We got an email that there's been a bomb threat at my daughter's high school

[Connonym]

they're considering it a "low level" threat but evidently are taking it seriously enough to send out the email. I'm wondering if I should keep my daughter home from school until they determine what's going on. Is that overly paranoid?

[Lyric]

1. If it was me, I'd keep her home.

Better safe than sorry, you know?

:hug: I hope everything turns out okay.

[Cabcere]

2. We used to get bomb threats all the time at my high school

at least one every year while I was there, so I'd be more inclined to not worry as much. :shrug: I don't know the details of your situation, though, so I'd say do what you feel is best. :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Yeah, what the hell?

Give her a day off so she can post more glammy pics. :)

[Connonym]

4. She wants to go to school and her dad is in favor of that

it's so hard to know how seriously to take this shit

[Paladin]

5. Probably Phoned Or Emailed In By Some Kid.....

...who wants to get out of a chemistry exam.

But given the times, I'm glad they're taking it seriously, and no, your instincts about keeping your daughter at home are sound......

[AngryAmish]

13. That happened in our high school

[Snarkturian Clone]

6. In my first year teaching

we got like 3 a week. Admin didn't tell anyone (including teachers) about most of them. We found out that they were coming from local gang members that needed certain kids to stay home from school so they could "put in work" for the gang.

They used to leave messages like "evacuate all of the murda bloods out of the building now"

The first 4 or 5 times we would dismiss the school or evacuate for half the day. Then the principal decided to ignore them all- they stopped maybe 2 weeks later.

[TK421]

7. Off one day of school? That's not a big deal

do it...there are a bunch of crazies out there..and one day off isn't going to kill her

but a bomb might...better safe than sorry

[krispos42]

8. If they had anything at all, they'd have closed the school down.

I think it's nothing. If it was a professional attack, nobody would know anything about it until the explosion. If it was a bunch of kids... well, assuming they didn't blow themselves up in their basement, the chances of their homemade bomb actually working are minimal.

The shooters at Colombine had bombs, too. Despite weeks of planning, the bombs never went off.

Besides, phoning in a bomb threat on the weekend? If you want to destroy the school but not hurt anybody, then Sunday's the day to do it!

[Connonym]

9. Lots of men in suits at the entrances when I dropped my daughter at school today

Evidently they found something on Friday written on a bathroom wall and by Sunday hadn't fully determined the source so sent out the email to the parents. I'm not sure if the men in suits were Feds or what but evidently they're still on top of it. I'm still a bit nervous but my daughter really didn't want to miss school and her dad said I was being paranoid so she went.

[BarenakedLady]

17. That's what happened several times last year

at my daughter's intermediate school. Notes written on bathroom walls (girls).

:crazy:

[Gormy Cuss]

10. If you are comfortable with their assessment, send her.

We had bomb threats at my high school frequently and after a few the principal, with the blessing of the school board, announced that there would be no closings because of threats. That was the last time we had a bomb threat that year.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Keep her home. Listen to this story about my daughter's school and a lock down.

When she was a sophomore, a kid came into school with a gun. He pulled it out as classes were changing and some guys, (not the intended victims) tackled him. Gun flew out of his hand and landed on the floor.

The guys who tackled him roughed him and his buddy up pretty badly. School was locked down, police called, etc.

No gun was found, and despite kids from completely disparate cliques saying that they saw a gun, the principal opened the school up the next day.

Turns out the kid had hidden the gun underneath the scale in the clinic when the police took him in there to clean him up.

Can you imagine what would have happened had the friends of this kids gotten to the clinic first that morning? If the nurse wasn't trying to lose weight and stepped on the scale to discover that she had gained five pounds from the previous day?

Talk about an out of touch principal. Clueless doesn't begin to describe her.

[Deep13]

12. That should be easy to trace. n/t

[bbernardini]

14. Right after Columbine, the school where I taught had a series of threats.

The first one happened early in the morning, so as I pulled into the parking lot, I was told to turn around and go home. They got no argument from me. Later that week, the kids were evacuated from the senior high to the middle school right behind it. Then a clever person called in a threat to THAT building, so the kids were evacuated to part of the senior high that had already been cleared.

Then I was at a long-term sub job (I originally typed "joke" there...how Freudian), and there were CONSTANT threats. We kept getting evacuated, and I either lost my chorus rehearsal time because they were being evacuated, or because they were called out of rehearsal back to homeroom to get yet another letter to go home to their parents. Yet the administrators couldn't understand why the chorus wasn't doing very well. They must have been absent the day they covered cause/effect in their graduate classes.

[dembotoz]

15. jesus h christ

like you dont have enough going on.
hang in there!!!!!

[BarenakedLady]

16. They had several at my daughter's school last year

The first couple times were freaky. Then they got annoying. All were kids acting out.

[Connonym]

18. So all the kids and their jackets and backpacks had to undergo a sniff down by a bomb dog

prior to entering the school today. At least one kid my daughter knows got suspended for the dog sniffing out pot on them. They wouldn't fake a bomb threat just to have an excuse to sniff the kids would they? They can do that any old time they want, right? Daughter said that one kid got ejected from class for saying the word "bomb" and rumor is that they did suspend someone allegedly for writing the threat.

I was just glad that I made daughter take the illicit bottle of Midol out of her backpack last night. We have 5 dogs and 2 cats here and 3 cats at her dad's house so I guess the bomb dog found her backpack to smell delightfully complex and lingered that and her jacket.

[mikeytherat]

19. Was that L.C. Bird HS?

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