Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools. The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.
Officials closed all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses Tuesday morning after receiving a “credible threat” of violence involving backpacks and packages left at campuses.
Authorities said they plan a search operation of all of the LAUSD’s more than 900 schools.
“I think it’s important to take this precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past,” LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.
Fearing the safety of schools and students, Cortines said he couldn’t take a chance, so he asked police to search all campuses, adult school and early education centers before reopening Wednesday.
Officials said the threat came in electronic form and was made to numerous but unspecified campuses. As a result, they made the decision to close them all for the day.
The Los Angeles Police Department and FBI were assisting with the threat investigation, said Los Angeles School Police Chief Steve Zipperman.
“The threat is still being analyzed,” he said. “We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be sure our campuses are safe.”
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BAHAHAHA!!!!
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IKR?? 😀
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Insert obscure reference to 70’s sitcom here.
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Obviously a “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” fan.
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Wonder Women,
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Just kidding. It was ‘Little House on the Prairie’ where Laura Ingalls in the later series was a school teacher and the student Epstein to turn in forged excuse notes.
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I thought it was a reference to Welcome Back Kotter and Epstein’s note business 😀
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In next year’s OED, this anecdote will be referenced under “Obscure”.
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https://twitter.com/NolteNC/status/676785822339829760
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Perfect !
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Funny thing.
The same boy I mentioned on the general discussion thread who loves parmesan cheese actually did have to walk uphill to get to his school bus and uphill to get home when the bus dropped him off.
They lived on a pretty steep hill with about 12 homes on it, there was a street that ran into the hill right in the middle of the hill. There was also a thick wooded area that served as an island in the middle of the hill street.
So the kid had to walk up and down the hill to get to the bus and then up and down the hill to get home.
His mom always told him that he would thank her when he has kids of his own 🙂
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In Covert, MI, we GOT to walk uphill back to the house, when an hour passed and no bus arrived, because it was too snowy. That was rare as hen’s teeth. The school Principal and the head of the bus garage made the decision, and they were both insane.
You haven’t lived until you’ve been a kid on the back of a spinning-into-a-country-ditch school bus in a mid-80s blizzard. That’s where both the centrifugal forces are strongest, and where the emergency exit is. Three times I experienced that. Good times.
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As the LA School District is run/controlled by unredeemable marxists, with a direct pipeline to the WH (just like the Miami-Dade school district), this “closure” is a ham fisted attempt to push the WH meme of gun confiscation/ making Lists and checking ’em twice, exploiting the “but it’s for the children!” canard. Again.
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Ytz4mee, you hammered that nail!!! In addition, consider this yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of Mosullums thug terrorists taking that school over in Russia. Over 300-500 were killed.
Can’t look for a source now, think I’m close though.
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Beslan?
https://www.rt.com/news/183964-beslan-school-hostage-crisis/
Beslan was horrific. It still turns my stomach to think about it.
I’ve had a piece in the hopper for a bit based on some lecture notes given by someone with expertise in this area – cleaned it up, compressed, and tried to de-militarize it and make it more user-friendly. Ironic that several examples of 4th Gen Warfare brought home would happen today (LA Schools, the Sharia Judge being sworn in in NYC)
“The Iceberg Doctrine: 4th Gen Warfare Brought Home”
https://t.co/A7Ce4nw9qS
I’m doing what I can to try and get people to wake up and not just start drawing lines in the sand and but to start pushing back, but it feels Sisyphean. 😦
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Just sent that out on twitter, ytz.
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TY Mary, you are a true Twitter Warrior! So much energy!
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So much addiction!
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I’m going to dig out some old articles/notes on this subject. Very interesting comment about the school property tax. Thank you ytz4mee.
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I’d be very interested! I’ve had the chance to hear Col Hammes speak, but not Lind.
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Yes. This is the truth of the matter. Is it a stretch to consider that the “threat” may in the end be found to have been called in by a fanatic communist (…err, I mean Democratic operative/shill??). It would fit the full application of Rahm Emmanuel’s “never let a crisis go to waste”, taken to the logical conclusion.
I am sure that this event scared the living daylights out of many. That is an awful byproduct of this sort of thing.
If no perp or plausible explanation is provided, understand this fraud for what it is. I note that the NYC school district allegedly received the same “threat”, investigated it, and found it to be a hoax. The day went on as scheduled in NYC – a city that has actually been attacked at least twice.
I would feel compassion for Los Angelenos, but they have the government they voted for. Now, they are all meat puppets for some sadistic, progressive lever pullers.
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Col. (R) Ken, The school tax portion of your propert tax bill is inexorable. It grows, year on year until taxes are so onerous, you have to move.
It is one of the methods that TPTB use to prevent generations from establishing multi generational outposts.
The only time in the past 20 or so years that I ever saw it go DOWN was one year in a county best described as lower Alabama, where my brave bride linked up with me upon me importing her stateside. Put the kids in Catholic school to get out of public school, the place was far poorer in resources but was much better at being a school. It was a joyous place.
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The Beslan massacre… so much happened in that time. I recall that Chechen separatists were filling up apartment blocks with H.E., then blowing the building in place. Horriffic. There was the East-West theater siege as well, where the Russians used some sedative gasses.
A side note on Russian negotiating philosophy… if you are a hostage, they already consider you to be dead. It makes planning simpler and does not encourage hostage taking.
There was an event that proves the point. Back in the day, 4 Soviet embassy types in Bierut were grabbed. 1 was killed in the snatch operation. The Soviets did not ask for them back… Instead, they started grabbing relatives of likely suspects. They sent the abductees back to their homes, one piece at a time. The Soviets got their people back. As I understand it, it came close to the KGB going on a shooting rampage of all likely participants and their families. that credible threat ended the taking of Soviet hostages. After that, they started grabbing Americans. Now, we pander to them.. bow and scrape. Not only our enemies have contempt for that weak sauce.
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