service learning

This week at service learning something scary happend. Everett High School is across the street from Cavanaugh Elementary and one of the high schoolers made a death threat and it was supposed to happend on Cavanaugh's playground. The announcement came over the PA that there was a code red. I was amazed at how the children didn't even pick up on the words "code red" meant anything bad. Mrs. Eby took me outside the classroom and told me what was going on and the procedure to follow. We closed all the window shades and moved to the center of the room and read aloud as a group. After about an hour the situation was diffused and everything went back to normal. I guess this just startled me a little because it showed me how real school violence was. Although nothing happend, the threat was there and real and it just opened up my naive eyes once again.