Dale
April 18th, 2007, 02:53 PM
Today (April 18th) I went to school like any other day. For the past few days, since the VirginiaTech shootings and since the Columbine anniversary is a few days away, I've been getting this weird feeling that something bad is going to happen at my school. Well anyway, I walked into the doors of my junior high and went off to breakfast. After breakfast, I went back to the school building with a few of my friends. We went into classes like normal. Except today, all the football players and cheerleaders were away on a fieldtrip leaving half the school empty.
First and second period I have english and reading. Today, we had a reading test today on "Where The Red Fern Grows". I thought I was quite was prepared for it. So I took the test and made an A. Well anyway, for the rest of class we pretty much just talked amongst ourselves.
The bell rang to go to third period science. So we switched classes and started our science assignments. About halfway through cl**** the principal came on the loudspeaker and said "Attention students and faculty, at this time please report single file outside." So we obeyed and went outside, not knowing what was going on. We stood with our class for about 30 minutes and were getting curious and worried. Finally, the guidance counselor decided to go check out the school. She walked in with a walkie talkie and gave the other to a teacher. She disappeared through the backdoor of the school.
By that time, the rumors starting spreading. "Oh my god, there's a bomb!", "Oh my god, there's a killer in there!". The rumors got crazier with each passing moment. It was around 11:10 am by that time. We had been outside for nearly 35 minutes and still had no answers. So we continues waiting and waiting and finally, I decided to go sit with a few of my friends. We pondered about the possible outcome of the day. Was it going to be another Columbine? Was my school all of a sudden going to blow up? The questions continued to come in.
Finally, after 50 minutes of sitting outside, we saw the guidance counselor come out. She looked kind of pale in the face. She came out and all the teachers ran over to her and they gathered in a group. I knew something was wrong then. They continued talking for about 15 more minutes.
One of the substitutes came over to us and said, "Anyone with a cellphone, turn it off immediatly!" By then, I was sure it was a bomb threat. Everyone immediatly discreetly reached into their pockets and turned off their cellphones. I then started wondering if it had been one of our own students that had called and either pranked or threatened my school. Either way, it was still a serious situation.
After about an hour and a half in all of waiting outside with numerous questions, we were escorted back into the school. We were all cautious about walking in. We saw that there had been atleast twenty police officers and a whole fire department sitting infront of our school.
We continued our day, going to lunch. The lunch room was very crowded at first, but we started noticing immediatly after rearriving back into the school, that dozens of kids names were being called every minute. Suddenly, more and more kids were going home. It was a sight I had never seen before. After over an hour in the lunch room, there were only 27 7th graders left (Normally there's about 100) and only 24 eighth graders left (Normally 110). After lunch, we headed off to P.E.
P.E. was strange because most of the school was gone. P.E. was shortened to about 10 minutes and we went back inside. All the seventh and eighth grade sat in my sixth period class. It was kinda crammed. But the rest of the day went quickly. Soon, it was time to load the buses.
I got on the bus to see that only 1/3 of the normal amount of kids on my bus were actually left. The normal busride is about 45 minutes. But today's was only 20 minutes. I fell into a deep sleep immediatly on the bus, only to be awaken by one of my friends minutes later. I had finally arrived home! Took off my coat, threw my bag on the floor, and ran to call my aunt. I informed her of what happened. She seemed kinda shocked, but it had happened the day before with a school about 20 minutes out of town. They had a bomb threat, too. That's how my freaky day went! :mad: :no:
First and second period I have english and reading. Today, we had a reading test today on "Where The Red Fern Grows". I thought I was quite was prepared for it. So I took the test and made an A. Well anyway, for the rest of class we pretty much just talked amongst ourselves.
The bell rang to go to third period science. So we switched classes and started our science assignments. About halfway through cl**** the principal came on the loudspeaker and said "Attention students and faculty, at this time please report single file outside." So we obeyed and went outside, not knowing what was going on. We stood with our class for about 30 minutes and were getting curious and worried. Finally, the guidance counselor decided to go check out the school. She walked in with a walkie talkie and gave the other to a teacher. She disappeared through the backdoor of the school.
By that time, the rumors starting spreading. "Oh my god, there's a bomb!", "Oh my god, there's a killer in there!". The rumors got crazier with each passing moment. It was around 11:10 am by that time. We had been outside for nearly 35 minutes and still had no answers. So we continues waiting and waiting and finally, I decided to go sit with a few of my friends. We pondered about the possible outcome of the day. Was it going to be another Columbine? Was my school all of a sudden going to blow up? The questions continued to come in.
Finally, after 50 minutes of sitting outside, we saw the guidance counselor come out. She looked kind of pale in the face. She came out and all the teachers ran over to her and they gathered in a group. I knew something was wrong then. They continued talking for about 15 more minutes.
One of the substitutes came over to us and said, "Anyone with a cellphone, turn it off immediatly!" By then, I was sure it was a bomb threat. Everyone immediatly discreetly reached into their pockets and turned off their cellphones. I then started wondering if it had been one of our own students that had called and either pranked or threatened my school. Either way, it was still a serious situation.
After about an hour and a half in all of waiting outside with numerous questions, we were escorted back into the school. We were all cautious about walking in. We saw that there had been atleast twenty police officers and a whole fire department sitting infront of our school.
We continued our day, going to lunch. The lunch room was very crowded at first, but we started noticing immediatly after rearriving back into the school, that dozens of kids names were being called every minute. Suddenly, more and more kids were going home. It was a sight I had never seen before. After over an hour in the lunch room, there were only 27 7th graders left (Normally there's about 100) and only 24 eighth graders left (Normally 110). After lunch, we headed off to P.E.
P.E. was strange because most of the school was gone. P.E. was shortened to about 10 minutes and we went back inside. All the seventh and eighth grade sat in my sixth period class. It was kinda crammed. But the rest of the day went quickly. Soon, it was time to load the buses.
I got on the bus to see that only 1/3 of the normal amount of kids on my bus were actually left. The normal busride is about 45 minutes. But today's was only 20 minutes. I fell into a deep sleep immediatly on the bus, only to be awaken by one of my friends minutes later. I had finally arrived home! Took off my coat, threw my bag on the floor, and ran to call my aunt. I informed her of what happened. She seemed kinda shocked, but it had happened the day before with a school about 20 minutes out of town. They had a bomb threat, too. That's how my freaky day went! :mad: :no: