TGIO - Thursday Bombs R Us

So I've had a Mega Packed 72 hours and plan to do completely NOTHING today to make up for it.

It all started when during the last class of the day, my ELD 1 class, an announcement came over that we had a lock down drill. My students dutifully closed the windows and blinds and I locked the door. I had to keep them from peeking out the slats in the blinds at the army of police and fire that were arriving.

In case of a lockdown, teachers are instructed to check their email, as they won't make announcements... in case the emergency is due to a gunman in the school. I get an email that says someone turned in a red backpack to the bookroom with some strange box with wires attached to it. The bookroom, in case your wondering is directly downstairs and over one from my classroom. Peachy.

The email also said that the 100 building had already been evacuated... 20 to thirty minutes before. So I sent an email back asking where we were supposed to be. About ten minutes later I get an angry phone call. "Where are you, you were supposed to be in the auditorium!"

Don't ask me how I'm supposed to be somewhere when no one told me where to go.

"Wait for your administrator to come escort you out."

I tell the students to pack up their stuff as we're leaving. They're confused, but it's a chance not to do their work... so they pack up and head off down the hall when Ms. Broadway comes to get us.

So we got to leave school 20 minutes early and I had to walk the long way around home... and I didn't get to make the copies I planned to make after school.

The bomb turned out to be a speaker with electrical tape and wire sticking out of it. I don't know what bothers me more... that they forgot to evacuate me, or they blamed me for not knowing about it. sigh.