• Is your school freaking out over the shootings?
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Every school in my county has called in more cops to patrol and they've issued a statement to parents over some message on Facebook in FLORIDA. Some kid made a meme about "don't come to school tomorrow" and it has spread up to North Carolina, my state. My wife is stupidly scared and wants to go get our son from school over this. Anyone else hearing this bullshit?
Our campus is business as usual, and I asked my brother and our High School is also business as usual. But then again no one has been posting "don't come to school tomorrow" memes here so ymmv because sensationalism is a hell of a drug.
If you're hearing rumors about school shootings in your kid's school from other worried parents, on Facebook, or etc, I would honestly keep my kids home. I wouldn't want to risk my kid's life in these crazy times of teens wanting to be famous and shooting up their school to achieve being recognized. It's shit but these are insane times to be living in honestly. I'd rather my kid missed a few days of school for no reason than went to school and got killed for no reason..
That reminds me when there was a bomb threat at my school when on was in high school and they still made everyone go to class. Except they had a couple of cops at the front door checking everyone's bag. My parents still made me go to school, and I went to school late that day. I had to walk past all the classroom windows. I felt like everyone thought I was going to blow the school up because I was the quiet kid who never really talked to anyone. It was super awkward, but the kid who originally made the threat came out about it later.
The only event that I can recall was Sandy Hook. I was beginning college, but my friend was still in HS. I feared for his safety and texted him to see if the school was ok. He was fine, but him and several friends were scared out of their wits. They thought the school was going to be next. He graduated a year later and moved to Texas for a sports degree. I'm glad he's doing good now.
Never heard any school shootings in here. Probably because guns are restricted for the police only
The school I went to had so many bomb threats every year, so high police presence was normal, but they have had a lot more police there now from what I've heard. They have had some threats following Parkland, unfortunately, and some people got arrested for it.
When I went to school, it was mainly bomb threats. Some kid would write on the walls in the bathroom that they will blow it up, forcing lockdowns.
I'm from North Carolina too, I don't know how bad it is, but I graduated a year ago and someone got O.S.S for posting a picture of a nerf gun and saying "don't come to school tomorrow"
[QUOTE=Quark:;53154300]If you're hearing rumors about school shootings in your kid's school from other worried parents, on Facebook, or etc, I would honestly keep my kids home. I wouldn't want to risk my kid's life in these crazy times of teens wanting to be famous and shooting up their school to achieve being recognized. It's shit but these are insane times to be living in honestly. I'd rather my kid missed a few days of school for no reason than went to school and got killed for no reason..[/QUOTE] I'm sure they're still far more likely to die just from being driven to school than actually being victim of a shooting. So I'd consider it pretty silly if people pulled their kids just because of the national news. Albeit, depends what you mean by rumors about school shootings. Even some of the more absurd things like when someone wrote "he dropped a bomb in there" next to a toilet and got a school shut down for a day, yeah may as well just let 'em have the day off.
They've re-stated that all doors should be locked once class starts but that was a pre-existing policy nobody followed.
"We're just so apathetic here that a nuke could on it's way to kill us and we'd be surprised that something happened in this city." -guy in the college gaming club on why my campus doesn't have many political-related incidents and that's still true, it's been pretty much business as usual.
They have the cops who usually sit in their cars and make sure people aren't speeding in pairs rather than just one car. Also every couple hours one of them comes in and does a walk around of the library but I'm sure its just because he's getting coffee which is what he does every time.
[QUOTE=slayer20;53155277]That reminds me when there was a bomb threat at my school when on was in high school and they still made everyone go to class. Except they had a couple of cops at the front door checking everyone's bag. My parents still made me go to school, and I went to school late that day. I had to walk past all the classroom windows. I felt like everyone thought I was going to blow the school up because I was the quiet kid who never really talked to anyone. It was super awkward, but the kid who originally made the threat came out about it later.[/QUOTE] my middle school had a meeting in the auditorium once and it had something to do with columbine, and i was the same kinda kid. immediately after was lunch and suddenly some girls i had never seen sat with me for the entire time. it was super awkward and weird for me and i didnt know what to do. felt like they just sat with me because they were afraid i was gonna shoot up the school too from being lonely or some shit. never even saw them again either.
not when I went to school because I live in Australia, not the US
When I went to school there was this one day we had more cops than usual wandering around and the world's most obvious fucking plain clothes police standing around and it turned out a couple weeks later someone had reported two kids talking about shooting and having guns in their trunk except it turned out those kids were talking about [I]paintball[/I] guns because they were planning a paintball trip
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