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what would you do?
Posted: April 18, 2007 8:59 pm
by parrotsgirl
I guess tonite, I just don't know where to put all that has transpired in the last week. Watching the news and hurting so much for all of those people from VT, like all of you has broken my heart, and may I say as a mother w/a child going to school away from home, in Va, it felt like it really hit home.
Then yesterday my son brings home a notice that the school has had a threat. That all kids can not bring any type of bag to school for the rest of the week. In the threat it mentions how April 20th is the anniversary of Columbine High.
I guess with all the media we're all going to have to be on alert, and worry about "Copy Cats" out there. I'm sure i'm not the only parent who has concern.
So tonite I sit here wondering if i'm doing the right thing by sending my son to school the next few days or if I'm taking a chance putting him in harms way.
I guess I'm asking what any of you would do???...
and while we're at it...We should just send out a bunch of PHIN POWER to this country, this world.....that it finds a way to get hold of all the violence....
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:03 pm
by SchoolGirlHeart
*Exactly* what kind of a threat? From whom? What format?
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:07 pm
by parrotsgirl
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:*Exactly* what kind of a threat? From whom? What format?
ya know...after I hit submit, I thought....I should just PM Jen
a threat that there would be a shooting in the school....
they don't know from whom, just that it was an email from the school library...
Police were and are going to be in the school through out the day....
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:16 pm
by ragtopW
IMHO.. teach the Keets to Be aware..
and this might come off wrong..
if it ever happens make the F**er hit a moving target
do not stand still or go to your knees.
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:18 pm
by SchoolGirlHeart
are they going to run all the kids through metal detectors? even without backpacks, lots of things can be hidden under shirts....
are they investigating the email?
hmmm.... I dunno.... I hate to let the bad guys win, but unless they can nail this down better, or run ALL the kids through a metal detector, I'd consider keeping Shane-O home...... it's probably a hoax, but on the chance that it's not......
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:20 pm
by SchoolGirlHeart
ragtopW wrote:IMHO.. teach the Keets to Be aware..
and this might come off wrong..
if it ever happens make the F**er hit a moving target
do not stand still or go to your knees.
what Santa said.... run like the wind.... and zig-zag....
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:27 pm
by z-man
I too have kids in college, but I am not going to worry any more about them today than I did a week ago.
While it is tragic that over 30 people were killed in Virginia, the other 300 million people in the country lived their life with nothing unusual happening that day.
We can spend our time worrying, or we can accept that we have taught the keets the best we could, and let them live their own life.
I choose to think that they will make their way safely through whatever obstacles life throws at them; in the unlikely event they want their parent's opinion or concern, they will let us know!
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:28 pm
by Moonie
backpaks haven't been allowed at the HS school I worked at in OK for some years....
and at one time the dress code required shirts to be tucked inside their pants...
you'd not believe what can be hidden underneath a shirt tail that's worn on the outside.
Camden County, Ga. has locked down the high school 3 times this year, due to bomb threats.
but ...then..tomorrow is the 19....might want to rethink going to a Federal Office Building, especially one that has offices of the ATF.....
it's become a very dangerous world....
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:33 pm
by parrotsgirl
z-man wrote:I too have kids in college, but I am not going to worry any more about them today than I did a week ago.
While it is tragic that over 30 people were killed in Virginia, the other 300 million people in the country lived their life with nothing unusual happening that day.
We can spend our time worrying, or we can accept that we have taught the keets the best we could, and let them live their own life.
I choose to think that they will make their way safely through whatever obstacles life throws at them; in the unlikely event they want their parent's opinion or concern, they will let us know!
I guess I should of expressed my worry was more w/my 15yr old and what was going on at the moment....I agree life will go on and we have to hope for the best
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:36 pm
by parrotsgirl
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:are they going to run all the kids through metal detectors? even without backpacks, lots of things can be hidden under shirts....
are they investigating the email?
hmmm.... I dunno.... I hate to let the bad guys win, but unless they can nail this down better, or run ALL the kids through a metal detector, I'd consider keeping Shane-O home...... it's probably a hoax, but on the chance that it's not......
