Comments on: School Officials: No Credibility To Threat Against Tate High School

By: Nichole

Nichole — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:50:21 +0000

What’s done is neither or nor there. My Child does attend Tate, and I want to know what the school’s active shooter policy is? I asked her yesterday afternoon, if Tate had one, and she said, “not that I know of”.
If military and local law enforcement go through these drills. Wouldn’t it be imperative to have a plan for the students?
I did not pick up my child yesterday. Why, because if there had been an active shooter, I would have potentially added additional danger to the situation; by getting in the way of LEO or First Responders should they have been needed. Mass hysteria doesn’t keep your kids safe.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:39:06 +0000

All the parents who say they will keep there kids home ever time there is a threat. You need to home school your kids and let them live in a bubble there enter life. Now all these kids know that if there is a rumor about any kind of trouble they can get a day off. There will be stuff every week. Your child has a much better chance of dying in a car accident than a school shooting, but I bet you let them ride in a car. Use some common sense people

By: C Diggs

C Diggs — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 11:36:59 +0000

I’m a practical parent. My daughter does not go to Tate however if she did she would have been in school yesterday but not for anything that Thomas or people at the school district said. They, in my opinion, handled this very badly. I had been one of those parents involved in the discussion online about the text messages that were blamed by other media sources for causing the panic. We did not cause the panic we were actually discussing the panic already being caused by students receiving the text messages and discussing what to do about it. We found it had been reported to authorities and they were investigating. We found that if our student was one who received a text message that to be safe we should report it as it might help the investigation (we were not trying to overload the authorities but just give them as much information as we had that could help). We also were able because we knew about it early to discuss with our children the situation and reassure them that everything would be fine. My daughter is not at Tate but it opened a discussion with her as well because I was involved with the group talking about it. We discussed how she should not panic about things like this. We discussed how she should tell someone and talk about it to me or others she knows will not panic if she is afraid. We also talked about how once they determined it was not credible that she should forget about it and go on about her day as if it never happened if she could. Bad things happen every day. We cannot live in fear and let them destroy what we normally do in our lives. School officials should have been upfront and honest about this. They knew about this at 10pm. The first thing that should have happened in the morning is every news outlet should have been informed there was an incident and that it was not credible and to send your kids to school. If they were upset they received a text then have counseling or something available to discuss their fears and show them how to live with them rather than avoid them. Also a phone message should have been sent to Tate students and parents BEFORE school started explaining the situation and telling them it was safe rather than some people hearing rumors of rumors of rumors. Simple honesty and straightforwardness could have eliminated long lines at school and small class sizes.

By: Brandy

Brandy — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:12:34 +0000

My child stayed home and will stay home any time I am warned of anything like this. Better safe than sorry is correct! If anything had happened any parent that had sent their child to school would not be able to go back and correct that would they?? Malcolm Thomas telling me that his granddaughter attends and would be there doesn’t make me feel any better either!

By: S P

S P — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:11:28 +0000

I am frustrated by this whole event…in light of the many other school shootings around the country, people have been told to “Say something if you hear or see something”. Isn’t that what happened? Parents reaching out over social media to see if anyone else had heard anything about shooters…and yet I feel like some think it was wrong. When I went to check my son out, because I am a “better safe than sorry” parent, I had not heard that there “was no credible threat”. And what exactly does that mean anyway? I do not think those that chose not to send their children to school or check them out were overreacting. If only one child or teacher were to have been harmed, that is too many. I will act in the same manner if there is any other incident!

By: Zela McWhorter-Jackdon

Zela McWhorter-Jackdon — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 03:37:49 +0000

I am a graduate of Tate, although it was many years ago. During my years there the worst thing that ever happened was that someone threw a couple cherry bombs in the toilet and it caused a leak. Times have changed much and social media is such an important part of our society that any slight misspoken word suddenly becomes an issue. There is a lot to be said about “the good old days” when shotguns in a truck rack and pocketknives were the norm.

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 01:41:23 +0000

@ Charlene:

The article states: “There was just no credibility to this thing.” And, Mr. Thomas also

“added that there would be an extra law enforcement presence at the campus today out of an abundance of caution.”

If you read the entire article it states no credibility and adds that above as a reason for law enforcement’s presence at the school.

I do agree that our children’s lives are precious, but I also think common sense should prevail in a situation like this. However, it’s a parent’s call whether to check them out or leave them there. I hope the parents that checked them out had them do the school work they were missing!

By: Tatedad

Tatedad — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 01:26:37 +0000

We sent our daughter to school today as Mr. Thomas suggested, but apparently it was a waste of time as all my child did was watch movies and talk with friends.

It was deemed a hoax and the teachers were required to stay. Why didn’t teachers take advantage of the smaller class sizes and at least review material from the past few weeks with the students who stayed in school?

By: Darlene

Darlene — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:16:04 +0000

If there was no creditibility to the threat, why was there so many cops at the school today?

Any child’s life is not worth it!!! Mine will not be in school!!

By: john

john — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:27:57 +0000

Boy has schools changed, These things never happened when I went to school, We even went to school with guns in the gun rack LOADED of course , and every one had a pocket knife SOMETIMES TWO OR THREE OF THEM, and knowone ever got shot or stabbed, just the occasional fist fight over some girl, that’s it!!!