Mom got the story wrong (follow up to school lock down)
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
March 7, 2010 5:55pm CST
Well apparently the story about the girl who joked about having a bomb and ended up getting searched and sent home didn't happen at school, it happened at the airport. Oops.
Well, they do take those things very seriously there.
Dearra's history teacher took a group of 8th graders to Washington DC and one of them said something about a bomb while she was there. Over the teachers protestations that she was only a child (about 14, I'm guessing), they took her away, searched her and called her parents to come take her home. She missed out on the trip entirely over one stupid, ill considered remark.
I don't blame the security folks for following procedure. But I sure would have felt pretty darn awful and helpless if it were my child. At a bare minimum, I would have made a huge fuss to allow to be there when they searched her.
Another thing to discuss with your kids, folks. Don't talk about bombs or guns or crashes while you're at the airport. Yikes...
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@GardenGerty (169585)
• United States
8 Mar 10
I can see where you might have thought it happened at school, because the school lock down was on your mind and she told you this story. I guess the teacher told the students in Dearra's class this story, or was she on the trip? In other countries fourteen year olds and even younger people have carried bombs etc. It is easier to stir up an innocent to think that they are a hero than it is to get an older person to do something like that like.I would not have liked it though.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
The teacher was on the trip and told Dearra's class the story after the lock down.
@cream97 (29085)
• United States
8 Mar 10
I am glad that they followed the procedure in searching and asking questions. If there was actually a bomb, the airplane could have blown up. It is not right to make jokes like these type of things because it can come true and it when it does, it surely is no laughing matter.
I am sorry that Dearra had to witness something as this. This joke seemed to spoil the students excitement for this trip.
I am sorry that Dearra had to witness something as this. This joke seemed to spoil the students excitement for this trip.2 people like this
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
Dearra wasn't there, it was just something her teacher told her.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
16 Mar 10
I am surprised that they are allowed to search her without the Parents presents as she is under Age
Yes, she should not have made the comment but as far as I am concerned the Parents should have been called and no search should have been done till the Parents got there
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Mar 10
I guess you could argue that if there were something on her, it couldn't wait until the parents got there.
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
8 Mar 10
Just shows you never know what to say anymore for fear someone believing you and turns youin, now when i talk about my brownies i wonder who believes me...
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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8 Mar 10
Hi dawnald,
I don't blame the airport but they have to so carful, what does a terroist look like? they can use kids, women and boys, so you can't blame them, as for this child, she should be told of the dnagers of saying these words as our wold today is not safe to mention these words at places like that.
Tamara
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
I don't blame them either, but I feel sorry for the girl even so...
@savypat (20216)
• United States
8 Mar 10
I don't know if you are old enough to remember the phase "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS"
It think it was a old second world war slogan, but it show an idea that needs to revisited today, be careful what you say it could come back to bite you.
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
8 Mar 10
Well, even if it was said out of context and the girl ended up missing out on the Field trip personally I hope in a lot of ways this was a lesson to her and the other kids that you never talk about things like this in an airport. Personally anymore you never know what or who to Trust with weapons even at this age so even if this was just a harmless word they were looking out for their Best interest in this for everyone else as well.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
Yeah I can't blame the airport people, but it must have been pretty frightening. I'm sure the whole class learned a lesson, not just the girl who was searched.
@kaylachan (84908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Mar 10
I still feel sory for the child, but seriously another example that makes me ask, What is the world coming to? So it was right that the child ended up being searched, but it makes people almost afraid to speak, laugh, and joke around. But, people needs to understand where the security are coming from too. I'm just shaking my head at the idiocy of at all.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
It's sad that we live in a world where such things are even considered necessary.
@MysteryGuy (48)
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8 Mar 10
Now you made me wishing I knew what she was talking about D:. Poor girl...:(
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Mar 10
I don't exactly know either, just she used a word that they frown upon at airports, ie bomb.
