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xsmommy I admire your courage and your stand for doing what is best for your children in not allowing fear to be spread to them if at all possible. They do pick up the unspoken, not to mention the spoken attitudes of the adults around them. I pray that if such an incident were to become a problem in my area, that I would have the courage to do as you do in sending the children to school. It makes no sense to keep them home when there is no telling how long it will take to catch this guy. I understand the fear and the caution of the parents who want their children home, for I would feel the same way. But, my heart's desire is not to act on that feeling. I totally believe in being cautious and using wisdom, but I learned a long time ago not to make decisions based on fear, but rather on principle and conviction.

I heard this afternoon that the school boards would be announcing around 4:30PM whether classes would be held tomorrow or not. I missed the announcement and afterwards none of the cable news stations seemed to be carrying that information. Do you know what the decision was? Is school going to be in session tomorrow down there? The ONLY report I saw (on the news ticker at the bottom of the screen) was that a college a few miles from the Ponderosa cancelled all their classes tomorrow "on the advice of the police." What gives? Do you think this guy has said he's decided to target schools now? (I'm not expecting you have the answer to that last question...just stream of conciousness typing!)