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[quote=Anonymous][quote] First, there were still students in the building for after-school activities. If shelter in place was warranted for the school 100 feet away, it was warranted for people still at Williamsburg. Second, if there was cause for concern about the safety of students out on the field, they all should have at least been given the option of coming into the building rather than being told to leave the premises. If there were kids there who weren’t Williamsburg students, I don’t know how much authority the school would have had over them, but telling Williamsburg students they had to leave the premises rather than at least giving them an option to shelter inside was irresponsible. Some of those students live inside what had been cordoned off for the Yorktown response so just going home wasn’t a feasible option at the moment. Williamsburg did not care.

And if there truly was not threat in the community to warrant sheltering in place, then APS should re-evaluate why Discovery was ordered to do so, putting lots of young children through trauma.[/quote]

Perhaps the field was cleared as part of the Discovery lockdown (which definitely seemed to be OTT).

We live inside the cordoned off area. My WMS student and friends who also live in the cordoned off area got home just fine. Many of the police in the area were joking and shooting the breeze with parents who had come to pick up their kids. People were walking dogs, it was a beautiful day, and the kids walking were safe as can be.[/quote]

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