It’s over. The police found two guns, but no threats were ever made. No one got hurt. And supposedly everything is “back to normal” after a 90-minute lockdown. Though I don’t know how anyone can expect the rest of the day to be “normal” after something like this.
Apparently, everyone at school thought this was just a drill (in light of the shootings at Virginia Tech) to start with…there was supposed to be a drill of some sort today, but nobody knew when it was going to be. After about half an hour, it was clear it WASN’T a drill.
Preteen should have some interesting stories to tell after school…
Whew!
This reminds me of the lockdown my Elementary school had during the Rodney King riots back in the 90’s. That was scary! We had a couple bomb threats but they didn’t find anything. Still having police and others swarm our K-3 school was very scary.
Oh, I’ll bet! We had one bomb threat when I was in high school…that’s the closest I’ve ever come to anything like this. And even then, nobody really believed there was a bomb in our school. I remember arriving at school that day and being told we couldn’t go in because of the bomb threat. So a group of us went out for donuts and came back. I don’t know what it’s like to truly feel FEAR in school. Not like today’s kids. But I sure know what it’s like to feel fear as a parent!
You must be so relieved!
I AM relieved…but I’m not relaxed. Not yet. I can’t stop thinking about what COULD have happened.
*whew*
Yeah. Preteen was a little shaken up after school, but it’s over. And it could have been so much worse.
*breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn’t worse*
Hang in there, Dori!
Me too. It sounds like there were incidents like this all over the country yesterday.