Pull my kids out or not?

[Sancheezy]

So here is the dilemma, There was a bomb threat called in this morning that was non specific and generic about a school in the county.

The schools are in lockdown, and have been swept for odd packages. Should i panic like everyone else and pull the kids or should i let them get their class work in?

[Sully]

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I'd pull them out, but that's just me. Better to be safe, than sorry.

[MassNole]

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If you have a bad feeling then pull your kids out. Maybe you are overreacting, but we have billions of years of instinct inside of us and it is always best to follow it.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Pull my kids out or not?

So here is the dilemma, There was a bomb threat called in this morning that was non specific and generic about a school in the county.

The schools are in lockdown, and have been swept for odd packages. Should i panic like everyone else and pull the kids or should i let them get their class work in?

Pull them out bro..............I wouldn't hesitate one moment these days.

[Sancheezy]

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I know what you mean, i dont want to over react, so im listening to the reports over the radio. So far it seems like the schools are safe.

What makes me mad is that the local paper doesnt even have anything on it posted on the website. I had to find out from my dad who called and told me.

[mjb2124]

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Same thing happened to a school near me. The kids were given the option to attend today and tomorrow. If they chose not to go to school, they were granted an acceptable absence.

I'm sure the schools are safe, but I'd pull them out regardless. Better safe than sorry.

This is why I hate all the publicity this stuff gets. Copycat acts are bound to follow. Then you have the kids who think "Hey, we can get a day off if I leave a bomb threat".

[chippered]

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Pull em. Like the others have said, better safe than sorry. Hope everything turns out alright.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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I have no kids, but I told my wife if there's any crap like that at the school she teaches at, for her to leave regardless of whether or not it's okay with her principal. I don't want to take any chances.

[chippered]

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I have no kids, but I told my wife if there's any crap like that at the school she teaches at, for her to leave regardless of whether or not it's okay with her principal. I don't want to take any chances.

I dont blame you. It seems anything is possible anymore, unfortunetly.

[Jimplication]

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Chances are it's a hoax, but is it really worth risking? Without life, nothing else is possible.

[nc0ffey]

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Take them home and let them have a day off...otherwise they'll hate you for it....well maybe not hate, but they won't forget the time they got left at school while everyone else got to go home.

In middle school my mom drove me, my sis, and my neighbor to school only to get turned around and sent home because of a bomb threat...we loved it...until about 9:00 my neighbors mom found out they were moving the classes to the high school for the day and taking kids there...so she called my mom and my mom said that we had to go, so my neighbors mom came and picked us up and took us to the high school...i remember sitting in a classroom, watching a movie and looking out the window seeing some of my friends that lived across the street from the school that had walked over and were playing tennis...i was upset.

[bkfount]

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I went through bomb threats at a middle school before, since it was a phase some people were in apparently. We were calmly moved to another school while the cops searched for the threat. The kids aren't in any danger, even when these are called in, let the people in charge handle the situation.

Causing panic "just to be on the safe side" is irresponsible. Running to take kids home in situations like these will only make other kids think it's cool and call more threats in.

[Jimplication]

Re: Pull my kids out or not?

I went through bomb threats at a middle school before, since it was a phase some people were in apparently. We were calmly moved to another school while the cops searched for the threat. The kids aren't in any danger, even when these are called in, let the people in charge handle the situation.

Causing panic "just to be on the safe side" is irresponsible. Running to take kids home in situations like these will only make other kids think it's cool and call more threats in.

To me, it's anything but irresponsible. If my child were potentially in danger, it makes perfect sense to do what I can to alleviate that danger or threat to my child.

As for letting those in charge handle the situation. That's fine, but I'd rather put the lives of those close to me in my control instead of some outside organization whenever possible. Especially when it's something that's so easily done, and the results are guaranteed to be better. Why keep a kid at school where there may or may not be a bomb, when you can instead take them home, where there definitely isn't one?

[rubisco43]

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Ultimately, I think parents tend to overreact (and I'm not saying that it's a bad thing), and non-parents tend to be too blase about it. If I had a kid, and there was a danger near him/her, I'd immediately remove him from the danger.

[Cebby]

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My senior year of high school we had bomb threats every other day for about a month. Unfortunately, that month was December. It got to the point where if we saw an AP talking on their walkie-talkies, we'd go to the locker room and grab our cold weather gear from football.