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.”
This is nothing more that political correctness run amok.
Political correctness has an etiology from 100 years ago in Germany with Maxist totalitarian ideologies. It was originally called Critical Theory and was introduced to the US in the 1930’s and then passed on to the anti-war, Make Love, Not War hippie-dippie generation, who have grown up and running the institutions of society, i.e. the media, the education system and the government.
The named was morphed into Political Correctness so as not to associate it’s use with Marxism. But it uses the same Marxist techniques to squash any opposition or dissent by shaming and shutting down discourse to the leftist ideology in society. It is nothing more than cultural totalitarianism.
Instead of accepting it, the right in this country need to push back against the left’s insistence that we believe what they do or they will destroy us. Time for the right to play the same game back in their faces. If we don’t, we’re going to be raising a bunch of Obama clone scaredy cats. Afraid of their own shadows.
Meanwhile, Homeschoolers everywhere had their usual, highly productive day.
That is like the immediate reason that there can never be any accommodation between the Israelis and the "Palestinians." The Palestinian kids for several generations have been educated to certain beliefs and habits that cannot be broken. They cannot accommodate. They have not the mental tools to actually reason. For that situation to improve Israel or some major Western nation would have take iron control of all the schools in the ME and teach real academic subjects, especially History as things really happened.
Education in the USA and in Gaza is very similar. There is no real content, just attitudes, mainly fear and hate.
That is a correct statement. That is how teachers and staff are trained thus that is how they are supposed to act.
No. It would give them a glorious opportunity to be Heroic and Save the Children and further instill in the children fear of guns and the military. The teachers feel elated and their lives justified.
I was recruited into the Navy by a first class petty officer who came to the high school in uniform, the old uniform, thirteen button Navy blue bell bottoms, white “Dixie cup” hat etc. He was a well built fellow and his blue jumper with the white stripe collar stretched skin tight over his muscles, kind of a beefy version of the Cracker Jack icon. I reckon the sight of such a creature on a school ground now would bring out a whole army of police.
I don’t have any old uniforms but a suit that I had got made on Okinawa in 1969 shrank over the next 10 years in my closet. Then age made the threads relax and it fits again.
precisely!
Connecticut should be sawed off and towed to the west coast where it should be tied up to California and together the two should be towed out and sunk in the Pacific. Then tow Massachusetts out into the Atlantic.
I don’t have my original issue Navy jumper but I can imagine how small it would be. It was a size forty and now I need a size fifty. I weigh eighty six pounds more than when I signed up fifty two years ago. The amazing thing is that I am not actually fat now. I was a six four beanpole when I joined. People have commented on my forearms in recent years because when I move my fingers they can see the muscles, tendons and even veins move in my forearms, my forearms are an inch bigger in diameter now than my upper arms were when I joined the Navy.
the tense is wrong. Be brave.....
You are correct...
I live in red-purple NC...the urban areas are bluer every year with women afraid of everything and squishy pansied men only to eager to whine with them.
But the counties are not quite so bad. Certainly, an event like the one portrayed would not happen in the vast majority of the state.
But I smell it coming even there...
Wasn’t there a radio personality who said if he saw someone’s gun, concealed, he would start screaming, “GUN GUN GUN!!!” and let whatever happens, happens?
Seems there is an anti US military ass hole teaching these kids, determined to get everything American out of the schools.
F them.
“They have not the mental tools to actually reason.”
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Absolutely, they imagine themselves to be reasoning when all they are doing is rationalizing and they are not even good at that. Even in the past only a minority were capable of actual logic and that minority is smaller and smaller with every year. Now we have reached the point that our so-called secretary of state refers to the ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA (or Iraq and the Levant) as “This enemy of Islam”. That’s right, according to John Kerry Islam is its own worst enemy. Kerry is a fine example of what passes for sophistication in this era.
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Agreed. Back when I went to high school and college, we had teachers that taught (some). Have you seen the Common Bore math curriculum? I am a computer developer by trade, and as intelligent as I am, I had a hard time following how they did simple addition and subtraction. They took a simple problem and made it insanely complicated. I feel this was on purpose, the end goal being the removal of America as a technology leader.
Me too.
Perhaps I should lay off the porn.
Just so.
no...”Educators”
I had a more jolting experience in my own school days. My primary school to 4th grade was a Calvert System private school for Americans in Istanbul in the early 50s. Back in America in public school, the system partially caught up to that finally sometime in high school and I go more history in Istanbul than I got in school in the USA through 12th grade. I also got extensive Geography and French and my arithmetic carried my right up to Algebra before PS taught me anything new.
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