Posted on 09/19/2014 4:10:06 AM PDT by markomalley
A “suspicious” looking middle school student with a “green military-type jacket” sent a Connecticut school into lockdown for two hours Tuesday.
A school staff member alerted school authorities to a suspicious man roaming the school hallway, describing the person as roughly 5 feet 7 inches and wearing a green military-type jacket. School officials relayed the possible threat to police, who issued a lockdown around 11 a.m., NBC reports.
“Officers searched the John F. Kennedy Middle School and its surrounding grounds, but police said the initial search ‘revealed nothing of a suspicious nature,’” WFSB.com reports.
The school district alerted parents of the lockdown, which of course made them very worried. Several nervous parents waited outside of the school during the search, but those who approached were told to go back and wait in their cars, according to WFSB.
“We got a phone call 15 to 20 minutes ago saying a teacher saw a suspicious person in the area and that’s all they said,” parent Courtney Peluso told the news site.
“It bothers me a little bit, it makes me wonder who is walking around, but they’re safe like the officer said, they are safe,” parent Andrea Smith said.
Meanwhile, school staff secured the school’s 800 students in classrooms and the cafeteria, superintendent Tim Connellan said.
At some point, police and school officials found a student fitting the description, and he was deemed not a threat. Police then conducted a second search, just in case, before giving the “all-clear” around 1 p.m., NBC reports.
Connellan told WFSB the student was walking in the hallway, while other students were in class, so that’s why the staff member who reported him was so suspicious, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Don’t students walk the hallway to go to the restroom all the time when other students are in class?
Perhaps it was the green jacket that make him look like a terrorist threat.
Regardless, the superintendent said neither the student nor the staffer who reported him will face disciplinary action.
NBC reports the lockdown at JFK Middle School is the second in recent weeks, after issued a lockdown a few weeks ago while investigating a nearby back robbery.
Several who posted to the news sites had some harsh criticisms for how school officials handled the suspicious person complaint.
“All over a ‘military style jacket.’ Gee, what’s going to happen when someone wears their Cub Scout or Boy Scout uniform to school?” WFSB poster KRB052 questioned.
“Is it any surprise why American students lag behind their international peers when this is the caliber of people ‘educating’ them?” @ToucanSamLV posted.
“Good grief! I used to wear my dad’s military jacket to school all the time,” Wayne Kovacs posted to the NBC story. “Some innocent kid is going to get killed because of OVER VIGILANT, ‘BETTER-SAFE-THAN-SORRY’ IDIOT!”
“Fear is what will ruin this nation,” Brian Kelnohofer wrote. “Fear is what will turn this nation into a police state.”
What is the EAG News?
Correction: he does have an over-the-ear wired earpice. $19 on Amazon.
Definitely needs a makeover
We didnt have this problem when all the school Principals were men.
I pulled mine out of storage a couple months ago to try it on and somehow it had shrunk........
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Along about 2000 went on the USS Enterprise (CVN65) for a ‘day cruise’ and the most significant thing I noticed about her was - even though she was built in ‘my era’ - that the ladders were steeper and the passageways narrower.
Amazing how something that big can have ‘shrinkage’.
Must be from the time it spends in the water????
Yours too? This appears to be a trend.
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Regardless, the superintendent said neither the student nor the staffer who reported him will face disciplinary action.
A medal to the staffer for bravery and a warning to the student for scaring everyone.
What in the hell are we becoming???
Connecticut is no longer America and should be purged from the Union.
Thanks
the tense is wrong. Be brave.....
What have we become? is the proper question.
If you won’t admit the problem actually exists, we are in big trouble.
that means we are
Chicken little. They panic enough times over stupid stuff like this and everyone becomes desensitized to it. When it is eventually real - and another attack is certain as long as schools remain defenseless victim zones - well, the attitude will be “what is it this time” and people will be slow to react. ...
Some one could shut down this whole country with just phone calls, with these morons in charge
Of course, fabric shrinks all the time. What really puzzles me is how my neoprene wetsuit keeps shrinking.
I can see the panic if the attire of the student looked like the one in Joe-6 pacs posted photo in #6 above.
Now THAT attire might raise some suspicion
Public schools were not so bad when the public did not consist of hysterical ninnies.
When I was in HS wearing a flight jacket in the winter was fashionable for a lot of my friends.
Wore a M65 Field Coat all thru High school. Loved it because it had pockets that acted like a mobile Locker.
Cant find good M65s anymore....its a shame.
I get the Vapors whenever I see OD Green.
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