A police SWAT team responded to the north campus of Lyons Township High School in La Grange after an instructor reported — mistakenly — she had possibly heard gunfire.
Police from La Grange and nearby suburbs evacuated the high school as a precaution. But in the end, the response was a practice drill for authorities.
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“There were no reports of holes in any buildings, no injuries, no smell, no odors that would be consistent with gunshots,” La Grange Police Chief Michael Holub said.
The system truly has engrained the fear of God in to students and teachers across the nation. Someone drops a text book on the floor (only an assumption not what really happened) and a SWAT team clears the school out?!
I understand being on the cautious side of things to keep the kids safe, but I don't know, it seems to me like schools around the country are going a bit far in all of the suspensions and expulsions over gun toys and shirts. Then we have this paranoid fear that any loud noise may be a gun shot.
Dear God was I lucky when I was in high school that brining a cap gun in to school and shooting it in the cafeteria was just a silly prank that no one even thought about two seconds after it happened. No cops, no SWAT, no suspension, everyone realized it was a toy and no one freaked out.
Oh how things have changed in a mere decade.
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