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You are very welcome. Other than the bare facts of who got shot, where, when, how, we in the general public know very, very little about this string of shootings. The authorities are being remarkably tight-lipped in spite of the fact that, early on, Chief Moose seemed to hold a press conference whenever anyone sneezed. And despite wall-to-wall coverage and wild speculation on TV among the pseudo-experts who are yammering on and on, the media's reporting seems to be unusually thin on facts. This is either because many of them live in the DC metro area and they are as scared as everyone else, so they aren't as open to the report-a-leak-a-day game as usual, or because there simply haven't been any leaks since the tarot card. Either way, we FReepers should at least try not to go off half cocked like this.

Well, I've stayed up with this whole thread, as I did last nights. I can NOT believe how adults can "eat their own" as has happened both nights.

None of us KNOW FOR SURE what is going on. I think we can all agree???????????? that we don't necessarily WANT everything to be out there so the bad guys know what we know. Yeah, there's room for improvement, but this terror on our soil IS new to us.

I've worked in schools, private and public. I'm tellin' ya, this is either the districts deciding, along with the police, that they're ALL going to regroup and come up with a contingency plan for the worst, OR, there's something much bigger that we don't know about.

I'm leaning towards the bigger thing.

You can NOT reach the district office on the weekends. And, let's say hundreds of parents called.....they do NOT have to close them down. The parents don't have to send their children in. And I'll betcha, that given the circumstances, those children who don't go won't be penalized.

WHY ARE WE FIGHTING EACH OTHER, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN? Why must it be civil rights, or homeschooling, or whatever. WHY AREN'T WE CONCENTRATING ON THE TOPIC AT HAND????????????????????

Sheesh.