The case of a pair of friends, students charged with making bomb threats at Guilderland High School, highlights two problems — how police treat people with disabilities and how 16-year-olds in New York are currently treated as adults under the law while 15-year-olds aren’t. New legislation will soon raise the age to 18.

The case of the other charged student, who is 15, is being pursued in Family Court.

Far fewer police were called to the scene one week ago when an email bomb threat came in to an administrator’s email from a student’s school account. 

A Guilderland administrator was emailed Monday evening warning that a bomb would go off at the high school the next day.

A Voorheesville school district official said a bomb threat and vandalism in the same week are unrelated incidents.

“There is a bomb in this school,” was written on the wall of a bathroom stall, according to the Albany County Sheriff's Office. Students returned from evacuation in time for lunch.