people are being so stupid today. apparently these people dont have anything better to do then call and harass poor kids at school with bomb threats etc. thats just so sad. this kinda stuff makes me want to home school when my children get old enough.:confused:

My son is absolutely fine...my daughter is stressed to the point where she does not want to go to school on Monday. I told her she can stay home, but her dad disagrees. I know he is right, I just want to shelter them. Vilette, you are such a caring person as always. :)

Exactly! And how do we know which threats are to be taken seriously?? I have often thought about home schooling my son. He had a knife pulled on him in 7th grade. I told the principal and she did NOTHING!! Said it was his word against the other kid, so I decided to go over her head and get the police involved. Well an officer came to the school the following Monday, pulled the kid out of class and searched his backpack only to find numerous knifes and handmade weapons. This child was expelled, and all of his friends held my son responsible and made his life a living Hell the last two months of school. I offered to pull him out but he refused to let them get the better of him. I do admire him for that.
My son has a passion for shoes like I do for Yorkies. He has quite a few very expensive and rare Jordans that he has been threatened over. I now am very careful about what he can buy and wear to school. I see him becoming bitter, so I try to explain to him that the world is not this way, that things will be better when he gets out of school. I hope I am right.

it happened today in my nephew's school!!!! Two eigth graders decided to "bomb" the school, but it turned out to be only threats. Now these two children who have no idea of the repercussions of this have been arrested adn the kids from school are terrified...
this is so terrible!
Bless all of our children!
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In custody
 

Ok, so it is on the front page of our paper today. The kid is a 17 year old junior who is in custody now and faces felony charges for making bomb threats and terrorists threats as well as misdemeanor charges for creating a disturbance at school. Apparently there were four notes taped at varios places in the school...no specifics on what the notes said .."It was just ranting and raving about today's the day". The first not was found at 7:30 AM and school starts at 8:00AM, so in my opinion students should not have been allowed on campus at that point. Red tickets were given out randomly on Thursday saying that "if you recieve this ticket your life will be spared". Students were told to stay under desks or at least away from windows inn their classrooms with the lights out. I think that's what scared them. I had no idea that yesterday was the aniversary to the Columbine shooting.
Just wanted to update everyone. thanks again for listening.

Crazy kid! I wonder if these kids have any idea what the repercussions are when they do this kind of thing?? It is so serious even if they were not!!! I agree with you, they should not have been allowed to start school!!! Hello?
Hows your daughter doing? Does she feel better about going on Monday since the boy is in custody??
So I laughed so hard last night my cheeks still hurt!!!!! It was great....

Hi, I just saw this now. So sorry you all had to go through that :(

Pam, I'm glad they have the kid who did it. He should face felony charges. :thumbup: I hope your daughter is doing better, now that she knows that kid was caught. :) I feel for you when you said your son was bullied. Even though mine will soon be 25 years old, I will never forget that he was bullied in elementary school and when I talked to the teacher about it,she did NOTHING....:mad: I hope you can salvage some of your weekend and at least maybe tomorrow will be better for all of you. :) Take Care...

I'm glad your kids are o.k and that they caught the kid!

Their are soo many copycats out their, but also a lot of psychos so it's hard to tell when it's a sick joke or someones serious, but at least in this case everyone is o.k! I remember in my hs, after the columbine their supposedly was a hitlist found, all the students were talking about it, but we never heard the teachers say anything, or anything in the news so I think it was people who just wanted to start drama.

Once again though, I'm glad your kids are o.k. I'll say a prayer that they will continue to be safe while at school.

This happed a couple of days ago in the next town.
 

April 20, 2007 - 6:39PM
School Employees Praised for Actions in Keeping Out Teen Gunman
Scott Lawrence


A 14 year old is in custody after Beaumont police say he tried to run into Ogden Elementary school with a gun.

Authorities say they responded to a call about a fight at about 10:45 a.m. Friday at a home several blocks away from the school on Victoria Street.

They say the teen ran from police and tried to enter the elementary school, but all the doors were locked.

Officers say a parent had seen police chasing the teen, and told the principal, who locked down the school.

The juvenile is on probation.

He now faces two counts of making terroristic threats, unlawfully carrying a weapon and evading police.

This is all extremely scary. I'm glad my school was on spring break last week. Though, with all the "copycats/people thinking it's a good idea" I'm scared going back. However, I'm happy that my school is hidden in a lower residential area. It's kind of hard to find our school. I like our position better than the other elementary schools that are right by the middle and high schools.

I hope that all of you with kids/grandkids are doing okay. I'm sure all of the schools have reviewed/revised their lock down procedures.

I just saw this and am so glad no one was hurt. It is so traumatic for the kids everytime this happens. My dtr's school was in lockdown about once every couple of months but they were allowed to call. The worst one happened the day after a double murder near another school a few miles down the road. This one was a total lockdown, noone could go to the bathroom, lunch, and NO calls. One of my dtr's friends was able to call her mom (she never followed the rules and this time I was glad) and her mom called me. I called the school - they could say nothing. But the secretary must have realized how frantic parents were and she did whisper "I can't give out any info but I can answer yes or no). 1st question: Are weapons involved - NO, has anyone been hurt - NO. I felt better. It turned out to be a major drug bust with several Cafeteria workers, janitors, about 1 quarter of the senior class and the assistant principal being hauled off in handcuffs for dealing drugs to the students. Outcome - most of the kids came back to school (after getting bailed out), the Ass't Principal came the next year with a promotion - as principal and the drugs remain as readily available as they ever were. Shops are set up in the stairwells. But the students, who at the time, didn't know anything except that there was a murderer on the run, were terrified. My dtr came home in tears afraid to go back to school.

I believe that in time there will be no more schools - home schooling will be the only way to be sure your children are safe. It is such a sad, sad world.

That is ver scary but it will all work out

That is so horrible that people would do stuff like this :thumbdown :(

I hope your kids are okay