"About what you say after this: I have to admit, I'm Dutch so you probably know more about how it works in America. Here, though, when you have a free period or let off early, you can just go home. You can do drugs, you can drink coffee, you can watch a movie for all they care. I don't think (but I'm not sure) they're still responsible. And after a bomb threat my school would probably freak and want to know all students are safe, so that would change the situation. (Then again, we've never had bomb threats, nor do I know of any schools who have, so I don't know what the Dutch policy on that is.)"
It might just be my school. I don't know if it's an American-wide thing. I just know that when I was in high school, everyone was let home once because we lost all electricity. We had to stay in our homerooms for a good ten to twenty minutes, and then we could only go home after the homeroom teacher got permission from our parents. She called each kid's family individually, had them get on the classroom phone, and only then were they let out.
Presumably for a bomb threat, they'd also want to make sure that all students are present and accounted for, especially post-9/11, Columbine shootings, etc.
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Date: 2012-08-12 04:55 am (UTC)It might just be my school. I don't know if it's an American-wide thing. I just know that when I was in high school, everyone was let home once because we lost all electricity. We had to stay in our homerooms for a good ten to twenty minutes, and then we could only go home after the homeroom teacher got permission from our parents. She called each kid's family individually, had them get on the classroom phone, and only then were they let out.
Presumably for a bomb threat, they'd also want to make sure that all students are present and accounted for, especially post-9/11, Columbine shootings, etc.