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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on July 09, 2009, 10:37:23 am ---
Oh, I forgot to report back. Thanks everybody for your kind words.
He enjoyed the zoo very much, and he didn't miss the "zoo-school", a special educational program by the zoo staff for kids at various ages. He even got to pet a baby Fennek and was totally over the moon about it! :)
He was glowing when he came home and I felt all right again.
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That is great to hear!! Now, you might want to think about getting yourself a big bulletin board like the one you might have recalled seeing in our house. Our refrigerator, even though it's a Sub-Zero, is not big enuff for all the school reminders, etc. that need to go there!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ROUXB & MONIKA ON REACHING THE BIG 2000!!
southendmd:
Congrats to Monika on 2,000 Jakelicious posts!
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 09, 2009, 11:20:14 am ---That is great to hear!! Now, you might want to think about getting yourself a big bulletin board like the one you might have recalled seeing in our house. Our refrigerator, even though it's a Sub-Zero, is not big enuff for all the school reminders, etc. that need to go there!!
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We do have one of those big calendars with different columns for every family member, but I don't use it (hubby does). I go with my alamac. But it's gone for over a week now. It must be in the house somewhere, but I can't find it :o. It IS a GBOAUS, I really need it.
Penthesilea:
OMG :o
The school of my oldest daughter had a bomb threat yesterday - and she didn't know anything about it and stayed in school. To take the suspense out: it was only a monkeyshine (?), there was no bomb.
They had a Project Week the last week and yesterday evening they had a big festivity where they presented their projects. At 6:10pm the principal made an emergency call to the police, and shortly before 6:30pm they began to evacuate the school. The principal decided not to do an announcement via the loudspeaker-system, but to rely on mouth-to-mouth information, in order to avoid a panic (the school was jam-packed with almost 2000 people because of the festivity).
My daughter left the school shortly after seven, only because she had a ride with her aunt (the festivity was planned to last until 9pm). Her group had noticed that barely anybody was coming to see their project anymore, but didn't know why. Then she and her aunt wondered about the many people and police cars in front of the school. But only this morning we learned what happened from the newspaper.
While I think it was a good idea to start the evacuation by word of mouth, I think the principal should have made an announcement via the loudspeaker system once the school was emptied for the greatest part. Between the emergency call to the police and my daughter leaving (and the others from her group still stayed in school) one hour had gone by and there were still kids in school who had no idea what happened.
And what did they write in the newspaper? They praised how quickly and effectively the evacuation had taken place! Hello? I don't think so!
I can't wait to hear what she's going to report when she'll come home today.
CellarDweller:
Geeez Chrissi!
That's very scary, and actually very stupid of the principal to rely on "word of mouth". It obviously didn't work.
My own opinion, your daughter and yourself should make a statement to the press about it. What happened should be public knowledge, so it doesn't happen again.
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