Guns at Schools?
My oldest two children, age 11 and 13, attend school at Cunningham Intermediate School in Beloit, Wisconsin. We live less than three blocks away from the school, so obviously, they walk to and from school. Unless there is an activity that I am told about beforehand, they are always home around 3:55 pm after being dismissed at 3:43. At 4:10 today, I started calling their cell phones because they weren't home yet. I called the school and received no answer. With my 3 year old napping, I wasn't able to leave the house to check on them. I sat around the house constantly calling them. Finally at 4:27, my daughter answered her phone. Her and her brother were almost home, but they had some bad news. They were not dismissed on time because of a lockdown at their school. A former student, an 8th grader, set foot on school grounds near the end of the day and showed a gun to students that were outside for gym class. The school went in to a hard lockdown at 3:41 pm, just mi