Bomb threats are not uncommon.
i first experienced drills and actual threat evacuations, as a student in the 60’s, as a university employee in early 70’s, decades later, schools continue to receive threats. Not in the U.S. alone.
”School Bomb Threats and School Security”
School bomb threats disrupt schools and create significant anxiety in a school-community, especially if they are reoccurring over a shorter period of time.
School administrators, safety officials, crisis teams and staff should be trained and schools should have guidelines for handling bomb threats and suspicious devices on campus.
See our 2015 national study of more than 800 violent school bomb threat and shooting threats.
https://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/s ... and-bombs/
Historical and Recent School Bomb Threat Incidents
A number of high-profile incidents involving bombs and bomb threats took place prior to the 1999 Columbine High School attack showed a trend we identified and trained schools to prepare for at that time:
A January, 1999, explosion in a high school locker in Kansas City sent 11 students to the hospital.
An irate parent took the deputy superintendent and an associate superintendent of a California education office hostage in late November of 1998. The standoff resulted in police killing the parent, who had a gun and seven bomb devices as a part of his siege.
Ten bombs, fireworks strapped to aerosol cans, forced the closure of a California elementary school.
One Maryland school district experienced more than 150 bomb threats and 55 associated arrests in one school year.
Up to a pound of ammonium nitrate was brought to school by a Nevada middle-school student.
Eight boys confessed to making three homemade bombs, two of which were placed at a Minnesota elementary school.
The attack at Columbine High School triggered bomb threats and attention to the need for school and police officials to assess threats versus automatically evacuating as a best practice.
Post-Columbine
Immediately following Columbine, schools across the nation experienced a spike in bomb threats and related incidents.
While the spike in these type of incidents leveled off in the months and years following Columbine, there are still a number of incidents each school year involving bomb threats, suspicious devices, plans to use bombs in school violence plots, and the actual use of explosives. School buses have also been the target of terrorist bombings in the Middle East, so it would be wise for school officials to include school bus and transportation facilities in their bomb threat and suspicious device planning and training. .. ..
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Let’s face it.
“When biden speaks,” msm listens, and repeats. and repeats.
to the omission of balanced facts.