No they aren't Jen....and that's my thing...Shane said today all they had to do was open thier sweatshirts.....
yes they are investigating it....nothing has turned up yet...
I was thinkin the same thing.....it's almost vacation, and hopefully by the end of next week they will have found out where it all comes from
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:37 pm
by SchoolGirlHeart
z-man wrote:I too have kids in college, but I am not going to worry any more about them today than I did a week ago.
While it is tragic that over 30 people were killed in Virginia, the other 300 million people in the country lived their life with nothing unusual happening that day.
We can spend our time worrying, or we can accept that we have taught the keets the best we could, and let them live their own life.
I choose to think that they will make their way safely through whatever obstacles life throws at them; in the unlikely event they want their parent's opinion or concern, they will let us know!
as another parent of a college student, I agree.
otoh, with a specific threat, as in the case with Shane's school, I'd have to carefully weigh whether I thought the threat had any merit.....
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:50 pm
by Sidew13
The high school I went to, and in my town, was cleared out today due to a bomb treat. What is this world coming to
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:54 pm
by tikitatas
Our community police liaison officers were at our school today to review lockdown procedures. Right now, our school is undergoing some revovations and we have 5 portable classrooms that are not linked to the main building by phone.
Someone has to run to us to anounce a lockdown.
Posted: April 18, 2007 9:56 pm
by SchoolGirlHeart
tikitatas wrote:Our community police liaison officers were at our school today to review lockdown procedures. Right now, our school is undergoing some revovations and we have 5 portable classrooms that are not linked to the main building by phone.
Someone has to run to us to anounce a lockdown.
*wince*.....
those portable classrooms need walkie talkies. cheap, and they carry for up to two (or ten, depending on model) miles....
Posted: April 18, 2007 10:08 pm
by tikitatas
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:tikitatas wrote:Our community police liaison officers were at our school today to review lockdown procedures. Right now, our school is undergoing some revovations and we have 5 portable classrooms that are not linked to the main building by phone.
Someone has to run to us to anounce a lockdown.
*wince*.....
those portable classrooms need walkie talkies. cheap, and they carry for up to two (or ten, depending on model) miles....
Just what the police told them. They are being delivered tomorrow, Jen.
Posted: April 18, 2007 10:09 pm
by parrotsgirl
tikitatas wrote:SchoolGirlHeart wrote:tikitatas wrote:Our community police liaison officers were at our school today to review lockdown procedures. Right now, our school is undergoing some revovations and we have 5 portable classrooms that are not linked to the main building by phone.
Someone has to run to us to anounce a lockdown.
*wince*.....
those portable classrooms need walkie talkies. cheap, and they carry for up to two (or ten, depending on model) miles....
Just what the police told them. They are being delivered tomorrow, Jen.
Well that is good to hear Cate.....
They are thinking about not using the portables on Friday.....
Posted: April 18, 2007 10:41 pm
by MacPhin
parrotsgirl wrote:tikitatas wrote:SchoolGirlHeart wrote:tikitatas wrote:Our community police liaison officers were at our school today to review lockdown procedures. Right now, our school is undergoing some revovations and we have 5 portable classrooms that are not linked to the main building by phone.
Someone has to run to us to anounce a lockdown.
*wince*.....
those portable classrooms need walkie talkies. cheap, and they carry for up to two (or ten, depending on model) miles....
Just what the police told them. They are being delivered tomorrow, Jen.
Well that is good to hear Cate.....
i saw your town on the news while at the gym. i'm over in merrimac , ma but i'm up your way all the time. especially since i am now working off the river road exit , rt 93 in s. law/andover.
hope nothing happens up there.
They are thinking about not using the portables on Friday.....