The only false alarms I ever experienced in relation to school were bomb threats. They were taken seriously and the student response was basically the same as a fire drill with a greater distance of a perimeter around the school, but, there were never threats of mass shooting.
This is different. With the prevalence of easy access to guns, school officials are left with difficult decisions. Those decisions include canceling a day of classes while police follow the trail of a potential murderer. It is expensive and creates an aire of uncertainty for the police, school administrators, teachers and students. Basically, it effects learning.
Oh, there never was any bomb either.
March 7, 2018
By Christal Hayes
Breathless and whispering (click here) through the phone, a 13-year-old student called for help from her Ohio high school.
"Help," she said in between whimpers. "He's got a gun. He's got the gun in my mouth."
Anxiety was already running high: It had been only a week after the deadly shooting in Parkland, Fla. Police dispatchers then got three other calls from Withrow University High School in Cincinnati.
But it was all a hoax....
...The rise in threats after a high-profile mass killing is nothing new. But the incidents are hard to quantify because they are not tracked nationally by any government agency.
A review by USA TODAY of published accounts, however, paints a clear picture of a growing problem that is no joke.
More than 130 threats were reported and analyzed by the USA TODAY NETWORK in the nine-day span after the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland left 17 dead....
