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Re: Threats
Last year, a student wrote "Im gunna blow up da skool" on the stall of a bathroom in our middle school. The administration, upon seeing this, evacuated the school due to the bomb threat. Was this serious? No one really knows. But they did what they were supposed to do according to the procedure.
Throughout the next week or so, there were many "copycat" threats made in our high school. However, in these instances, the administration did nothing, just writing it off as a prank. Sure, they tried to find the students that did it; I even recall our principal making an announcement-"The bomb threat that was scheduled for today is cancelled. If anyone has any information on the bomb threat that didn't happen, please turn over that information to administration." He decided to make light of the situation based on the previous events of the week. But what if one of these "pranks" had been real?
As Andrew pointed out, 99% of the time, it is usually a joke, but there is still that 1% that they take into account, especially with the recent string of school shootings.
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