Posted on 12/15/2015, 6:12:24 PM by Responsibility2nd
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The latest on the closure of Los Angeles Unified School District schools due to a threat (all times local):
9:40 a.m.
New York City officials say they and many cities across the country received the same threat that closed the Los Angeles school system.
Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Tuesday that the threat came in the form of a "generic" email and that New York officials quickly concluded that it wasn't credible.
Los Angeles Unified School District officials say they closed all of the system's more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools as a precaution.
A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said the threat involved bombs in students' backpacks. The official wasn't authorized to speak about an ongoing investigation and insisted on anonymity.
District spokeswoman Shannon Haber says the threat was emailed to a school board member late Monday.
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This whole incident tells me that Angelenos care much more about their children than New Yorkers do.
DiBlasio and Bratton dance to the tune of Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thank God for the Superintendent of LA Schools and for his courage and fortitude!
My bride’s school gets bomb threats all the time during finals week.
They are ignored. Guess what week it is.
Me, too!
Better safe than sorry.
Which headline would we rather see this morning:
“LA Schools Shut Down by Superintendent”
or
“Hundreds of Elementary School Children Slaughtered by ISIS”
???
Those are threats from the brats she teaches and are easily traceable.
I asked a few questions and left, but man, the traffic getting home was horrible. It took me more than twice as long as it did to come in.
Finals week here too. I am shocked - shocked, I tell you - at how cynical some of the older professors get at this time of the year. Shocked.
If teachers taught the material fully and properly, instead of referring kids to their tablets, there would be no need for homework.
The superintendent working with the FBI made the call. They were aware of the pictures of the high schools in LA on the terrorist's cell phone.
Not always. Some a rather creative in how they make them.
I'm glad to see that some leadership in this Nation has balls. Threats should not change our way of life. Suspending anything is capitulation.
Homework has a place. You can’t really cover a subject in just 50 minutes. For things like math, you need to do a lot of drill and repetition till it sets in.
Exactly! At least there was some leadership in this Nation that won't surrender to a mere threat.
That isn't accomplished by putting the tail between the legs and hiding. That is accomplished by hardening the targets and maybe even inspecting each and every backpack.
DO NOT GIVE IN, we are not a Nation of cowards. Well, we are not supposed to be.
No, it doesn't. It proves the New Yorkers know how to assess threats. It proves they will not capitulate to terror. Kalifornica is all about capitulation: to Mexicans, terrorists, liberals, communists. Just name it. Kalifornicans are made of jellie.
“New Yorkers know how to assess threats”...
You mean like on 9-11-01?
If you’re a public official and you have 600,000 kids under your care, you listen to a bomb threat.
I don’t fault anyone for the way they responded to this. Those who were comfortable with their school’s situation have my support and those who didn’t also have it.
In New York the terrorists usually get stopped by the average passengers on the E train and no one ever hears from them ever again.
Another big whiney baby who needs a safe place with a teddy bear and a blankie.
Just two tiny points: One, no warning was given prior to that attack. Two, the failure to anticipate that falls squarely on Federal agencies, not NY state.
Even more, the affect 9/11 had on this Nation is pitiful. The terrorists won, lock stock and barrel. So much has changed with no real increase in security.
Glad shutting down the schools in California makes you feel safe.
What happens tomorrow when 500 school systems nation wide get these threats.
Their trial run was successful in Ca, they will do it again
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