Today at Julia's school a girl in her class had made threats online saying if anyone wore a jersey against her team (this bit is murky exactly what she said) that she'd kill them. She said it online and allegedly referenced the school. Sooooo the local sheriff cuffed and stuffed her straight out of her classroom.
there is a ton of shit you can't say that you could have said five years ago. i find it annoying sometimes but i also get it, and i promise you if it had been MY kids school that got shot up i'd be a a fucking zealot on the subject.
my high school banned playing cards because some kids were playing poker and betting on it. and we were all, throw our arms up this is fascism rah rah rah
we used to do the Nickel Lottery. Lunch was 95 centers so we would all throw the nickel into the pot and see who one and it was a whole hullabaloo. those were simpler times.
I was out of my high school when Columbine happened, but my younger sibling was still there and they banned trench coats and spaghetti strap tops because "you know what the killers at Columbine wore" and all the kids were like "spaghetti strap tops?" - this is the same school where kids had shot guns in the back of their pickup trucks
we didn't have that. we didn't even have backpacks, they started backpacks after i graduated because so many kids kept getting run over by busses (this is true we lost about 1 kid a year to a bus)
For some reason, my school was very scared of bomb threats. Why? No clue. There never had been one that any of us knew about. But it was just known that you didn't mention blowing anything up.
So the bathroom sex thing is absolutely real as my Catholic high school had to lock a bathroom in the new wing because of a few of my (?) classmates got caught. Also two of my classmates had sec in the elevator which cut off access for most reasons.
Also my best friend was bonking her female lacrosse coach. Of course me being gay and being absolutely not attracted to anyone was the chaste celibate one and pretty much was a confirmed bachelor by senior year
when I was in HS in the 70s we had bomb threats daily for few months. Then a kid put a pipe bomb in his locker and blew it up. Good times. This stuff happened then. Big difference? Guns my friends. People didn't have guns the way they do now.
No place is safe. Not the grocery, schools, movies, concerts, synagogue, churches, bowling alleys. No place is safe
Also kids had sex in the bathrooms, behind the bleachers, in the courtyard, behind the stage, in the parking lot. I mean teenagers having sex anywhere they can isn't actually all that surprising, is it?
we dont have 'middle school' down here. It is kindergarten to 6th grade, then highschool, year 7 - 12 when I was a teen you could finish at 10 and go into a trade etc. This is all very scary to read the very idea of sex that those ages is mind blowing. Funny the first thing I thought of was Degrassi, then everything else. All the shows that are portraying
kids/teens as having very real very adult situations, but played by adults...kids think they are meant to have sex, have the love of their lives etc at the ages shown in shows. Here it is 18 once you are an adult and doing adult stuff, so the other naughty stuff tends to happen just around that, sort of a 15.5 onwards thing. I don't want to know its younger
I think it was a good thing the way they did it. Our old school system would send an email that said someone did a thing and they are dealing with it. Kids didn’t see consequences like this in a public way- and who even knows what they did
Yes, I personally think this was the best way to deal with this. Emails for something like this are a weak way to deal with that kind of threat and sends the wrong message especially to the parents. How this was handled sends a clear message that behaviour like this has serious consequences
Did you know her school gets threats every year? I don't even think this one was real but many are. The knife that boy pulled last week was an inch wide with an eight inch blade?!!! I'm scared to death.
I don't know how any parent isn't terrified every time they send their child out the door to school. Well, in the US, anyway. I would have constant anxiety.
No place is safe. Not the grocery, schools, movies, concerts, synagogue, churches, bowling alleys. No place is safe