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Sstudents sneaking back into Jamaica Queens high schools prompts lockdown
CBS New York ^ | 12/18/15 | Matt Kozar

Posted on 12/18/2014 9:00:11 PM PST by EinNYC

A scare forces a local high school to go on lockdown. CBS2's Matt Kozar reports. Watch video.

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I have been stationed at this school (actually, Jamaica HS was closed last year due to poor performance and 4 small schools were carved out within that magnificent building). I and 3 other teachers had to spend an hour locked in the teachers lounge, our location when the lockdown was announced over the PA system. We spotted a music teacher and 4 students carrying saxophones out in the hall, and grabbed them into the teachers lounge. We locked the door, turned out the lights, and drew the blind over the door window. For all we knew, it was the next Adam Lanza stalking the halls looking for victims I urged the 4 students to be absolutely quiet, but they were apparently unable to muster the slightest maturity or intelligence to comply. I spent the next hour under lockdown having to repeat, "Ssssh! Quiet!" about every 2 minutes.

Forget after-school appointments, picking up your kids from child care, or any other after-school commitment. No one was allowed to leave the lockdown until the order to do so came over the school PA. We ended up having to spend almost an hour past our customary quitting time in lockdown.

It turned out to be 2 imbecile students who sneaked out for lunch. They knew there were video cameras trained on the entrances, so they figured, "No problem. We'll wear these black ski masks to avoid identification by camera when we sneak back in."

A principal spotted them on the video camera and called down the lockdown. All the problems described in the video ensued because of these brain dead imbeciles who thought they'd game the system. I was unable to pick up some prescription that were waiting at the pharmacy for me because the pharmacy closed by the time I could leave the school and run another couple of essential errands. Thanks, you thoughtless imbeciles.

The worst part is, because they had no weapons, they will not be charged with anything. They will get by with merely some sort of school discipline, a slap on the wrist.

No wonder they figure they can get away with something outrageous like this. They know they can.

1 posted on 12/18/2014 9:00:11 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

The students in question show poor thinking skills. They’re some of the last who should be skipping school. Isn’t it always that way though? At least they’ll be receiving Detention- maybe.


2 posted on 12/18/2014 9:10:52 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Or drop out and go the EBT government dole route.


3 posted on 12/18/2014 9:14:12 PM PST by doc1019
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To: EinNYC
It turned out to be 2 imbecile students who sneaked out for lunch.

Blame the Mooch. If lunches were better, none of this would have happened...

Unintended consequences, and all that.

4 posted on 12/18/2014 9:15:39 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

NOT in the slightest bit funny. I’d have expected a higher class remark from a FReeper.


5 posted on 12/18/2014 9:16:20 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

2 imbecile students and 1 imbecile principal.


6 posted on 12/18/2014 9:21:43 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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Well, why did they sneak out for lunch, then? Maybe the Lobster Thermidor wasn't up to snuff.

Really.

I'd have expected a FReeper who could laugh in the face of adversity.

7 posted on 12/18/2014 9:22:12 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: EinNYC

Had to stay a whole hour past quitting time. Sheesh.

Sad that two kids skipping a period can cause such turmoil.


8 posted on 12/18/2014 9:22:38 PM PST by SengirV
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To: EinNYC

Jamaica high school, Queens: 45% black, 25% Asian, 19% hispanic, 1% white.
Mascot, the Beavers.
Everyone knows that when you’ve got to cut classes, you’ve gotta figure the windows out. Cameras are trained on doors.
This school needs more white kids.


9 posted on 12/18/2014 9:27:09 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: EinNYC

New York is a hypocritical fraud. For all its “liberalism” and “progressive” politics it is the most segregated state in the Union. Just compare NYC to Long Island. Compare the schools, the neighborhoods, the hospitals, virtually everything. Its two different worlds. Also try finding one child of a prominent NYC liberal that actually attends regular city public schools.


10 posted on 12/18/2014 9:28:03 PM PST by allendale
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To: EinNYC
NOT in the slightest bit funny.

