Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

PurplePigeon96 t1_je9f82b wrote

It broke me yesterday. Because the initial report said there were dead kids and very specific. It was multiple schools near Pittsburgh. When I read the news before we know it is a hoax I completely lost it at work. I cried hysterically and couldn't stop. I never cry in public. But I was terrified. My son was texting me that he was ok and then I found out it was a hoax but my nerves were done. I was still trying to calm down. Before anyone makes fun of me....I am on tons of meds, I go to therapy but this shit is breaking families. It is causing trauma for our kids collectively. I read about little kids being so scared they didn't sleep last night. There's going to be a whole generation fucked up from this shit.

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Yen-sama t1_je95usn wrote

We've had incidents of kids in my school district making bomb and shooting threats as a prank just to get out of going to school, so I'm not so sure this is it.

Besides which, this is a horrible way to protest. With how common school shootings are, this is only going to distress students, and the teachers that don't get paid enough to deal with this. Protest in a way that doesn't traumatize innocent people.

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