yesterday (wednesday) we had a bomb threat at my school, so we got piled into the auditorium, and it took them about 20 mins to tell us what the heck was going on... there was dogs and like 6 or 7 cops, ambulence and fire trucks..they said they checked all the lockers and there was nothing. so after about an hour and a half, they shipped us back to class.. now about an hour ago, i find out that they did find a bomb, and brought the kid to court... now i'm trying to figure out... why the hell didn't they tell us?? we may not be 18, but we deserve to know!:lossinit:

what do you guys think?


-kate-

I think my dad was SOOOO lucky to have been a teenager and grown up in the 50s !!!
I remind him of that all the time,
He agrees !!!

I had to bring my sons glasses to school to give him one morning a few weeks ago as he had forgotten them.......I get there and you have to be buzzed into the front door and its like a friggen police state in there!:hs: What a shame....amazing how things change in 25 years since I went to school....I don't envy kids today and I feel bad for mine!

...sure ain't mayberry anymore :doh: funny my folks used to say they were glad to grow up when they did- now i know what they mean't.

why the hell didn't they tell us?? we may not be 18, but we deserve to know!:lossinit:

what do you guys think?


-kate-


Because, unfortunately, half the kids at school would have used that as an excuse to blow off class the rest of the day, not saying you, but others yes....thats why they didn't say anything.

And since they found it and took care of it.....the safest place for all the kids would be in school. (God I sound like my Father)

yea, times have changed.... too much...! theres way to many morons out there now, and i hate it bute hey, what am i gonna do.. this changed my perspective on school, see i loved school and i still do, cause i get to see my friends, and all i do is laugh, i like my teachers, and my classes except for 1, but it's cool...but now, i'm a bit more cautious when i go into school,everytime i walk through the doors, i'll be reminded of it..

I had to bring my sons glasses to school to give him one morning a few weeks ago as he had forgotten them.......I get there and you have to be buzzed into the front door and its like a friggen police state in there!:hs: What a shame....amazing how things change in 25 years since I went to school....I don't envy kids today and I feel bad for mine!


oh yeah.. and on top of it at my school, everyone needs id cards to carry around... gotta show it every morning to the 2 cops at the door now..this is nothing....the middle school here... thats where the drugs are and the more likely place to find a bomb..the building looks like a prision, and the way things are run there, is insane.. the prinicipal dislikes me, from my middle school years i tried being a rebel.. but never broke anything... i am SO GLAD i am out of that school.. turned my life around... now we just gotta get my sister outta that school..

They just arrested some guy over in Hilton Head a week or 2 ago for calling in a bomb threat at one of the schools. The guy did it to get his brother out of class.

I don't blame ya, I'd want to know if there was bomb.

But you just learned the most important lesson of your high school years: Don't follow people blindly. And don't put your life in anyone's hands unless you have taken an oath to do so. Below there is little story about what happens to those who let other people make life-and-death decisions for them.

As people were leaving the second tower at the WTC (after the plane hit the first one) there was announcement telling the people to go back to their offices. One company, a Japanese software firm, had all Japanese managers who promptly went back up the stairs and encouraged their American employees to do the same. To a person, the Americans refused to go back and got out in plenty of time before the second 767 came down the corridor. We still think for ourselves in America - that has not changed.

Katie....

I'm sure it had something to do with keeping everyone calm at the time. It may sound out of wack but if they said they found a "device" then one kid would tell mom, who would tell 40 other people and the press would swarm on the school touting "remember Columbine" stuff and getting everyone riled up even more.

It's very unfortunate in this day and age that this is happening every day. We even get it in our small 4,000 resident town....downright shameful!

I'm sure it had something to do with keeping everyone calm at the time. It may sound out of wack but if they said they found a "device" then one kid would tell mom, who would tell 40 other people and the press would swarm on the school touting "remember Columbine" stuff and getting everyone riled up even more.

Its called a "need to know basis"

You didn't need to know. Period.
The ensueing panic that it would have caused would have been worse than the current situation.

The superintendant of schools probably recognizes a negative public relations if the school was evacuated thus creating a lower supportive voter turn out upon the next superintendant of school election.

Everything worked out well that way it went which is good.

There is a story about a kid who died while choking himself to get a high!:fishslap:

Sounds like fun !!! NOT !!!:hs:

Katie, I gotta tell ya : What I think is messed up is that they piled you kids in the auditorium and didn't get you all out of the building. Suppose the bomb was in the auditorium. They would have helped the bombers. Question authority, at least they'll have to think of an answer.

Katie, I gotta tell ya : What I think is messed up is that they piled you kids in the auditorium and didn't get you all out of the building. Suppose the bomb was in the auditorium. They would have helped the bombers. Question authority, at least they'll have to think of an answer.

Auditoriums are the first place they run the dogs through.

Part of the reasoning for not running the kids out of the school is to avoid situations with remotely detonated bombs, said bomber sees the kids coming out, sets off the bomb, dead kids.

Going to the auditorium is the easiest method of crowd control in a school situation with the lowest visual impact around the school.

Yeah i get the calm part, but eh at least nobody got hurt and there was no purple mist. seems like everywhere i look for the past 2 or 3 weeks theres been mention of a bomb, but in the end everything turns out okay which is good.. i guess theres just a lot of really stupid morons in this world we gotta watch out for and just make sure to make sure we dont become like them..

Auditoriums are the first place they run the dogs through.

Part of the reasoning for not running the kids out of the school is to avoid situations with remotely detonated bombs, said bomber sees the kids coming out, sets off the bomb, dead kids.

Going to the auditorium is the easiest method of crowd control in a school situation with the lowest visual impact around the school.


my history teacher was telling us why they put us in the auditorium, its because a few years back, some kid called in a bomb threat and the school got evacuated, and nobody knew that the kid was outside the school hiding behind this hill, and took out about 30 people with a sniper riffle..so i'd rather be in the auditorium..