talk about website closes school

[bclark1]

concerned but misinformed

Aren't they all?

So I guess by the time I've got kids in high school, they're going to close the school on conspiracy to commit mass rape when guys are talking about girls in the locker room?

 

[RioShooter]

Last Friday, most of the students in my last period class were at a school dance. For the students who didtn't attend, I had a few activities. When they finished, I got out my gun magazines and that kept the students occupied for the remainder of the day. So far, school has not been cancelled.

 

[Old Fuff]

I got out my gun magazines and that kept the students occupied for the remainder of the day. So far, school has not been cancelled.

If the word gets out the more ah.... "progressive" members of the school's staff will have heart failure. Maybe you have a good plan.....

 

[hankdatank1362]

BOHICA

 

[GunnySkox]

One time at lunch when I was a junior in high school, I was flipping through a Cheaper Than Dirt catalog. A teacher I didn't know walked buy, stopped, turned around, looked at the back of the catalogue, gave me a weird look...

And then sat down and we talked guns for about fifteen minutes.

Of course, mere moments later, the Dean of Earth-Shattering Ineptitude came over and told me my catalog was not appropriate. <Idiot>.

~GnSx

 

[gunsmith]

I wish I knew

What website they were referring to

 

[Thain]

Probably something to do with Counterstrike and not actual guns at all.

 

[SoCalShooter]

but misinformed parent contacted a television news department about a possible gun threat.

WHY!!! JUST WHY? Contact the police or contact the school admin dont go getting the news involved they usually screw it up royally and make every blissninny from there to kalamazoo paranoid.Ugghh ignorance should be painful!!

 

[pax]

Maybe I am just old, but has anyone else here actually fired a gun in a school?

A couple of the public high schools in Lewis County, Washington (on the wet side of the mountains, no less) still have rifle teams. They don't shoot on campus though; they share a rifle range at a local gun club.

pax

 

[MP Sniper]

LMAO if they heard the kind of conversations between me and my friends they would S*** there pants.

(Me and my friends are quite knowledgeable about guns, me through books and hands on experience them cause there interested in the military)

 

[bumm]

>"Rather than calling us, rather than calling the
> police department, they just called Channel 13,"
> Poli said.

Others have pointed this out, but to me this is the most telling line in the article. If they were really concerned about the children, they would contact the school or the police. BUT ~ they contact the TV news, because they want attention and to raise a stink. These self-rightious, whistle-blowing jerks deserve "attention" of the worst kind.
Marty

 

[modifiedbrowning]

This happened in MAINE ???? *** !

My thoughts exactly. I grew up in Topsham across the river from Brunswick.
I thought Maine was still a sane place, but now I fear for its future.

 

[Dbl0Kevin]

Geez, I remember back when I was in high school I used to have gun magazines and catalogues with me just about all the time. I used to even have gun discussions with some of the teachers and would sometimes even bring in oddball rounds and shell casings to show my teacher. My friends and I would also bring in our targets from the range to compare. Hell I even wore my High Power Rifle team jacket with my marksmanship chevrons on the sleeve to school. The school never closed and no teacher ever said anything to me. I was even named student of the month and graduated 4th in my class. And this was in NEW JERSEY!! What the hell is going on these days?!

 

[Blue4]

As someone said-times have changed. When I was in grade school our principal had a gun rack in his office so we could leave our guns there and hunt on the way home. What has happened to us?

 

[Henry Bowman]

grew into a much larger incident after a concerned but misinformed parent contacted a television news department

"Concerned but misinformed" is not an excuse. A synonym is "misguided."

 

[gyp_c2]

hmmm...

...used to be, you yelled FIRE and caused a panic, you'd get at least a ticket...

Now...whisper GUN and they stop the world...apologize for the ass that started it, and make sure it makes national headlines...

 

[balletto]

re: archery in gym class

...the one sport I seemed to be somewhat good at back then, for reason's I have yet to decipher.

As archery week wore on, us wanna-be robin hoods amused ourselves with figuring out who could hit the target from farthest away, something like 100 paces farther than that formal distance.

Good times, circa 1992, if I remember correctly.

 

[gezzer]

Don't blame ME. From Portland south is considered MA north, same as in NH from Manchester south exept for those west of Milford.

 

[griz]

Many of you folks seem happy to put the blame on the parent/s instead of the school. I am not so forgiving. The school apparently had the ability to disseminate the info that the school was closed in a timely fashion, why not use the same means to tell the community that there is no threat and school will go on as usual?

This line got to me:

Teachers at the high school spent Thursday reviewing communication protocols and safety procedures

It brings to mind the image of Chicken Little knowing the sky isn't falling, but reviewing the sky falling protocols to be on the safe side.

 

[ryan in maine]

thank you, Gezzer. southern Maine is not Maine. the stupidity that is this story would not happen anywhere else in Maine.

kids up here still park their vehicles on school property with rifles in the back window of their trucks.

yes, I'm still embarrassed.

 

[Wes Janson]

Two years ago, I used to walk to an off-campus gym along with the rest of the PE class. After working out, I'd go back to the on-site pistol range, and hang out with whoever was working there. I'd chat for a while, then go back to school with the rest of the class.

It should be said that my school was of a particularly enlightened nature, run by intelligent and dedicated individuals, outside the regular public school system.