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Yet another gun threat against Cambridge middle schools

For the fourth time in a month - and the third time this week - Cambridge schools are on high alert. Cambridge Public Schools posted this morning:

Early Friday morning, the Cambridge Police Department notified the Cambridge Public Schools of another anonymous email threat for Friday, December 4, 2015. This is another threat of gun violence and it is directed at “cambridge mass middle schools.” Once again we are taking the threat seriously, proceeding with the utmost caution, and informing the public.

Police swept schools this morning and had officers stationed in the schools throughout the day. Students were only allowed to enter through the main doors. This is the same procedure officials followed after yesterday's threat - and the one last month.

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theyll do anything to get out of school

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Actually, it's the third time this week. Bomb threat Tuesday, gun threats Thursday and Friday. It's been a rough week for those of us tasked with explaining this to our little kids (or, in my case, trying to keep them insulated from the discussion altogether).

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Post updated. And, yeesh, yeah, that's getting to be a bit much.

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there was a time when the school was getting bomb threats every week. It was some fourteen-year-old looking for laughs, of course; and I suspect that's what this is.

I know the cops have to take this seriously, but some kid is going to be in deep shit when they catch him. I don't think they'll be as tolerant as they were back then.

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When I was in high school, I loved to run the switchboard. One day when I answered an incoming call, the caller said there was a bomb in the school. I immediately told Sister Francis, who was the nun in charge of the school office. She sighed and said, "Oh Elmer, if we paid any attention to those calls, they'd be closing the school every day!"

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When someone leaves an actual bomb in a school but then promptly calls the school to let then know?

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