Second school district speaks out on Centerville parents overdose

UPDATE @ 2:34 p.m. 3/17/17:

"Spring Valley Academy learned yesterday morning that the parent and step-parent of two of our students passed away. We are still learning the details of the tragedy and don't want to engage in speculation and certainly want to respect the privacy of these students and their families. At the same time we are doing all we can to provide all appropriate support for them and all their classmates who are affected by this heartbreaking loss.

As a Christian community we take comfort in the promise of ultimate healing, restoration, and resurrection but at the moment we are deeply grieving with our students and their families."

FIRST REPORT 3/16/17

Centerville City Schools district will have guidance counselors "on call and on deck as needed" today after the parents of two Centerville students apparently overdosed.

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Centerville City Schools Superintendent Tom Henderson said said the district's crisis team decides how to react to student and staff needs.

"We try to think about all the connections, associations, friendships … direct and indirect contacts people have," Henderson said. "Sometimes it's hard to get a handle on that until the kids come in."

Brian and Courtney Halye died in what Centerville police and Montgomery County coroner's officials said may have been a drug-related incident. The pair had married in recent years, and each had two children from a previous relationship.

Two of the children attended Centerville's Tower Heights Middle School and two attended another district.

"We have a good relationship with Centerville Police, and … they filled me in as best they knew at that point in time," Henderson said of Thursday morning's 911 call and discovery. "It was amazing -- by the time I was going where I needed to go and making phone calls, people were already in the know -- their phones already blowing up and they were getting information quickly."

Henderson said so many students know each other not only from school, but from sports and other cross-community activities that a tragedy like this can have a wider impact that people might think.

"You try to think of everything … where you need to provide support," Henderson said.

The school district did not send any communication to parents because the students' names have not been released.

"These two students have come up through our district, so we try to be cognizant of that and get out to the other buildings they've attended and cover their teachers they had," Henderson said. "We'll be ready tomorrow when students come in, and we'll be ready when the students (in that family) come back to attend school again."

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