Seriously. A bunch of mouthbreathing fools. How the hell can we ever expect to grow and improve when so many of us are this dumb?

It's a lost cause, idiots rule.

Jaw dropping IDIOCY. I guess this explains how we ended up with GWB as president and how we have a Republican House of Representatives. S-T-U-P-I-D

heheheh

"Ok class, here's all the homework assignments you thought you got out of, 2 weeks ago..."

*THUD* (Sound of 20 pounds of papers hitting desk)

Kids are taught fear, myth, pseudo-science, the dangers of law suits.... but science? reason? facts?

For both the kids and the administrators.

I would like a second source before believing this.

Christmas holiday.

I weep for my home state, formerly known as the once great state of Michigan.

makes even us out of state sad and afraid. This read is about idiots but some of the other things going on there is not even in any way laughable

As someone who once went to a high school (in the early 80's) where bomb-threats (esp. during finals week) were fairly common for a few years, my guess is that what has likely happened is that some kid(s) (perhaps who wanted to get out of their finals) have heard that the 'end of the world' was, shall we say, a 'theme' in the CT shooter's life. One of them probably decided to call up and start rambling about the end of the world and talking about violence, so the schools have reacted by shutting down classes ... of course, wanting to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.

My guess is that this 'angle' will be likely be used by students wanting to get out of school (for whatever reason) for years and years after this episode.

Make sure they have additional homework when they come back. And cut some activities for the first week or two. Also, put it in the student handbook at the beginning of the book what will happen in those cases.

announced that the world will not end in 2012....said nothing about 2013, though.

And here I was rather looking forward to Mother Nature's and making some real CHANGE.

Science does include the study of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, land mass changes, solar flares, melting ice caps, and other even sinkholes! I love Physical Science 101.

What a stupid fucking species.

This is driving me crazy.

That's why we wished each other "Happy Holidays" before the break, since there would be at least two while we were away from school (not much recognition of other holidays in the early '60s).

that they'd want to shut down for a couple of weeks.

Seems like they could have kept quiet about Friday's date, started the 2-week break on Wednesday, covered their asses, and left the hysteria out of it all at the same time.

same thing.

... scrolling across the bottom of the tv screen this morning.

The first winter storm of the year is supposed to hit here in S.E. Michigan today. I figured that's why the schools closed. I guessed wrong.

(oh, darn, now the malls will be more crowded today)

...have a bunch of militia groups up there? Maybe some of them in the area of those schools have called in a threat or warning to the schools? Just a hunch. Maybe they're going to make spaghetti out of something besides flour and eggs? Remember what "Anonymous" said about the 21st of this month (Friday?)

seem to have "issues". It might be because the village that's raising them is full of fucking idiots.

rumor has it.

Wow. And these are educators! Scary.

Those are mostly rural areas, white and redneck.

The schools mentioned are in redneck, rightwing areas - mostly all white and they luvs their guns! Education? Not so much.

I, too, saw the scroll across the screen on the local news and couldn't for the life of me figure out why the schools were closed. Now I know. Unbelieveable.

I am going to guess it is that kinda area.........? I feel fine

... they would have just showed up without any advance warning.

Of course that does not detract from the sick nature of these individuals.

Its just awful

As someone said up-thread, the schools aren't closing because of any genuine fears of the apocalypse. They're acting out of an abundance of caution after shooting hoax in Grand Blanc and a social media rumor of a "student revolt" which has been growing. The rumor talks about kids taking weapons to school and "going out in a blaze of glory" since Friday is doomsday anyway. Given the tragedy in CT, school officials and police can't simply ignore the threats. Meanwhile, I'm sure there's a bunch of Twitter savvy kids congratulating themselves on getting classes canceled.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121220/SCHOOLS/212200406/

We didn't cancel classes in Connecticut and some schools did have threats to them, one of them in Bristol, CT was by a student. School officials in Connecticut didn't freak out.

I don't even know what this is all about. I haven't paid very much attention to it.

Or maybe that's just the cover story.