Michigan junior high teacher gets 14-day jail sentence for phony bomb threat

A Michigan junior high school teacher who made a phony bomb threat to get a break from classes was hit with a 14-day jail sentence for the ill-conceived prank.

Paul Thomas Jacobs, 40, was charged with a misdemeanor count of making a violent threat against a school after leaving a note on his desk saying Hazel Park Junior High School would be “blown up” the next day

The incident, in February, forced the school into lockdown and sent cops scrambling, WDIV-TV reported.

On Tuesday, the sad sack educator was hit with two weeks in jail and two years of probation.

Jacobs, who had been teaching at the school for two years, was nabbed when security video footage at the school showed him leaving the note on his desk.

“Kids are scared,” Hazel Park Schools Superintendent Amy Kruppe said at the time of the incident. .

“Threats that continue to happen in schools are traumatizing for kids,” she said. “I don’t think you are ever numb to it.”

The Feb. 2 hoax sent as many as 10 police bomb-sniffing dogs and more than a dozen officers to the school and shut down after-school activities, WXYZ-TV reported after the incident.

“Hazel Park police have taken every case seriously within the schools and that’s wonderful because we are communicating to our community that this is not a joke,” Kruppe told the outlet.

According to the school’s website, Jacobs is no longer listed as a member of the faculty.