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How safe are the schools these days?
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How safe are the schools these days? |
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Tamma
since 2000-01-17
Posts 794In His Arms, Harpers Ferry, WV 
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How safe are the schools these days? Yesterday, I went to school, Thinking it’d be normal. I had almost made it thru 1st, But then the principle made an announcement… Someone called in and said there was a bomb We all lined up outside in the freezing cold While they searched the school Then they herded us into the gym While the principle told us what happened She said it was a young male They think it was a student There was nothing this time But I couldn’t help but think A few years ago They’d sent us home Cuz they found something I’m so grateful this is my last year But what will my children endure Each day it gets worse So I’m still left wondering How safe are the schools these days? www.angelfire.com/wv2/poetrycorner I'm just a girl looking at a guy asking him to love me |
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GirlsBestFriend Member
since 2000-12-27
Posts 71Planet Earth |
oh...yeah, but did this happen really? I think we still should have faith about the future and not to worry how safe it will be. keep on writin'  ~lotsa luv "Isn't it funny how to the world you are nothing? But then to one person..you're the world" |
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Jenn Cirrincione
since 2000-07-02
Posts 2107Fl |
This has definitly happened. At least in my school.... geez last year we had a week of bomb threats, all week long everyday. It was just ridiculous. Kids are capable of a lot, I am a senior too this year, and I hope my kids will be safe when they go to school. This sucks, but it's just too true. xoxo Jenn "A person can never get over a broken heart if they aren't willing to let go of all of the pieces."-- ?? |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
It happened to us once... but there are really mostly threats, and no real bombs. Indeed, how safe are the schools these days? But in reality, how safe is the world these days? School remains a part of the world. Eternal life without the darkness isn't life at all- it is a lobotomy. |
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Child of the Stars
since 2000-09-07
Posts 1658Ann Arbor, MI |
This happened last year at our school...2,000 kids had to sit on the football bleachers for..I think it was 4 hours. Holy sunburn. Well since the officials are getting all paranoid about everything, maybe the safety will increase...Great poem. ~Carly inspiration of my art search for light out of the dark all the pictures in my heart lie awake there in my fog... |
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Baby Gansta Junior Member
since 2000-12-09
Posts 24 |
A valid question, I had that happen in my school once or twice, but it was only threats made, thank God it wasn't the real thing...as Allen said the real question is how safe is the world today? |
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Bright_Eyes Junior Member
since 2000-12-22
Posts 29Plymouth, MN |
I'm sorry this had to happen. I've never thought about future problems for our kids....yikes! In my highschool we had a week off for dogs to come through and search for bombs. But we got to go home. I can't imagine what schools will be like in 10 years! |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
I'm glad you're OK Tamma, but what a scare that must be. I can't even imagine. It's a sad state of affairs indeed. Take care and best wishes, /Kit |
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jeremydraul Senior Member
since 2000-08-01
Posts 1118State of Despair |
good points made... im glad this stuff doesnt happen to us suburban kids  ~JDR "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde |
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Poet on Acid Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 325Florida, USA |
you bring up a very good point, and in the form of poetry as a bonus...the fact that schools are becoming more and more violent and dangerous should tell people something...oh well it's not my place to say whats right and whats wrong...yet...anyways I'm ranting great work and great points. Keep posting. >¶Øʆ< |
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Wicced_Witch Member
since 2000-02-06
Posts 110Clarksville, TN, USA |
Good point...Earlier this year some people at my school found a note where a few people were planning on shooting up the school. It even included a hitlist. The school officials didn't do anything except have a couple of cops come during the day and chain all the doors except one (the main door is only opened by a buzzer in the office. Some teachers who saw the note told their students that were on that list, and that is how alot of the other students found out. The kids came to school three days in a row, with guns...and even with that they kept getting in. It made me really concider moving. |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Sorry that happened, but dont lose faith in school.  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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Tamma
since 2000-01-17
Posts 794In His Arms, Harpers Ferry, WV |
