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I can't believe that I've forgotten what my HS Senior Class class did. I'll have to remind myself to ask some of my friends that I graduated with if they remember.
During the '96-'97 school year, we had over 40 bomb threats called in. There were sometimes even 3 in one day. Every time, we would sit outside a few feet away from the school building and just hang out for about an hour until the bomb squad came in and checked everything out. Teachers began to revolve their lesson plans around the threats to make sure that they would be able to teach the lesson outside. As sad as it sounds, we loved them because many of the teachers wouldn't bother to teach during the threats so these bomb threats became our social hour. The school board was close to making us stay a week longer at the end of the school year to make up the time missed because of the threats.
It was rumored that the Senior Class of '97 was behind the pranks but none of the Seniors wanted to verify the rumor since the people making the threats could have done jail time.
If it was a prank, it was probably one of the worst we've had in our school's history. Students, faculty, and the police department started to downplay the bomb threats and not be serious about them. After a while, the bomb squad stopped doing complete checks. Rumors were circulating that someone really did intend to plant a real bomb which is scary because it easily could have been done considering people stopped taking the threats seriously.
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