Day 2: Threat of School Shooting in Progress
Honey, text as often as possible. Love, Mom
No student should stare down the barrel of an assault rifle at school.
Did you miss the threat of school shooting yesterday?
While the planned threat did not happen at our school, it did happen in Colorado.
For the rest of this week, we have an assurance of police presence beyond what we can see. And, we know there is more that we can’t see.
Yesterday
Yesterday, my oldest got to her first-period class and discovered no exit strategy to leave her classroom. She freaked out and sent me a text to pick her up, after being confident in her exit strategy from each class.
She had been at school less than 20 minutes before receiving a picture of a Snapchat conversation that a student planned to shoot up the school.
So many students were absent that the faculty shuffled sparsely populated classes together. My daughter could not immediately be located because she wasn’t in her normal classroom. I sent her a text to determine what room she was in. Her text response allowed a call for her to go home.
