Bomb Threat - Would you send your child to school?

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Originally Posted by wsop

You know, this leads me to thinking just how a school should handle something like this? Do they address the whole student body at once? Should the teachers discuss it with their individual classes? Should they not say anything to the kids at all and leave it up to the parents.

This also got me to wondering about how the school handled the WTC situation. My oldest was in high school at the time, and while I wasn't surprised that the kids were told what happened, I was very surprised to find out that they rolled TVs into the classroom for the kids and teachers to watch everything unfold!

Since we live within an hour of Manhattan, naturally many of the kids had parents who worked in the WTC, who naturally became hysterical!

I still don't know how I feel about them doing that. I know I fully expected to have a discussion when my son came home, but he was too distraught after watching everything on TV.

I was a sophmore when that happened. Our classes all had TV's in them, but only one teacher had it on. The other teachers basically had class as usualy. Now, out here school started after both buildings had already fallen, so it was a completely different situation than out there. If a school were that close to Manhattan, I don't feel it should have been shown. However, people panic when the situation is actually happening. Everyone reacts differently.

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Originally Posted by Katiana

The bold is an urban legend. I live in CO and that is just not true.

I don't have kids in school any more. I do remember when they were in school, there were lots of bomb threats, etc. The school district said if they closed school every time one of those came up, school would never be open. I don't know if there even was a bomb threat at Columbine that day.

http://bvsd.org/calendar/Documents/2...Decorative.pdf

I live in colorado as well.
And in the two years I went to high school here and the 4 years my brother has attended middle school and two years high school here we have NEVER had school on 4/20. It was always like a "teacher inservice" day. They specifically had it off because of all that.

And I just checked my old schools calendar for this year and this time its a parent teacher day, school closed for students.

So SOME colorado schools do not have school on 4/20. The ones in my area don't have school that day.