On Thursday tbere was a Bomb threat at our High School. Yay! We didn’t get excused from school or anything, we just got to sit there and pray we didn’t blow up. Fortunately, we survived. (Though a member of the maintenence crew fell off the roof and broke his leg. Well, that’s an understatement. When the EMTs came his bone was sticking out of leg)
Then today I come to school and notice that it’s oddly empty.Come to find out that there is a rumor going around school that someone is going to shoot everybody who is not white, or depending on who you hear it from, everybody who is white. Either way, I didn’t want to stick around to find out, so I came home.
Things are getting a little be frightening over here. Anybody else going through this at their High School? I’m thinking about not going to school tomorrow either. All I need is to be shot or blown up.
When in I was in highschool back in '95 we had a run of this kind of behavior. Seemed like every other day there was some race related violence going on… someone getting the crap beat out of them for what color they were. Which the rumors of which and why only perpetutated more violence.
Still, the worst were the bomb threats. We had three in one day once and they just sent us home. It eventually just got to be part of the normal day…
“Hmmm 9:15… time to walk outside and have a cigarette 'cause some a**hole’s gonna call in a bomb threat soon.”
Went on like this every day for my whole Junior year, and then we didn’t seem to have this problem the next year.
I’m sorry that you have to put up this PLG. I hope that it stops soon, or at least just continues to be rumor and threat. Even if that doesn’t seem a very pleasant wish.
We had both today at my school. Almost no one sent their kids to school. Most of the kids that did go were checked out or just left out of fear by the end of first hour. There were elaborate stories and rumors about what was going to happen, and it actually seemed plausible. But that’s all they were… rumors. The student was arrested as he got off the school bus and did not have any weapons or a hit list on him. It was a big fiasco and all the news channels were out and about town interviewing kids. Our principal was not happy with the situation at all, and I suspect that there will be some form of punishment. Try to figure that out. Punishment for being scared for your life. Oh well, that’s the way my parish (county) works. Anyways, it was just a scace, but now people really are terrified to go back to school. What if he started the rumor himself to make sure no one was at school today. That way we’d all be there tomorrow so his friends can pick us off. It’s doubtful that will happen, but it’s scary all the same. I’m sure it didn’t make national news. It’s no big deal, really. Any dopers outside of Louisiana hear anything about it?
Freshman year we had about a dozen bomb scares within a brief period of time. It was more annoying than anything.
A kid took a BB gun to school once. We all heard it was going to be a real gun, and it was terrifying to show up that day.
On the anniversary of Columbine about a third of the student body stayed home.
Let me tell you something, my SO whom I love very much is a first grade teacher. Her school has had threats concering this crap as well. A freakin elemetary school ! What is the answer ? Every time some idiot/looney shoots up a school, a hundred copycats threaten to do the same. This is an epidemic. I do not know what the answer to this problem is. If you put metal detectors at every exit you would still have to bar the windows, this seems extreme. Where does it stop ? I believe America as a whole has to deal with this or it will become even more tragic. Our children need to know that they are safe in our schools, and now it is even from each other.
This forum is made up of the most intelligent people I have ever known . . . so, how do we fix this ??
I think I will start a GQ about this.
This happened at my school last year after the Columbine thing, the most notable being on the anniversary. On two occasions there were major threats that students were going to shoot people at school, and a few smaller ones. Both times there was school, but many people didn’t come, and they shut down the school right after classes. They searched all the lockers and didn’t find anything much, did backpack searches (which was a pain every morning) and kept all the doors locked but the one by front office. Of course it turned out to be immature punks who just wanted to get a reaction, and boy did they. This year they put in security cameras, 10-ft. fences, a cage around the front entrance, and a police officer assigned to the high school, and this is a fairly small school which professes to have very little money. And none of these measures will help if someone actually wants to kill people. No actual threats yet this year, but the atmosphere of the school isn’t exactly reassuring.