New backpacks were lined up by the door. Stacks of notebook paper and school supplies on the shelf. Bulletin board already filling up with bus schedules, school lunch menu cut from the newspaper, football schedule.
The school supply lists for each grade are given to the local Wal-Mart as early as July, and by this week the store shelves were getting bare.
After a lazy summer off, the kids were quick to sign up for extracurricular activities - band, cross country track, soccer, football, cheer leading. You know what that means for mom - lots of chauffeuring and bleacher time.
Contrary to the usual news in our quiet little town, on the first day of school this past Monday there was a bomb threat at the high school, called in at 8 a.m. Nothing turned up, and all the poor high school students got the day off - does this sound suspicious to anyone?
But unlike the probable prank at the high school, what happened yesterday was no joke. At the elementary school, an early arriving custodian was attacked at knifepoint and left injured inside the school - she was discovered when other workers started to arrive. She is at the local hospital, and is going to be all right. The local authorities handled the situation admirably, rerouting all the busses from the elementary to the middle school and locking down all the schools in the county. Unfortunately, the attacker is still at large. Schools are closed today.
Our little town in the news (and on the Atlanta TV news) twice in one week, not a good start for this school year.
was it just 2 weeks ago we were at the beach, no worries...