I thought it was slightly funny...

But your comments were even more humorous.

11 posted on 12/18/2014 9:28:30 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: metmom

arth ping


12 posted on 12/18/2014 9:36:25 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
We had NO idea what was going on. Could have been another attempt at a Newtown. We had 4 students in our care who were dumber than dog leavings. EVERY 2 minutes I had to repeat my, "Ssssh! Absolute quiet!" Only when I showed them a text on my phone from a teacher friend which mentioned "3 masked men with GUNS wandering the halls of Jamaica High School" did they shut up. Guess it was the mention of guns. I showed them 5 years of my online vacation photos, suggested via a note that they start a game of tic-tac-toe, everything I could do to keep them busy and quiet. It was like babysitting kindergarten kids instead of high school kids.

Then, of all the days for this to happen, I came home to find a group of about 30 high school kids, probably from the superbrain exclusive high school around the corner, marching down my block chanting, "Hands up, don't shoot." This was really the LIVING END to a crummy day. These pathetic deluded sheeple having had their heads filled with rabble-rousing nonsense instead of critical thinking skills sufficient to glean the truth from the evidence really ticked me off. They were mostly white or Asian, and here they were, a pathetic parody of a protesting group, raising their little fists in a show of very tame outrage.

No, the LAST thing this was was funny.

13 posted on 12/18/2014 9:37:26 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

I lived in that neighborhood when I was 5 years old. Interesting to see what’s going on there now.


14 posted on 12/18/2014 10:21:20 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: EinNYC

“No, the LAST thing this was was funny.”

Not to you perhaps, but when you have schools suspending first graders for pointing an index finger at another kid, this kind of overreaction is funny to me.

Why the panic? It’s just two kids... There’s nothing illegal about wearing a ski mask. What a bunch of chicken $hits.


15 posted on 12/18/2014 10:22:41 PM PST by babygene
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To: EinNYC

That’s some early closing pharmacy.... if it closes by 5 or 6P.


16 posted on 12/18/2014 10:44:05 PM PST by mdmathis6 ("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
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To: tumblindice

What’s the other 10 per cent? the transsexual and/or homosexual race?(/s)


17 posted on 12/18/2014 10:46:07 PM PST by mdmathis6 ("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
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To: EinNYC
I guess I look at life a little differently. On a REALLY bad day, people would have bled out.

If your school has metal detectors, maybe you should have a trace from the detector readings synched with the video so you can tell if the masked people are packing a weapon, even though there is a possibility of false positives.

What you are not doing is counting your blessings that it was just a scare, and not a serious event.

As for...We had 4 students in our care who were dumber than dog leavings.

and

These pathetic deluded sheeple having had their heads filled with rabble-rousing nonsense instead of critical thinking skills sufficient to glean the truth from the evidence really ticked me off.

Where are the educators? if you are one, you can change that, in as much as it can be changed in any individual case. As a great-grandpa, I have found most kids can be taught to have common sense, to think ahead, and to analyze information well enough to weed out BS. They DO need some guidance until they get it, but teaching them to think is way different than having them parrot back the party line or truisms of 'conventional wisdom'. So, from your faux crisis comes opportunity. It is up to you to use it.

And yes, when your blood pressure goes back down, maybe some day you will find the wherewithal to laugh at today's events.

In this day and age, dark humor keeps us sane.

Have a better tomorrow--make it that way.

18 posted on 12/18/2014 10:58:32 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: babygene
There’s nothing illegal about wearing a ski mask.

Not so unusual here (ND), and it sure beats frostbite.

Sheesh, if they locked down the schools here every time some kid came in in a ski mask, they'd go to school all summer and have winter off.

19 posted on 12/18/2014 11:02:15 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: mdmathis6

I cited the Wikipedia entry ‘School Statistics’ verbatim.
10% Jamaica High recidivist students? Maybe a grad wrote the article.


20 posted on 12/18/2014 11:07:54 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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