# Another School Closing Because of Threats of Violence. How Many More? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977 "2015-12-21T05:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977/1 "2015-12-21T05:12:26Z")
> [@](#): > > All schools in Nashua, New Hampshire, will be closed Monday after the district received a “detailed threat of violence” directed at its two high schools. > > Officials don’t know how credible the threat is. But given its specificity and the fact that it extends to more than one school, school district Superintendent Mark Conrad asked all students to stay home out of an abundance of caution. > > The Nashua School District includes 12 elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools. > > “We have received a detailed threat of violence to harm students and staff at both high schools,” Conrad said. > **[Nashua, New Hampshire, closes schools after threat of violence | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/nashua-new-hampshire-violence-threat-school-closed/)** > > All public schools in Nashua, New Hampshire, were closed Monday after the district received a “detailed threat of violence” directed at its two high schools. Do you suppose a student there found a copy of the Los Angeles threat and did a little editing? I wonder how many more of these we will see? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977/2 "2015-12-21T05:33:16Z")
Surprised that any schools are open. Don’t most close for the holidays by now? The university where I work finished final exams over a week ago and we’re closed until after the 1st. They save considerable money by closing and turning down the heat in the buildings. We get a few holiday days and use a few vacation days to fill the off time. Calling in threats will probably be a routine thing in the up coming year. Idiots hear about it happening in one location and want to imitate. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977/3 "2015-12-21T16:14:49Z")
They seem to have done a good job of tracking down the maker of the LA/NY threats. We can hope that throwing someone in jail will deter others from going this route. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977/4 "2015-12-22T11:01:33Z")
I’m puzzled why people are acting like this is something new. Bomb threats have happened as long as I can remember, usually from some doofus trying to avoid a test. My high school was evacuated several times during my senior year (1974). It got to be a joke after a while and they stopped sending us home and sent us to the football bleachers. I’d really like to read the text in one of these “credible threats” sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-school-closing-because-of-threats-of-violence-how-many-more/740977/5 "2015-12-23T03:23:03Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > They seem to have done a good job of **tracking down the maker of the LA/NY threats**. We can hope that throwing someone in jail will deter others from going this route. I seem to have missed seeing this story. Do you have a link?