In this day and age (unfortunately) it is really best to err on the side of caution. I am glad to hear they are being cautious by closing schools while they investigate.
And holy cow @Ballerina016 …is it possible to have that many students in ONE school district (640,000)? We have two grade schools, one MS and one HS. Each class has between 130-150 students in it, so total students 1800-1900 in our entire district!
I too hope it turns out to be nothing, but given the recent attacks, I can totally see why they would shut everything down just in case, credible threat or not.
“Well… I like you, sort of, but let me see if someone better comes along, if I don’t like anyone more, than I will date you”…It DOES seem like that, doesn’t it? So sorry about the deferral, allboyz, especially since the college invited your son to play for them! Hope it works out for him.
A little funny to lighten the mood: I told D again this morning to contact the director of admissions and ask if she should have the recommenders for her honors college application packet just fax everything given that everyone on both sides goes home for break in 3 days. So she gets all “GOSH, Mom, you just told me that last night!” Yes, and I’m reminding you again, my dear. But she fired off an email…that she mistakenly sent to ME instead of him! So I had to point that out and she sheepishly resent it to the right person. GOSH, Mom! Lol.
Post 200! Hoping for good EA results today.
Our district is a little bigger than yours @4kids2graduate but only probably 3000 kids. There are more kids in LA than in our closest metro area.
@ohiovalley16 so sorry if I have caused you unnecessary alarm! I should have spelled it out. I understand that Indiana University have a difference in scholarship application due dates in emails sent to students vs their website. I hope no one is adversely impacted.
@Booajo …Fingers crossed for favorable EA results today!
@GoodGrief16 : Wow, that is a very long time of homeschooling. I have not done homeschooling, but more of keeping-their-minds-occupied-so-I-don’t-go-bonkers type of stuff here. From '99 to now is a long time.
To you.
This district wide closure has brought to light the fact that the emergency notification system is awful! The system was overloaded (and with so many families of course it was). I didn’t receive official notification until after 8am by the school and 9am by the district. My friends received msgs as early as 6:45 and some still haven’t.
I think our school district is the second largest after NY. It has over 900 schools. Now they are not sure if schools will resume tomorrow. Many kids walk to school or take public transportation and did not know that schools will be closed today. So Metro is allowing all students ride for free. Parents post on a school FB that they can pick up kids already at schools and drop they home.
Absolutely awesome.
Apparently NYC received the same threat but the district chose not to close because they believe the threat is not credible.
Sigh. Awful for the kids and families, awful for Muslims who are smeared by this as well, awful for the students who need to take finals. It sounds like these “threats” were sent to several districts, all pretty much the same content.
“New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said he thought Los Angeles officials overreacted by deciding to close the nation’s second-largest school system.
He said a school superintendent received the threatening email Tuesday morning.
Bratton said the person who wrote the note claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that made it clear the person was a prankster.”
No trouble, @Cheeringsection , all is fine.
The IU forum here on CC doesn’t seem to be very active - I saw no relevant posts there and no one has responded to mine - so I called. The very nice woman who answered in the Scholarship Office said their SSA app system “shut down prematurely” on the 14th, rather than the 15th, due to an error. She said they have extended the deadline to tomorrow, Dec 16th, to compensate.
She then offered to check on my D’s status just to be certain, and I joked that I didn’t want to be “one of those parents” but sure, as long as she was offering. There was a brief silent freakout on my end when she said my D’s SSA was showing “initiated” but not “completed,” but she immediately offered to go and check with someone else in the office. Apparently that person’s interface updates more frequently than the screen she sees, and she confirmed that all is well - “completed” for everything that’s due Dec 15th, and we have until Jan 15th for the LOR’s.
That’s more excitement than I was expecting this morning, LOL. But all’s well that ends well.
Praying for all in the LAUSD.
@allboyz Sorry about the deferral. As others have said, hopefully things will work out for your S. It is good that he has other places he is considering.
Lots of aloha to my thread-mates and their kids dealing with the district closure. What a scary and stressful situation. My best friend from junior high is a speech therapist who was working a few blocks away from the San Bernardino shooting. She was barricaded in a classroom with young students for hours with no information other than an active shooter was in the area. It is hard to imagine going through something like that, but in fact, no one is immune.
I stayed home from work today sick so I surprised D by cooking her favorite, apples and cinnamon oatmeal, only to find out last night she made banana oatmeal cookies to share with her Microbiology class during her morning final. I guess if you are going to OD on something, oatmeal is good choice.
So glad you were able to reach someone and get the info you needed @ohiovalley16 !
Woke up to a phone call telling me that our district was open. We are next door to LAUSD. I had no idea what was going on.
That’s horrible to hear about those threats. When I was a freshman on 12/20/12, there was a threat and we had police outside school all day and we had to stay in place for almost 2 hours while they checked out a threat. But all was good. But definitely scary especially since it was only a couple weeks after Sandy Hook.
Ugh, it does sound like it was a hoax according to news reports. I suppose that is better than the alternative, but awful that a single person can cause such a large scale disruption (and fear, especially for students in the midst of finals and young children.) I worked in a rural hospital years ago that received a bomb threat via phone in the middle of the night. We had to evacuate the entire facility, which was no small thing, even for a low population area.
I am in awe of the size of the school district! I believe that approximates our entire state’s population 
Congratulations to all with acceptances & scholarships! So sorry to those with deferrals and denials.
Feeling a bit fragile today. LA is just to the west of us, and San Bernardino is just to the east. My dear friend’s son is a police officer who covers the LAUSD. Praying for our state, for our nation, for our world.
On a more hopeful note, rumor has it that results for one of S’s EA schools will be out today. Having the first acceptance under his belt will be such a relief and cause for celebration. For him, the knowledge that at least one college wants him . For me, the reassurance that our years of homeschooling were not in vain.
And…maybe he’ll be motivated to get the rest of his RD apps in!
Results are out for Yale and Northeastern EA according to the threads. Surprised to find no posts here? S’s roommate and a couple of very close friends applied to Yale - waiting to hear from him as to how they fared. Keeping fingers crossed!