Bomb threat at 400 schools

Agreed about that - but if you are a head teacher with over 200 kids between the ages of 4 and 11 to look after are you going to take the risk it is a hoax , or are you going to try and ensure the safety of the kids before investigating ?

How about an education authority with many schools affected ?
 
I would sack the head teacher of any school in the UK that reacted to that Email.
it's pathetic. :thinking:
 
AHILL said:
I would sack the head teacher of any school in the UK that reacted to that Email.
it's pathetic. :thinking:
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And if there was a bomb and it exploded? We live in a dangerous world and people with responsibility cannot pretend it is a nice world.
 
viv1969 said:
Thankfully, you're not in charge.
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How did I know "you" would come up with a derogatory remark :rolleyes:

sending the children home is not a head teachers decision to make.
that duty falls on the Police.:whistle:

seriously, have you read the email?
its a bit like me sending a post to TP threatening to blow up every PC after each reader has read the post. :film::pint::exit:
 
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The police came out and inspected the school and gave the all clear, but many parents were already on there way there, so the school closed early
 
Dave70D said:
I`d hate to be the head teacher saying, Sorry your child got blown up, as I thought it would be pathetic to act.
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:agree:
but as said in my post this morning it was not the head teachers decision to make. they should not have contacted parents until advised to do so.

here's another cliché, imagine every transport authority getting an email threatening every bus, every train, every plane or taxi with 9 million suicide bombers, do you stop the entire country because of a few electrons?
common sense needs to prevail and protocol needs to be followed.
Fake news anyone?
 
Sadly, we live in relatively dangerous times, and even though a threat may not seem to be genuine, the people in charge have to act. The consequences of failing to act and subsequently the threat proves to be real are too terrible to imagine.
 
AHILL said:
:agree:
but as said in my post this morning it was not the head teachers decision to make. they should not have contacted parents until advised to do so.

here's another cliché, imagine every transport authority getting an email threatening every bus, every train, every plane or taxi with 9 million suicide bombers, do you stop the entire country because of a few electrons?
common sense needs to prevail and protocol needs to be followed.
Fake news anyone?
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When it is a bomb threat, Common sense is a MUST so on that I agree with they have to stop and close down to make sure it`s safe.
 
Schools have so may safeguarding procedures, I'm pretty sure this potential risk was taken at the serious level. The fact so many schools acted the same indicates they were following a common policy.

My wife is a school governor, I got her to ask the head what their policies were and if they got the alert, but they didn't. The policy comes from the local education authority and says that the building should
be evacuated immediately and not returned to until the relevant authorities have advised it is safe to do so. Any suspect packages are left where they are and not touched.

In these regards I think contacting the parents was probably the safest thing to do. Where else do you take all the children from the school? The playing fields/playgrounds of most wouldn't be considered far enough away.
 
AHILL said:
common sense needs to prevail and protocol needs to be followed.
Fake news anyone?
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What about if protocol was to evacuate?

And it's clearly not fake news as this happened. I think what you mean is it should have been a non-event
 
AHILL said:
sending the children home is not a head teachers decision to make.
that duty falls on the Police.:whistle:
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Actually, no. The head teacher is in charge and waiting for instructions from the police before responding to a threat would take far too long.
 
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john.margetts said:
Actually, no. The head teacher is in charge and waiting for instructions from the police before responding to a threat would take far too long.
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Exactly.
 
It wasn't derogatory, simply fact. Unless you are in charge!
AHILL said:
How did I know "you" would come up with a derogatory remark :rolleyes:

sending the children home is not a head teachers decision to make.
that duty falls on the Police.:whistle:

seriously, have you read the email?
its a bit like me sending a post to TP threatening to blow up every PC after each reader has read the post. :film::pint::exit:
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