****ing Texas

[The Mad Monk]

I read that for one to make a bomb, there is a simple acronym to remember : PIES
this child had all but one ingredient. He had the Power, Initiator, and the Switch, all that he was missing to make a Explosive device was the explosive.

...and all he was missing to make it a chemical weapon was the Sarin.

...and all he was missing to make it a biological weapon was the Anthrax.

...and all he was missing to make it a nuclear weapon was the Uranium.

...and all he was missing to make it a singularity weapon was the BLACK HOLE.

etc, etc.

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

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.

SOURCE: http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends...ats-and-bombs/

Unfortunately, many schools historically handled bomb threats and suspicious devices rather poorly. School staff ranging from custodians to principals, and even some security and former police officers, have reportedly picked up suspected devices and moved them around school property, delayed calling police, and taken other dangerous steps which could have possibly been prevented through adequate training, crisis planning, and related measures.
One major issue facing most school districts is whether to evacuate schools on bomb threats. Many school bomb threats have been made by students seeking to disrupt the school day and to get out of school. Still, all threats must be treated seriously and thoroughly investigated and managed.
The best practice, supported by federal law enforcement explosives experts, is for schools and police to assess threats rather than automatically evacuating schools. Many schools across the nation do not automatically evacuate their schools upon receiving a bomb threat. Decisions and protocols on these issues should be determined by school officials and their public safety (police, fire, etc.) partners as a part of their emergency planning process and prior to an actual incident.
In general, the best practice followed by most school and public safety officials is to evaluate each incident on a case-by-case basis and determine whether to evacuate accordingly. We are concerned with the number of schools around the country immediately jumping to evacuations, often by pulling the fire alarm without the fire department knowing that such a procedure is being used for bomb threat evacuation rather than an actual fire.

Obviously, the school and police were following their set guidelines to ensure the safety of all involved. Like I said earlier in this thread, It seems like society is nitpicky in their concerns and demands based all on proproganda.

[Kidlicious]

This is federal law, thanks in part to Bill Clinton, who signed the Gun Free Schools Act in 1994. It required all schools who receive federal funding (all schools) to implement zero tolerance policies regarding weapons, and fake weapons.

http://news.heartland.org/editorial/zero-tolerance-federal-mandates

As I said, this happens everywhere.

Now how many idiots will still not understand?

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

Yes and the kid admitted in a video that he secured the case with a strap to make it look less suspicious.....therefore he knew it COULD and most likely WOULD look suspicious. That proves premeditation and it matters not if he was aware there is a hoax bomb law on the books in Texas. I knew certain things were stupid and reckless when i was 5, to say nothing of when i was 14. if this kid is as smart as some people claim, he most certainly knew what he was doing.

[grumbler]

Okay, I just went over every post I made in this thread. When the hell did this happen?

Ah, post 169. The hearsay in question was that administrators are frequently incompetent teachers who got promoted to get them away from teaching. Well, I've also met a fair number of incompetent administrators, both as a student and as a sub. Does that count?

I've met a fair number of incompetent administrators myself, not as a sub but as an education professional myself, having taught at multiple levels of schools (middle, high, and college) in several states. I've never seen one, however, that was "promoted to get them away from teaching." Hell, I don't even know who would be in a position to decide that a teacher needed to be gotten away from teaching by making him or her an administrator.

[grumbler]

I read that for one to make a bomb, there is a simple acronym to remember : PIES
this child had all but one ingredient. He had the Power, Initiator, and the Switch, all that he was missing to make a Explosive device was the explosive.

So do you. Should the police cuff you and drag you off to the police station?

[grumbler]

This school was not evacuated.

That's because no one, except perhaps the English teacher, was ever worried that this was a bomb.

[grumbler]

This is federal law, thanks in part to Bill Clinton, who signed the Gun Free Schools Act in 1994. It required all schools who receive federal funding (all schools) to implement zero tolerance policies regarding weapons, and fake weapons.

http://news.heartland.org/editorial/zero-tolerance-federal-mandates

As I said, this happens everywhere.

Now how many idiots will still not understand?

This was neither a weapon nor a fake weapon. When will the idiots understand that clocks are not weapons?

[grumbler]

Yes and the kid admitted in a video that he secured the case with a strap to make it look less suspicious.....therefore he knew it COULD and most likely WOULD look suspicious. That proves premeditation and it matters not if he was aware there is a hoax bomb law on the books in Texas. I knew certain things were stupid and reckless when i was 5, to say nothing of when i was 14. if this kid is as smart as some people claim, he most certainly knew what he was doing.

You make assumptions about the kid's intelligence even though he did nothing illegal, and yet let the administrators and cops, who actually acted illegally, off the hook for their stupidity because... well, because. If you were smart enough at age 5 not to act illegally, then what excuse to full adults have for their illegal acts? They most certainly knew what they were doing, and most certainly knew it was illegal.

[Lorizael]

Yes and the kid admitted in a video that he secured the case with a strap to make it look less suspicious.....therefore he knew it COULD and most likely WOULD look suspicious.

So what you're saying is that this kid didn't build a bomb, didn't tell anyone he was building a bomb, and specifically built his non-bomb so that it didn't look like a bomb... and yet he was still arrested for making a hoax bomb?

[SlowwHand]

I think you should be in charge of checking potential bombs, since you're so all-knowing, grumbler.

[Kidlicious]

This was neither a weapon nor a fake weapon. When will the idiots understand that clocks are not weapons?

It looks as much like a fake gun as a hand with a finger pointing out looks like a gun. You liberals love to tell stories. And we love to read them.

[The Mad Monk]

That's because no one, except perhaps the English teacher, was ever worried that this was a bomb.

Yes, that was my point.

[Kidlicious]

Yes, that was my point.

Irrelevant

[The Mad Monk]

This is federal law, thanks in part to Bill Clinton, who signed the Gun Free Schools Act in 1994. It required all schools who receive federal funding (all schools) to implement zero tolerance policies regarding weapons, and fake weapons.

http://news.heartland.org/editorial/zero-tolerance-federal-mandates

As I said, this happens everywhere.

Now how many idiots will still not understand?

You realize that article is about how stupid that law turned out to be, right?