GirlsBestFriend: Yup, It did happen...And each year, they try to beat the privious years record, by @least 1 threat. Jeremy: This doesn't only happen in the "city" schools, I live in the mountains of West Virginia, and if it can happen out in the country, where I live, it can happen anywhere.been thru, you'd think that learning about so much death would make the kids want to avoid it. Personal Note: 2 years ago, we had a "threat" in which, they sent us home, because they'd found something in a locker  www.angelfire.com/wv2/poetrycorner I'm just a girl looking at a guy asking him to love me |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
Our school recieves a lot of bomb threats, but the scariest thing by far was when someone shot into our school! Our school has more mixed cultures than the other schools in our area, and the people from the other schools don't accept us. We never thought it would get that serious, though! I just thank Jesus that nobody was hurt. Like Allan said, the world as a whole is getting more dangerous, so I think that it's to be expected that the school enviroment would imitate that. It's still scary, though. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! "Where there is great love there are always miracles" -Cather "Love heals everything, and love is all there is"- Zukav |
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Lakewalker Member Elite
since 2000-08-05
Posts 3289On the streets w/ people |
People should not have to feel afraid. I go to a really small school and I feel very safe, but maybe that's just me taking my safety for granted. Good job of expressing yourself in the poem! "Disagreements stimulate thought, thought stimulates action, and action stimulates life." --Lakewalker http://www.thehungersite.com |
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a_little_girl Member
since 2000-05-08
Posts 307San Alejandro, HI, USA |
At least it wasn't what happened at Littleton CO. You have to be thankful that a student didn't bring a gun to school and start shooting everyone. **No weapon will pierce my heart, no hand will be raised to harm me as long as I write.** ~a_little_girl |
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Melster Member
since 2000-12-09
Posts 442Brisbane, Qld, Australia |
I think our future is safe... I am experienced with Bomb threats also, and Im in good old Australia... they happen everywhere... the school I went to was almost private school worthy, but we were getting bomb threats every week for about 6-8 weeks at 10.35am, just after morning tea on a Friday, eventually we were told to stop them or our lunch would be cut short and then on the final one we had, we lost half our lunch break... we didn't have another one for 2 years then... but now I am not at school, so I am not sure what they do now... Good luck with the threats guys, I know how annoying they are... Melz!! You can't hurt me anymore than I have hurt myself already... |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
I think that law makers are really trying to solve this prooblem but first, they have to solve their own problem of agreeing with each other them demos and reps can't even get along for America's children I see your concern Tamma and you're right, this happens everywhere just remember Columbine High was a suburb and not city school you did a great job bringing this topic up p.s. when i was in 7th grade a good friend of mine pulled out a gun, cocked it, and pointed it at me. Though it was a joke, it was still a stupid thing for him to do. And no, i did't do #1 or #2 in my pants. I was just flat out scared. How he got the gun, i have no idea. And how he was able to bring it to school, i have no clue what so ever. This should change. I see no changes, wake up in the morning I ask myself, "Is life worth living or should I blast myself" TUPAC SHAKUR |
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Tamma
since 2000-01-17
Posts 794In His Arms, Harpers Ferry, WV |
Its really sad to know that some teachers and administrators just really don't care anymore. When I was in 10th grade, right after Columbine, they called in the school, saying one of MY best friends had a gun...Now, i knew this guy better than that, but they pulled him off a bus, full of Jr high school kids, searched his entire backpack, didn't find a thing, but they still sent him home...The only reason they called it in on him, what becayse he was "different", he wore all black, and even a trench coat, but stopped out of respect for the kids at Columbine, for the rest of our year. He was (and still is) a great friend...after all, he was the only guy to ever let me borrow his make up ~*~ Tamma Loves Justin ~*~ www.angelfire.com/wv2/poetrycorner I'm just a girl looking at a guy asking him to love me |
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DancinQueen
since 2000-07-29
Posts 1092Kokomo,IN,USA |
hey thats so weird~ happened at my school last umm Thursday i think , i forget... ¤Sometimes the hardest thing to get over, is something you never really had¤ |
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Poet on Acid Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 325Florida, USA |
Bump... |
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Allysa
since 1999-11-09
Posts 1952In an upside-down garden |
At my school, since I've been there, we had a bomb threat. The teachers would only talk amongst themselves, and I found out because my mom's a teacher. We had to sit outside all day long. Plus there have been people who have actually set my school on fire. And it doesn't always happen at school either. I've been threatened by numbers of people, had knives pulled on myself, and a friend of mine was murdered brutally in her home by her stepfather. I won't go into detail. Violence makes me sick, it makes me mad  and it makes me sad  . Why can't everyone just get along for a change???? Guys are like stars. There are millions of them, but only one will make your dreams come true. |
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