A while back I posted on here about a student that had a plot to shoot up my school. Well that has had basically everyone on edge. Today apparently there was a bomb threat that was deemed credible enough to evacuate the entire 1200 student body. When the school administration went on the PA to announce it, nobody ( including the teachers) heard it all clearly . The only thing I heard were the words " threat" and "evacuate". I wasn't sure if it was something like a gas leak, a shooter or a bomb threat. I didn't hear any shots or screaming on my way out the door, so I figured it likely wasn't a shooter. I should have gone to my truck parked on the street near the school but I followed the crowd to the middle School half a mile away, where we were locked in the auditorium until they released us several hours later. Turns out that there were 3 similar threat made around Wisconsin. I don't see why a person would do that. It's completely disgusting.

SORRY TO HEAR THIS ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL!
Sad it's becoming the norm , since Obama was in office!
Thank God you and your school mates are OK!

Yeah, if this happens again in the future, go to your truck and LEAVE. You can deal with the repercussions of that later. Main thing is you staying safe.

What the heck is going on in Chippewa Falls?

The same thing that has happened in many other communities where more legislation has been used to create morality.
Nothing isn't happening that hasn't happened in past history. When solid advice was disregarded then it was no surprise fables was resorted to. Not that the fables were evil themselves but the evil part was the rejecting of everything moral and decent.

The 3 little pigs finally sought refuge in a brick house which the wolf couldn't huff and puff and blow it down. But instead the wolf went down the chimney into a pot of boiling water.
The trick is to be able live in a brick house without making it a prison. When the wolf has more rights than the kids living a free life, is when the kids become hostage to the rights of the wolf.

The principle of Little Red Riding Hood is diminished when the wolf is no longer saw as a threat but is just a misunderstood furry creature friend lol.

Bomb threats at schools is nothing new. I remember it happening a few times when I was in school in the 80s. And it seems you hear about it a couple times a year from somewhere on the news or something.

Bomb threats are nothing new. I was in high school 1968-72 and we had a couple every year. Some butthead playing hooky would drop a dime in a payphone and the school would empty.

I don't know that going to your truck instead of where you are told to go is such a great idea. The school administration is definitely going to have an issue with it and they are going to suspect you of making the bomb threat. On the other hand, it is probably the safest action. Packing 1200 students into an auditorium, students that were originally dispersed throughout a school but are now congregated, created a more vulnerable situation. Not very smart.

Sorry to hear that you had to experience that.

Unfortunately Bomb threats at schools are nothing new. When I was in highschool there was a period. We were out of the building a couple times a week with bomb threats. That was back when clackers were a thing and teachers would confiscate them if someone started clacking while we stood in school yard, waiting for building to be cleared. So bomb threats in schools aren't tied to any particular political party. As a former firefighter years ago I made trips to various schools for Anthrax scares. Bet people here don't recall that period in time. Then there were several of the shake and bake bottle bombs. So anyways the school shooter thing was new at the end of my fire career.
But bomb threats thing has been going on since at least the 1970s. During the Vietnam war protest they actually blew up a building on university of WI Madison.
Schools have been targeted in various ways for years. Don't make it right just nothing new if you been around a while.


Mac

Sorry to hear this.
a lot of the time some wise guy kid writes a Bomb threat note , leaves it in bathroom. Ha Ha Funny.
He or she gets caught they have a criminal record for the rest of their lives. not so funny any more.

Truth

ChippewaTrapper I saw in the local news weau threr was already one kid picked up while out on break that had threatened the school, said he wouldn't be allowed back immediately, kind of wondering if a week our was enough punishment in their opinion. I went to that school in the late 90s and my nieces went in the early 2010s sister pulled them for Eau Claire as chippewa was going downhill fast and no repercussions for truly bad behavior. Minor offences treated harshly anything major was swept under a rug.

thinking about this from the communications side , this is what I do , and why most of the facilities I work with have a codes system it keeps it short and clear and it is repeated 3 times over the PA

unfortunately people yell into the PA and this makes it harder to hear because the microphone clips the audio when it gets over driven.

