#NYC parents blast belated TikTok school shooting threat warning

City parents said the Department of Education should have warned them earlier about a TikTok school shooting threat — and that the late notice left no time to consider keeping their kids home Friday.

New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter sent out a note to principals about the unspecified threats at 11 p.m. Thursday night, according to the DOE.

Administrators were then responsible for relaying the warning to parents — and many families said they only received word Friday morning, after their kids had already headed off to class.

Community Education Council 30 member Deborah Alexander said parents in her Queens district were notified too late to potentially keep their kids away from class in light of the troubling posts.

Alexander said that word of the threats were already spiraling on social media early Thursday.

“It would have been nice for the DOE to send something out a lot earlier so parents actually had some time to make a decision,” she said.

Alexander said most people didn’t hear from their schools until the morning — and that some had already dropped their kids off by the time they were alerted.

“I think a lot of parents would have preferred to have that option,” she said. “Making that decision while you are getting ready for work in the morning is a problem.”

Alexander noted that a school in Long Island City — the New York Institute for Collaborative Education — had to lockdown for an hour Friday due to a called-in threat.

A Brooklyn high school parent said she was sent a message about the TikTok posts around 7 a.m. Friday.

“If this was going around the day before, we should have been told much earlier,” she said. “As if there isn’t enough to worry about right now.”

The DOE said it acted in a timely manner considering the unspecified nature of the threats and lack of a direct connection to New York.

“We sent letters regarding general and non-specific threats circulating on social media to schools as soon as we had credible information,” said DOE spokesperson Nathaniel Styer. “This was a general threat circulating nationwide, not specific to NYC, and schools passed on that information to families in a timely manner without delay.”