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well this is going to be an interesting day

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There was a death threat written in a bathroom at the high school I teach at on Monday. The district has been investigating, but have not identified anyone. The threat was specific about everyone being killed on campus today. We are still having school and there are literally cops everywhere. Some are walking around with dogs and it's just crazy. They estimated that over half of our 1800 students are not even going to show up for class today. I don't know why we just didn't cancel so this circus wouldn't have to take place. 

I can't wait for this day to be over already! 

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  • ssmb_clarinetssmb_clarinet member
    How scary! I also work at a HS and I am pretty sure I would call in "sick" if there was such a threat. I agree they should have just cancelled class. Hope your day goes as smoothly as it possibly can.
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  • rockychryslerb2010rockychryslerb2010 member

    Stay safe, hopefully just an empty threat and the extra police presence will deter anyone from actually following through.

    After Columbine, my HS had several threats (and I went to a pretty nice HS, in a very nice area), and they never cancelled class.  The yr anniversary of Columbine was the worst, they didn't cancel class, but every class was half empty.

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  • Virgo17Virgo17 member
    That sounds terrible.  I'm sure it's just an empty threat, could be kids pulling a prank hoping school would be closed.  It's unfortunate that this is the reality now...
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  • SummerOHSummerOH member

    This just happened 2 weeks ago in a neighboring district that my friend's kids go to.  They sent the kids home early when they found out.  It ended up being some kid who did it as a dare...with a sharpie.  Naturally, he freaked when he couldn't remove it (duh!).  Obviously he's in big trouble.

    Probably just an empty threat, but you never know these days.  I would be nervous, too!

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  • iluvmylabiluvmylab member

    imageVirgo17:
    That sounds terrible.  I'm sure it's just an empty threat, could be kids pulling a prank hoping school would be closed.  It's unfortunate that this is the reality now...

    Yes and I know we have to take all these precautions, but it's just sad all this money and all these resources that are being used today for what is probably a "joke." I teach in a very nice school where we rarely even have fights, so it's a big deal when something like this happens.

    Out of my soccer class this morning of 22, I had 4 kids.  WOW! 

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  • Mustardseed2007Mustardseed2007 member

    Something like that happened when I was in high school. It was the year after columbine, and it was almost rediculous the amount of security in the form of police PLUS they had parent volunteers in the hallways with walky talkies to escort anyone who needed to move around in between classes (like to go to the bathroom or go to the office or something).

    Of course not a thing happened.



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  • lexusolsenlexusolsen member
    imagelasposa425:
    Wow that is scary! Stay safe.nbsp; They should definitely cancel classes if there are cops all over the place.nbsp; That can't be good and who can concentrate with that going on anyway.


    But if they did then close schools anytime there was a threat then more kids would make threats to get out of school.
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