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Question: What should a student do if there is a bomb threat in school?

Answer: If you know of a threat against a school, immediately tell your teacher or principal. Teachers and Principals usually receive special training on how to handle threats and they should know how to handle the situation.

School threats and disruption of school are serious crimes in Arizona. Learn more here...

Also, see these related Speak Up Questions:

Violence #23 - What is a threat? What is a false accusation and what are the consequences of doing it?

Violence #2 - What are a child's rights when they knew about a bomb threat but did not participate in it?

School #30 - CAN YOU TELL A TEACHER THAT YOU WANT TO BURN DOWN THE SCHOOL AND IF IT HAPPENS DO YOU GET CONVICTED OF THE CRIME?

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On 05/15/02
Ashley from OH said:
Iam now as senior at EHS in Ohio. Every year our schools had about 4 bomb threats at christmas. Everyone thats been there for the past 4 years knows that there's going to be one. Our evacuation plan 2 years ago was to walk outside the school! Our school is located between 4 streets, besides if there was a bomb standing across the street wouldn't help at all. The new evaction plan over the last year was to go to "bomb shelters" these 2 churchs on the way. However we got yelled at because we finally got sick and tired after the first two bomb threats we left for DQ. I think its radiculas how stu
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