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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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/[/quote]

"Rocky Hill, which opened three years ago [in the building that is now Clarksburg High School], is surrounded by rolling farm land dotted by homes, silos and wooden barns. It is a tight-knit community where relatively few students transfer in and out and a small enough school that the principal knows most students by name, teachers said.

Some parents praised school officials for evacuating the children quickly while keeping them calm. Others said they were surprised to learn of a bomb in the mostly rural northern Montgomery suburb.

"I'm dumbfounded," said Celia Hanson, 38, who picked up her sixth-grade son, Sam, from the Damascus High auditorium after hearing the news. "We figured we're in the suburbs out here and protected.""

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