Normalcy returning after high school bomb
threats
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April 24, 2013 |
By High School Reporter Sally Balcaen
Things have slowly trickled back to normal at
Bonners Ferry High School following the rash of
bomb threats that occurred from the first
through third quarter of this school year.
The week the students returned from Spring
Break, the school administration removed closed
campus, once again allowing all students to walk
or drive away for their lunch break.
A week after this first step, bathroom monitors
no longer had to be placed in front of the
bathrooms to routinely check the bathrooms.
All three of the bathrooms were opened, instead
of only two. The sign-in sheets were also
removed from the bathroom entrance, now allowing
students to freely enter the bathrooms during
passing periods.
However, the administration is still requiring
that students to sign in and out during class
time and include the time upon leaving and
returning to class. Also, the locker rooms now
remain locked and are only unlocked when classes
enter to change for P.E. classes.
However, while students still find this a slight
annoyance, most students feel that it is “not
too big a deal” and “it’s become a normal
thing," considering the other measures that used
to be in place.
All students, however, are overjoyed that the
bathroom monitors and sign-in sheets are gone,
thus giving students more privacy.
Not all traces of the many bomb threat
occurrences have disappeared, though.
Students still reflexively cringe when the
loudspeaker goes on suddenly in the middle of
class. Or if it happens to be in the middle of a
passing period, the halls will get suddenly
quiet.
If there is too long of a pause when the
loudspeaker turns on, students begin to eye each
other nervously.
“It’s kind of funny when it happens, but
hopefully the effect will wear off soon,” says
one student. |
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