Bomb Threats in Preschool?
By jodylee
@jodylee (946)
United States
September 19, 2011 8:13pm CST
So my 4 year old started his second week of preschool and he was sent to the YMCA on a bus full of high school kids after a bomb threat was found in the highschool. The poor kid was a mess. Thankfully my husband works at the Y and when he came out he found my little man on the ground crying and scared. His teacher was with him but he was a mess.
So after he got his self together, he asked his daddy, "why would anyone want to blow up the school, its so much fun." The innocence of it. I hope to raise my children to understand and respect the world they live in...
Geesh! What a way to start the week!
4 responses
@Shar19 (8231)
• United States
22 Sep 11
That's really ashame. Kids shouldn't have to worry about stuff like bombs. I think maybe the teachers should have told them that they were going on a "field trip" to the YMCA instead of telling them about the bomb threat. The poor kids didn't need to know that.
@jodylee (946)
• United States
23 Sep 11
I think that is a great suggestion and I am going to pass that on to the teachers so they might be able to prepare for any further issues. Hopefully they will better prepare. The hard part with my son's preschool is that it is part of the high school, so he is faced with those issues that high school kids deal with.
@anonima73 (153)
• Puerto Rico
25 Sep 11
Wow...this will surely traumatize your son in his view towards school forever...I recommend you take him to counseling as this can become more serious later in his life. I'm sorry you all had to go trough this and at such an important time in his life too...such an innocent child..I almost feel like crying.. I am sure you are a great mother and will raise this boy how to be a unique human being. I hate heartless bombing b*****s like this. They might mess with adults but don't they dare mess with the children....
@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
23 Sep 11
That's terrible!
I would have the same question as your little man.
My son also has the same impression about his kindergarten. He's always happy to wake up in the morning and go to school, because he thinks it's so fun. He even starting to hate weekends as there's no school.
I hope that bomb threat neve happens again in your son's preschool.
@jodylee (946)
• United States
24 Sep 11
Too funny. I love that he thinks school is great! Glad your son is feeling that way. I think it is funny when he sighs that he is going to be home for three days :)He's only going four days a week for half days. I can't wait for next years full time, I think he is going to be so happy :)
@jodylee (946)
• United States
25 Sep 11
I know, to be so young and faced with such a tragic thought. He certainly will be shaped by this. Every event in our lives seems to mold us into who we are. I don't think this one will be a forgotten memory. He talks a lot about it so I can see he was affected. He seems to be okay about it, just has a lot of questions... and questions I have a hard time answering as I don't really understand it myself.
