sisters school had bomb threat

[buy guns]

first of all i would like to say that of course it was a prank so no need to worry.


for some reason the school herded all of the kids to the outdoor bleachers on the football field which is right next to the school building. i am sure you guys will see the problem with this.

if someone actually wanted to bomb a school all they would have to do is inconspicuously rig the bleachers with their explosives of choice. then call in the threat, let the school move the kids, and boom.

and then even if the building was blown up the kids would still have been close enough to get hit with debris.


so why is this in strategies and tactics? because i want to know what you guys would do if you were the principle of a school that recieved a bomb threat.

 

[Glacius_the_Invincible]

I think it might depend on the age of the kids, but generally speaking I think it'd be best to corral them in an open field a far away from the building as possible. Most schools have a soccer field or football field or something similar that would be far enough away from the building to be relatively safe. Or at least the schools I attended did. Then I'd line the kids up in alphabetical order by class and have the parents come pick them up and sign them out.

I figure with the open field you could see a threat and have enough teachers amongst the kids to see anyone playing with any suspicious devices or anything like that. That's really the best solution I can think of.

But there's always the problem like the kids who pulled the fire alarm then started shooting into the crowd of students standing outside. (I can't remember where it was but I remember it on the news some years back.) Maybe the open field isn't the best idea....? Just my thoughts.

Could also have the students loaded on the busses and taken to another school across town... I went to a middle school right next to a train yard and we had drills for that in case of a hazardous material spill at the train yard.

 

[Thrash1982]

My freshman year in high school we probably had one bomb threat a week. Sometimes more. The school treated it like a fire drill in that we were all hearded outside surrounding the building. with 2,700 people in the school, (more now) there wasn't a single location that would hold us all. It eventually got bad enough that people didn't really take it seriously.

 

[buy guns]

it turns out some 15 year old used the schools pay phone to make the call. kids these days

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

We used to get bomb threats at my old college, always during the last week of the semester. They were regular and predictable, like seasons of the year, and as reliable as te phases of the moon. You could time the harvest by our bomb threats. Who needs stonehenge? Anyway, at our school, when you didn't have that term paper done, or couldn't give that big end-of-semester presentation ontime, you phoned in a bomb threat. The campus "cops" would shut down the desired building, and all classes in that building would be cancelled for the day. Presto! Instant extension!

Mebbe it's just coincidence, but isn't it presently the last week or so of the high school semester?