On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:01:18 +0900, "Brenda Ann Dyer"
wrote:


Liability could be part of it. It could also be the kid has given the
teachers reason to be concerned about him before. We will probably never
know exactly. He was checked out and that appears to be the end of it.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a non-issue.

-=jd=-
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There may be more to it.. but there doesn't have to be. When I was in high
school, back in the early 70's, there were a lot of bomb threats happening
in places all over the country..

Our prinicipal was a moron, and very long winded. He would spend 15 minutes
on the PA each morning droning on and on about some sort of useless drivel
that neither us nor the teachers wanted to hear.

Well, I had an extremely rare moment of inspiration, and drew a crude
political cartoon combining these two issues. In the first panel, the front
of the school was shown, with a speech bubble showing the principal
prattling on. Second panel was much the same (blah blah blah hadn't been
invented yet, so I used some of his actual droning). Third panel showed the
school going up with a big boom. Fourth one showed a PA speaker dangling by
it's wires from a column in the middle of the mess, still droning.. and then
ending up by saying "Oh, yes, and by the way, we've had a bomb threat."

The cartoon was meant to make light of the principal and his lack of
priority and boring nature, but my homeroom teacher didn't think much of it.
She confiscated it, and the next thing I knew, I was talking to FBI agents
from Portland..

And I was a B+ average student, and never caused any sort of trouble.. how
much more 'cautious' must schools be now...




Bull****...

Tracy