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My grandson's Homecoming today canceled due to rumor of possible shooting....

San Antonio Gal — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:40:38 GMT

This is awful. My 13 year old grandson's homecoming dance was tonight and he was one of the escorts in the court. His mom (my daughter) bought him a brand new outfit to wear tonight.

Someone called in to Crimestoppers about a possible shooting to occur. The school had no choice, but to cancel.

I feel terrible for all the kids that have been looking forward to this event. It really breaks my heart for them. Can you imagine all the little girls that went out and got dresses, etc?

What's wrong with people???????

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Shelbelle — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:44:35 GMT

Hopefully once this gets straightened out the dance can be rescheduled, it is heartbreaking for these kids and makes them afraid to go to school.

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Shelbelle — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:48:07 GMT

I have grand kids and have lots of coworkers with young kids, I always tell them I could never raise young kids today, would have no clue as to what to say to them in this crazy world.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:53:43 GMT

@San Antonio Gal. Schools all over the country have been plagued with threats the past week or two, including in my area, even causing cancelation of classes in some places.

A concerted effort needs to be made to identify and prosecute the originator of these threats to put an end to them. It's very possible they are kids who think it's funny. They can rarely resist bragging about such actions so shouldn't be too hard to identify.

They put parents into an absolute panic. We had hysteria on the NextDoor app early this past week. Of course nothing happened but a lot of school admin and police time was wasted.

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threecees — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:12:33 GMT

A school near us this week had two 14 year olds, one a boy and the other

a girl wanting to blow up their school. Never ends.

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mspatmac — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:10:48 GMT

Kids are sitting in jail because they didn't want to go to school Friday so called in a bomb threat. another kid was reported on the anonymous tip line and is also in jail. this happened a couple towns over and the police have made it very clear what will happen and then follow through. the police are not fooling around.

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goldensrbest — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:43:58 GMT

And kids that do this think it is funny to do,and i am sure their friends know they did this.

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Puzzle Piece — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:11:37 GMT

Hopefully there wasn't anything to the threat. Better safe than sorry.

Back in the 70's when I was an adolescent/teen, the bomb threats would come in on the days of finals or mid-terms. They were done to get an evacuation of the classes and then a test or two couldn't be taken. Never made the news.

There were also a few school shootings but the targets were missed. Never made the news. That sort of thing happened beck then but it is now happening on a larger scale.

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DSD2 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:13:40 GMT

I'm so sorry that your grandson and the other children are disappointed. Hopefully, it can be rescheduled.

Perhaps that phone call averted a catastrope. Thank heavens they will all be safe tonight. It is always better to be safe than sorry.

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qvcfreak — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:14:24 GMT

So sad, especially for the kids that worked so hard.

It's horrible that you can't be at peace when your child/grandchildren are at school or a school function for fear that a shooting can occur.

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Wsmom — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:20:16 GMT

@Puzzle Piece wrote:
Hopefully there wasn't anything to the threat. Better safe than sorry.
Back in the 70's when I was an adolescent/teen, the bomb threats would come in on the days of finals or mid-terms. They were done to get an evacuation of the classes and then a test or two couldn't be taken. Never made the news.
There were also a few school shootings but the targets were missed. Never made the news. That sort of thing happened beck then but it is now happening on a larger scale.

@Puzzle Piece , yes! As we were watching the evening news with all the local schools that had gotten threats I was telling DD this very thing. We loved a bomb threat in the '70s because we got out of class and it was never a concern that anything was really going to happen. These poor kids today ... it is heartbreaking the fear they have to live through.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:00:43 GMT

It's happening all around our region too. One, somewhat locally, a few weeks ago, the little jerk turned out to be the son of a middle school teacher. Most of these incidents are kids being stupid, but all threats need to be taken seriously regardless.

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geezerette — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:44:43 GMT

We had a 12 year old, a 13 year old, and a 14 year old all arrested this past week for making threats against their schools. Even my very small town closed a high school because of a threat.

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Puggywuggy — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:02:48 GMT

We had the rumors of possible sightings of someone with a gun outside various schools in our region as well this week. There was also an actual stabbing on campus at a local high school on Monday. What is happening to our society?!!

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GingerHead — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:08:14 GMT

So sad @San Antonio Gal ! I guess better safe than sorry but it's not fair. Things are just crazy scary nowadays...

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brandiwine — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:09:53 GMT

We live in very sad times. I must really be out of touch, I thought Homecoming was for kids in High School. My granddaughter is 12 and no homecoming for her Middle school.

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twinsister — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:38:53 GMT

@San Antonio Gal - So disappointing and sad for your grandson and his classmates, plus all kids around the country that have to deal with these occurences as their new normal.

Of course, it's better to be safe than sorry, but what a way to live.

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chrystaltree — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:43:25 GMT

It's sad, it's the times we live in. Hopefully it will be rescheduled. I never heard of homecoming for middle school kids.

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AuntG — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:45:58 GMT

It's sickening. It was phoned in bomb threats when I went to school.

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:57:55 GMT

It's awful and a shame. Honestly when did middle schools start having homecoming? I always thought this was for high school and college.