This is now the fourth month where they're trying to say my usage is higher than its ever been in my home, double what it was last March. I'm fighting this now, this is getting ridiculous.

I went to Farrell and I live across the street from the school I got woken up by the sirens

Warning students or parents ahead of time would reveal the exact day and time that the drill is occurring… thus making it easier for a bad actor to act since everyone will be hiding behind the teachers desk/in the corner because 40 kids don’t exactly fit behind a desk. In most schools the classroom doors don’t lock, either.

What do you think happens during an active shooter drill in a public school?

We don’t give lunches to kids if they can’t pay- you think we have bunkers to hide in?

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My bills never looked that out of sorts, but now if I log in they've retracted the last 3 months of bills, giving me a $300 credit on my account. They're apparently reinstating corrected bills, but it's been days and they still haven't done that. It's a total mess.

Seems crazy and irresponsible for the school district not to warn the parents or at least put it in the alert that it's a drill.

And what would this putative student shooter learn from an announced drill that they wouldn't already know from online research?

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Drills are certainly not new… but with the news of more school shootings though, I think it changes the context quite a bit for kids.

I just read this morning in an incident at Newark, DE a hoax caller made a threat. The school was put in lockdown and cops didn’t show up for 70mins. They claimed miscommunication… All while parents are trying to get into the school. It’s just a hot mess. Over a decade of preparation and tragedies every week, how are we not getting better at handling this? Watching the video of how they sent in one lone police officer who clearly had no clue what to do… it’s infuriating.

If your kids school doesn't use an app like "remind" you should get in touch with the administration there to have it implemented, my kids school uses it and I can get texts from the teachers and admins instantly, that they can send out in mass to every parent at once vs trying to call each parent individually.

I think Indian Caverns is closed now but you used to be able to visit it and Lincoln Caverns on the same trip since they are not far from each other.

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We were absolutely not told about them in advance. Remember, the Columbine shooting was done by students. Imagine the damage that could be done if a student shooter knew exactly when all the kids would be huddled in the corner behind the teachers desk.

We’ve been practicing intruder & active shooter drills since Columbine. It’s not new.

The real question is- do the police practice responding to school shooters? I went to a high school with over 3,000 students in it. Absolutely massive building with multiple entrances and floors.

I have no faith that if the shooting was in the language pod that the police would know where that is. Football field, sure. Gym? Absolutely. Chemistry lab? Nope.

Right? I was 9 when Columbine happened. Now my kids are in elementary school and it's a whole new level than we had growing up. It used to be disgruntled/bullied high school kids, that was the worry. Now it can be grown adults waltzing into schools to kill innocent elementary aged kids who they've never met.

My son was the same age as the kids who died at Uvalde. We had a brief but heartbreaking conversation about it. 9 year olds aren't supposed to live with that fear but here we are, 2nd generation in a row.

There's a huge difference between a planned drill - which students and parents are told in advance about - and receiving a message that there is a shooter at your school.

How is it any different than the active shooter drills kids have been doing monthly or quarterly since Columbine? What was that- 1998 or 1999?

Do the police practice responding to school shootings? If Uvalde is any indication, I’m gonna go with “no”.

How do you think teenagers feel when they’re listening to a sitting politician go on the news and say “we aren’t going to fix it. Criminals don’t follow laws. My kids are homeschooled.” Like the one from Tennessee did yesterday?

Kids are more likely to die from a gunshot than from anything else these days.

They live with this terror in the back of their mind 24/7.

Give it another 5 years and conservatives will be arguing for school uniforms to consist of tactical gear in your school's colors, and within 10 they will be arguing for children to conceal carry.

My daughter sent me a text message this morning stating she could hear someone yelling in the hall outside of her classroom. Two minutes later I got another text that she could see police officers with guns pulled and some had shields. Another text followed just saying "if anything happens, I love you."

It is an incredibly gut-wrenching feeling to read it in real time, knowing there isn't anything I could do in that moment. I am beyond thankful it was only a hoax and that she will be walking through the door at some point today.

I will say that the emergency response time was excellent. Several police departments were brought in, essentially all hands on deck.

If you're going that route might as well say you believe in jury nullification. Prosecutors hate this one simple trick.

I find it hard to believe that postcards made them change their minds a full 180 degrees. They surely had their reservations(whatever those may have been) to begin with, and the postcards were what ultimately tipped the scales in the state senate.

Hell, the state house refused to vote on it, so even if the Senate had passed it, ratification wasn't going to happen.