Yesterday

This is what was going on yesterday morning...

It was one of those moments where you get an instant pit in your stomach. Yesterday morning I was working on my lesson plans for the week and heard the school announcing something over the intercom which seemed to last longer than normal. I opened up the backdoor and heard the principal announce it was a "code blue" and for the kids to come inside quickly.

Gotta love the internet... logged on and found out what was going on. Someone had posted on Facebook that there was going to be a school shooting between 2-4pm. Pretty scary... I knew our kiddos were safe but wondered how that affected me going to school for work. Since the school was on lockdown no one could leave or enter so I called and sure enough I couldn't go in to work. Was one of those days where you just kind of pace and think I know there is something I'm suppose to be doing.

Later in the afternoon they found it to be a hoax and the schools were opened for release. I went over and picked up the kiddos and they looked at me like, "What are you doing here?" (I usually let them walk home).

Their take on the whole thing... they were a bit scared when they were outside on the playground and the code blue was announced and everyone started screaming and running inside. But once in the classroom it was business as usual so they were really unaffected.

Read in the paper this morning it was a 26 year old who made the claim on facebook... they wanted to see what kind of response it would get!! Nice.