we also have the the international phonetic alphabet for a reason , it is carefully selected words to not sound like anything else over the radio

Alfa , Bravo , Charlie , Delta , Echo , Foxtrot

also called the NATO phonetic alphabet because beside pilots world wide other nations might have their own but all the friendlies use this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

I am also a believer in radios , class rooms should have radios , each teacher assigned one.

as others pointed out not a new issue , what is sad is that we haven't been asking how can we be prepared for it better over and over and constantly training it.
an AAR after action report after every event with a serious talk what went well , what went wrong where do we see the deficiencies.

I get it teachers are busy and not tactical minded , that is where we need local resources in LE or other EM to get involved with the conversation.

in 2018 we did a very extensive active shooter training in my town, we had a LOT of people involved every area ERT/SWAT sent a rep , sheriff and area PDs fire EMS , bus company , even had an FBI rep
so much of the planning is actually the after the threat is neutralized , that is largely going to be up to the first person(s) to respond.
triage , transport , reunification , traffic , and the list goes on it is a logistical hurdle everyone wants to help but knowing the plan is huge.

unfortunately it is 2024 and we have had some PD refreshers of the plan as we have a lot of new officers since 2018 but we almost need to get everyone together again and run the plan
dispatch has changed over , fire has new chief and captains , EMS has changed over , bus company is the same but a lot of drivers have changed over.

Chippewa trapper , with your parents write down your AAR your assessment of what went right and wrong and then have your parents address this with the superintendent.
they may not get a lot of feedback positive or negative that isn't just a short gripe about the inconvenience from the students , a well written assessment of what you saw , heard , and did , what you would have liked to be better , what you thought they did right.



by chance , when they moved you to the auditorium at the middle school half mile away did they have you drop all backpacks before entering or were you allowed to enter with your coats and packs?

while the move to the auditorium isn't ideal in your mind they need to secure the safety of the students as best they can , a controlled space pre-secured by LE a half mile away is not a bad thing , I would have taken it a bit further no backpacks into the auditorium and a quick search of students on the way into the auditorium
not an extensive search , but jacket off to your shirt , shake the jacket while being watched as you enter then you can put your hoodie or jacket back on.

a major concern is a bunch of students leaving in their POVs and getting in a car accident or causing other mischief around town , while police are busy working the school.

moving you to the middle school auditorium made it not a free day off school.
chances are it was a threat made by someone in the school to get a day off , if it becomes more of a Suck than just having classes it is less likely to repeat.

Don't they have caller ID?

Bad advice!!!!

They're taking them to a different location and making sure all are accounted for. He'll be getting a visit from the po-po if he leaves the area. They'll think he had something to do with it.

Best thing is to suck it up and go sit at the other school and not have to worry about doing any school work.

We had an incident in our local school district. Not as bad as a bomb threat. A couple of students from the public school posed as janitors and went into the local Catholic school during school hours on prank day. They ran streamers all up and down the hall then put confetti "canons" all up and down the halls. They set one off in the office and the ladies there got scared and called the cops. They locked all the schools down in the area.

They moved the kids to the football field at the Catholic school. They took a count of the students and found a few that were missing. They went and picked them up, put them in cuffs and took them to the police station. They held them until their parents came. They considered them suspects and held them overnight, in 2 cases 2 nights until they cleared them.

One of the students was salutatorian of the senior class. He ended up losing his place in the ranking, got suspended, and lost his scholarships.

Everyone of the students that left were suspended and lost their places on their perspective sports and clubs.

The 3 or 4 students from the public school that engineered the prank ended up being charged.

No one under 25 makes a phone call anymore , they (insert online messaging platform here)

Some people ,,,,not me,,,, would occasionally drop m 80s in the toilets in the high school I graduated from (I know hard to believe)

We/ they would be in prison if ya did it now……

Two years ago in the coming spring we had 5 days in a row of bomb threats. No school for a week. Traced the e-mail threats to a place in California. Never did find the guilty parties.

Bryce