Parish School Board office at 8 a.m. By the time the youth and a parent arrived, 30 minutes late, school officials...