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Dear parents: Please tell your kids not to issue bomb threats
And while you're at it, let them know it's school, not skool. (NorthJersey.com)
October 2, 2007 | Permalink
Comments
Heh heh heh. Kids are good at figuring out how to push the buttons of adults, aren't they?
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Oct 2, 2007 7:53:25 AM
maybe they should just spell it bomm and not bomb....
Posted by: cherie | Oct 2, 2007 7:54:38 AM
Maybe they were big fans of BC.
Posted by: the_overdog | Oct 2, 2007 8:12:55 AM
Weird, my old high school and all the surrounding areas are where all these stupid bomb threats are going on. In my day they'd just pull the fire alarm.
Posted by: elchampino | Oct 2, 2007 8:16:54 AM
School being pronounced skool by people has always been "like a fingernail on the black board" for me.
Posted by: | Oct 2, 2007 8:30:13 AM
I love teens! They're so creative. Makes me wish I had a dozen of them, all at once.
When I was in high school, I pushed buttons as well, like demanding the right to select books for reports that had been banned by the board, questioning the use of romance novels for book reports (yes, our school library had more romance novels than 'required' classics--I had to go to the public library to check out The Iliad), the ban on women in shop class/men in home economics, and the ban on shorts and sleeveless shirts.
Phoning in bomb threats? That just smacks of no imagination. Idiots.
Posted by: Soo | Oct 2, 2007 8:50:17 AM
Soo -- the imaginative part comes in _how_ you harrass the administration.
For instance, our school system participated in the 'National Red Ribbon Week', where you're supposed to wear a red riboon to show you were drug free. I distributed a color list for those people who weren't drug free, and wore a ribbon to signify 'caffeine or other stimulants'. (other people wore in ribbons for being on birth control, pain killers, etc. I don't think I saw anyone wearing the colors designated for barbiturates, opiates, hallucinogens or cocaine, though.)
Posted by: Joe | Oct 2, 2007 9:28:32 AM
Alright Joe! I work in a government "drug free workplace" and they hand out those ribbons at the guard post every year. I refuse to wear one as I need several cups of coffee in the morning to get started. Not to mention that I am on tranquilizers and high blood pressure and cholesterol medications.
I was really offended by the government's policies when I bought a Sobe in the snack bar one day. I was so jacked up that I was having heart palipations and couldn't concentrate on anything. Here they dictate what substances a person can use on there free time, but sell this kind of stuff in the cafeteria and still hypocritically claim they are "drug free."
Posted by: T Grum | Oct 2, 2007 9:47:10 AM
Oops! "their" not "there." And I proofread before I post too.
Posted by: T Grum | Oct 2, 2007 9:48:33 AM
Gee T Grum, perhaps the "drug free" policies have to do with ILLEGAL DRUGS..ya think?
Getting this back on the subject, the ONLY way to get idiotic teens to do the right thing is peer pressure....as in...."oh, bomb threat? Okay.....everyone out to the tennis courts for 4 hours while we search the school and NO talking/texting.....then everyone gets to stay at school on the regular schedule until the 4 hours is made up, the final bell will ring at 6:30 tonight, then you can leave"......doing stupid things to be "cool" would suddenly not be so popular with your classmates.
Posted by: jimmyjohn | Oct 2, 2007 10:03:05 AM
These offenders should be placed in a maximum security juvenile facility and forced to do manual labor each day...draining mosquito-infested ditches, clearing poison ivy from public spaces and other similar jobs. They obviously don't value an education. And any adult who thinks this is a harmless prank should be sentenced to the same, except in an adult facility.
Posted by: Dick Tater | Oct 2, 2007 11:12:40 AM
T. Grum
Unlike all the other posters to this site, I am not a licensed physician; but are you sure you should be combining coffee, HBP meds and tranquilizers not to mention other stimulant beverages (watch out for that Red Bull, it is nasty stuff.)
Posted by: NellAgain | Oct 2, 2007 11:30:37 AM
DT;
That's a really good idea, but I was leaning more towards stocks. Have them locked in stocks in front of the school's main entrance, and have water ballons and raw eggs, $1 a pop, to throw at them. Punishes the kid, deters copycats, and raises money for the skool! I's a win-win-win situation!!!
Posted by: Random White Guy | Oct 2, 2007 11:52:28 AM
The teachers are two busy having sex with the students to worry about some silly spelling words. Come on, get with the program. Hugging is a much bigger issue than those stupid spelling/english words. After all, who needs to know how to spell anyway.
Posted by: Sami-Sosa | Oct 2, 2007 11:55:11 AM
When I went to school in NJ back in the 80's, we had this span of two years at my middleschool where we had somewhere around 30-40 bombscares a year...
And you know who was doing it?
The parents of the black and puerto rican students...their parents where actually calling in the bomb threats so they could get their kids out of school early.
And it wasn't just one or two....they nailed like 7 or 8 different parents for it.
But this is just one of the many reasons why I refuse to let my kids go to public school with those animals, and I pay for private school, let alone live far enough out that my children don't have to be exposed to this type of behavior on a daily basis.
Posted by: ThatGuy | Oct 2, 2007 1:48:07 PM
LOL
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