My kids school is in lockdown and I'm freaking out a little.

My husband's a firefighter and just called the station but they are out on a call, most likely there - as are 3 different town police departments.

It's always frightening when a school goes to lockdown and parents don't know what's going on. :hug:

not happy with how the school handled this. They have not learned from past experience.

I'm glad there wasn't a problem at the school.

at the High School because some kid made a Columbine-type threat (it turned out he used up all his sick days and was trying to get another day off).

Anyways - parents freaked out because the kids didn't know why they were being locked down and started calling out on their cell phones.

Parents knew about the lockdown before the principal even knew because he was at an off-site meeting.

So the school bought this robo-call system for $25,000 to make sure parents were alert to events at the HS. They've used it twice - once for a test and the 2nd time to let people know about some school meeting that was going on.

They did NOT use it this morning. They are going to hear from me.

Isn't this what that alert system is for? Why not use it? This kind of stuff makes me really mad. And I'm not even a parent! Grrr!

want the kids to find out they were going to do this.

I wonder what percentage of parents would warn their kids not to bring their drugs to school?

It's insane.

:eyes: Let's not alert the authorities who might need to know for safety reasons because some kid might find out and not bring his drugs to school and then we won't be able to catch him/her!

Somehow I think it's very important to call parents when there's a lock-down. Everyone worries until they know what the problem is/was.

if they aren't going to use it in a timely manner.

When I called the school the secretary tried to tell me it was broken until I told her I had previously received two automated calls (this is a new system implemented this school year).

Then 2 hours later I got the call, and a follow up call from the principal.

Now I don't trust the school.

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paid for by your taxes ...

I dont know what sucks more today. Being a parent or being a kid.

It makes me sick that we now treat our children like monsters.

this drug dog bullshit.

How infuriating.

No wonder why that survey last year showed the majority of kids thought there was a limit to 1st Amendment rights, they're brought up in a society that imprisons them in a school and looks at them as guilty until proven innocent. Yikes.