Blair bomb threat
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Anonymous
Ditto! |
Anonymous
Life's a better teacher than parents |
Anonymous
| Anyone know what the status is? My kid is not texting me back! |
Anonymous
| Kids still aren’t in. I hope they call it soon. |
Anonymous
| Just heard at 9:25 that there was an email telling them to report to 3rd period. I haven’t seen it yet. |
Anonymous
| They just got the all clear. |
Anonymous
Of course it's a false alarm. Here it's more assault weapons. In my high school in Paris, we got bomb threats that seemed more serious, since there were real bombs in the Paris metro at that time. |
Anonymous
| How often does this happen in a year? Is this a pre-homecoming prank to be visited annually?? |
Anonymous
| Our kid is a junior and this is the first bomb threat I can remember. Still haven’t received word about when/how to report to school. |
Anonymous
| My DC is a sophomore and this is the first time we've experienced a bomb threat. |
Anonymous
How? They just go to their classes, which started up again an hour ago with third period. |
Anonymous
They are back in the building; reporting to 3rd period. I am surprised some parents are being so cavalier about this. New parent here. I was glad the administration took it seriously. There was quite a large police presence at all points. |
Anonymous
Bomb threats happened in my MCPS high school in the '90s. They're usually done by kids who 1) Think it's funny and just want to cause chaos at school 2) Mentally disturbed kids who are acting out as a cry for attention 3) Kids who want to get out of a test or assignment they aren't ready for a need an excuse It's not new. Doesn't mean you don't take each threat seriously, because you never know if or when it will be real this time, but it's an old tactic kids have been using to disrupt the school environment for decades. For example, in 1998, an actual pipe bomb was found at a Clarksburg middle school: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/02/28/pipe-bomb-is-found-at-md-middle-school/22220266-4258-4997-a899-1981908e5526/ |
Anonymous
| Not only are bomb threats common at schools but there's been a serial bomb threatener in the area for the past year or so. They've shut down malls, government sites, public areas for a while. |
Anonymous
I’m not a new parent. I had a third grader on 911. I’m also a teacher and know fake bomb threats are pretty common, especially certain times of year. They are meant to disrupt schools. If someone really want to harm our kids physically, they wouldn’t warn us. DS came home. He’ll return after lunch. |