OK easy child is home, now. She is freaked, the teachers were freaked....not only was there the bomb threat, and not only was the electric off....but- the emergency generators also did not come on....so, everyone was LOCKED inside the GYM together-----EVERYONE, in total darkness.....all scared-freaked out......
Whether or not it is copycat.....that is LITTLE comfort.........sure, lots of things are copycat-----but hey, come on, we just had NIU recently...we are within area of NIU.... and whether or not it is copycat does not necessarily mean a copycat won't follow thru.
No explanation so far has been given to the kids or parents about WHY the electric AND generators went off today.....and it is my guess that the kids who do go to school tomorrow might be a tad anxious anyway..so- how much learning will occur?
Sure, maybe it is a copycat.....but maybe that copycat is gonna follow thru....anyway, it is easy to say it is "just a hoax" or whatever if it is not your child who is there in the midddle of it all.....Let it be a hoax, but, meanwhile, why take a chance with haveing the school be full of kids? and why scare the kids, or let them be so scared/freaked? WHether the elec being off was unrelated or not- it is just so coincidental.....
worse...turns out a kid my easy child AND her boyfriend KNOW......he DID assemble a bomb a couple years ago-and placed it with the school generator.....what we do not understand is------while it was proven to BE a bomb, and the kid got expelled----he was NOT arrested.
JUst TOO scary. TOO weird. TOO much coincidence.
Maybe tomorrow before I go to county offices (I have an appointment to be fitted for my gas mask--becuz since last fall I have been a volunteer for our county disaster services) me and easy child will go over to community college and register her for her darned class to make up for the deficit at the hig school due to her guidance counselors incompetance and school changeing the credits given for certain classes......<sigh>
I am NOT sending her to her high school tomorrow.......I'm NOT going thru similar tomorrow. SUre my nephew I raised did 3 tours with Marines in Iraq..but hey- he was trained first, he signed up to go be in a war zone......thats a little bit different than sending my child off to mandatory k-12 school.
I am SO sick of our district. I am SO glad we are almost done with them.