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    big_sobber (goooooooodbye, baby)Joanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:50am

    “Nothing is more important than the safety of our kids.”

    As the Sandy Hook massacre has shown us, freedom of gun ownership is actually more important in the US than kids’ safety.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenebig_sobber (goooooooodbye, baby)
      12/15/15 10:58am

      exactly, that shit feels so hollow.

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      MessO'Espresso is a noodle-bodied slothbig_sobber (goooooooodbye, baby)
      12/15/15 11:00am

      At least California is trying. Neighboring states screw it over though with lax regulations.

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    SqarrJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:51am

    Awesome.

    Free day off.

    The new normal is great.

    Just great.

    Needs more guns, though. You gotta be specific. Without guns, it’s just not freedom, is it?

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      Iwona BurgundaSqarr
      12/15/15 11:01am

      Somehow still better than school being cancelled for a week due to extreme cold and being a poor district unable to afford heating. (Fun fact: I grew up in the town King of the Hill is based on.)

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      dalilaSqarr
      12/15/15 11:03am

      I can’t react until I know if this story is about TERRORISM or FREEDOM.

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    Kenny and the LlamasJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:54am

    Watched this develop on the news this morning. First indication something was up was all the buses turning around and heading back to the yards.

    Hopefully a lot of people’s bosses are being cool about no-notice phone calls saying “Hey, I gotta stay home with my kids today.”

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneKenny and the Llamas
      12/15/15 11:03am

      bosses will probably be ok in most office type jobs. But retail this close to the holidays and the food service industry are probably not going to be so understanding.

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      MiloMinderbenderKenny and the Llamas
      12/15/15 11:28am

      (I live in LA and am LAUSD teacher-affiliated) Lots of stay-at-home parents were offering to take classmates home with them this morning and I know of at least two employers who sent mass texts ok’ing everyone to bring kids to work today.

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    GELLA - LLAPJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:50am

    its an official day: of bring your gun to school

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      deerlady83GELLA - LLAP
      12/15/15 11:39am

      I didn't get that memo. I just brought a gingerbread house for my students to decorate.

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      QuanYindeerlady83
      12/15/15 2:08pm

      Wait, what? You brought FOOD, which might contain GLUTEN, or ALLERGENS or TOXINS or ARTIFICIAL COLORS AND/OR FLAVORS into a school building? You monster! Don’t you know that the biggest threat facing our nation’s school children is the possibility that they might come within 50 feet of something they are allergic to? Shame on you for putting your students at risk! Shame!

      If you really care about the kids, you’d be locked and loaded every day, and ready to be the good person with the gun ready to take out the bad person with the gun.

      Your priorities are obviously totally fucked up.

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    jedi4lifeJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:53am

    suspects include mrs. wilson’s 9th grade physics class who had a test scheduled for today.

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      Iwona Burgundajedi4life
      12/15/15 11:02am

      Fucking Mrs. Wilson. Jesus, why can't we just do the egg drop off roof project like everyone else?

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      Dances With Hamstersjedi4life
      12/15/15 12:08pm

      Or a boy with a clock

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    NullSpaceJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:55am

    When I was a kid we had snow days. I think I’ll stop talking about how kids these days have it better now

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      WallflowerNullSpace
      12/15/15 11:10am

      We had snow days and fire drills when I was in elementary school. Then we started adding active shooter drills and we had to add tornado drills even though we hadnt historically had tornadoes in this area but now we do!. Basically humans are a plague and have fucked everything up.

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      AcesNinesNullSpace
      12/15/15 11:12am

      *looks out window at 54° mid-December day in New Hampshire*

      Yeah, I miss those days too.

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    RicwashJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:57am

    I heard this on my way in to work. The horrible part is that the students that were being bused were already on their buses, and well on their way. The buses had to be recalled to the yards. The students that were already on campus have to be held in a central area until a parent or guardian can be located to retrieve them.

    Outlying districts, like the one my daughter attends, are calling parents and telling them not to panic. It is not a good day to be a parent in Los Angeles. :(

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      EmpressConstancePants lost her loginRicwash
      12/15/15 11:08am

      Ugh, I’m sorry. This must be so stressful for everyone involved: people who need to get time off work or alternate childcare, people whose schedules have gotten badly snarled because of this, and of course everyone who’s just plain scared for their child’s safety. I couldn't imagine how you all will feel when the kids get to back. :(

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      Starbuck's MomRicwash
      12/15/15 12:11pm

      We are in CCUSD and have school. For which I am grateful.

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    Story ArqJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 11:22am

    But my LA-based private school is still open, and after having a lockdown last Friday after receiving two suspicious calls to the school, I am very much not looking forward to the general vibe at work today.

    Sigh. Is this just how life is now?

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      BathtubStuStory Arq
      12/15/15 11:32am

      I have a kid in one of those schools today and I’m really uneasy. I may pull my kid as soon as my meetings are over.

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      cuzmydogeatspooBathtubStu
      12/15/15 11:54am

      Some private open/some closed. One tried to close but too many kids there already. This shit happened way too late in the morning.

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    GrizzlyAdamsBeardJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 10:47am

    I’m torn. Obviously, if there’s a threat to a school you should take precautions, but closing EVERY school seems overkill. That’s a lot of parents who have to stay home and employers who get screwed.

    Hopefully this was a prank and they make an example of the fucker when caught.

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      Jacobm001GrizzlyAdamsBeard
      12/15/15 10:51am

      Well, if the threat was made that a bomb would go off in a school in the X area, it makes sense that they wouldn’t necessarily know which school to close. If the threat was deemed credible, it seems better to be safe then have a bunch of kids dead.

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      blackbird2727GrizzlyAdamsBeard
      12/15/15 10:55am

      Yeah, if there really was a threat to unspecified schools, I would rather be safe than sorry. I heard though after I’d already dropped my daughter off at the bus stop. I don’t understand why we get so many robocalls about everything, and Cortines couldn’t make the time before the press conference to send out one of his robocalls.

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    Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionJoanna Rothkopf
    12/15/15 1:09pm

    Remember back in the day when you could be totally sure that the “bomb threat” was just a kid trying to get out of test? They used to evacuate us out to the field in the middle of the test and we’d be standing around laughing and joking.

    I feel less sure of all that now.

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      fightslikeagirlLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
      12/15/15 1:58pm

      Tons of people making those jokes on Twitter, but it’s not funny for anyone with a kid in the LA-area. Because, to your point, we’re no longer ‘back in the day.’ We’re in the now, and the now is scary.

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      Ladyheatherlee 2016 Editionfightslikeagirl
      12/15/15 2:01pm

      Yup. Times have definitely changed.

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