Will "They" Ever Learn?
The middle school Olivia attends is on the same campus as the high school. After a $42 million ticket from tax payers and a couple years of construction, it opened in September 2004. Since that time there have been a minimum of three bomb threats per year. Finally, the school got smart and instead of canceling classes they would be evacuated to a nearby church, elementary school, and the YMCA.
Over the weekend there was another threat left on an answering machine. Now the idiots who decided to call in the threat have made it possible for each and every student on that campus to not be able to carry school bags or purses of any kind on to school property. The only bags allowed are lunch bags which must be the small paper ones.
It may sound like we live in an unsafe area. The opposite is true. It is very safe. We just have too many immature kids who think this would be a fun way to get a "free" day off of school. Most of the other kids who have called in the threats have been caught. Unfortunately, their sentences/punishments don't get much publicity so they never learn.
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Our Middle School has had one bomb threat and our High School has had two. I have a daughter at each school. These bomb threats happened before the first semester was over. No, they will never learn because they never punish them hard enough.
We are in a small community and as Diane said, we get these over and over.
The District Attorney sent a letter to every parent making them aware that if their children were caught making a threat, the PARENT would be held legally AND financially responsible.
Remember our world when we were young? Those times are, sadly, long gone.
They can start carrying backpacks again tomorrow, but they will have to be searched. Olivia said she isn't going to use one to avoid the hassle of standing in the "search" line. I think she has the right idea.
The worst that happened when I was in high school was a "walk out" because some kids said the air jam was fixed because a "rap" group didn't win. Oh boy! Those kids really needed to get a grip. It was an air jam for heaven's sake...lol.
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