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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes. This BCC student's testimony in favor of Open Lunch actually works against him and his cause:

[QUOTE]The last thing I would like to touch on is the safety of the school. The year before I got to B-CC, there was a bomb threat to the school. The school was quickly put into lockdown, but had this situation been real, the dangers would’ve been catastrophic. You see, many students were off campus due to the open lunch policy. As a result, they were able to hear of the incident and could evacuate back home. My older brother was not so lucky and was trapped in the classroom where he was eating lunch. I understand that safety is a major concern of the closed lunch proposal. I would argue that this real-world incident demonstrates how students' maturity and freedom kept students out of harm's way rather than in it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share.[/QUOTE]

He's basically admitting that BCC lost track of its kids when it had a lockdown because it was during Open Lunch and kids went home or somewhere other than the school during the lockdown. That sounds like a serious liability risk to me....[/quote]

That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying often the threats to safety are inside the school building, not outside, and in a real safety situation in the building at lunch, having 2400 minimally supervised kids inside in hallways, etc. may result in more harm than if some kids happened to be in a safe location outside the building. Take for example a fire. They don’t ever do fire drills or anything at lunch time or passing hallway time because it’s chaos. They always do drills when kids are neatly in classrooms. [/quote]

I know what he [i]thinks[/i] he’s saying but he’s actually admitting that the school lost track of kids they had responsibility for during an emergency lockdown.[/quote]

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