Posted in Hawkins County on Oct 3rd, 2008
Mere days after your bomb threat (while there’s a serious accident in front of your school and helicopters, fire engines and police are zipping all around) you might want to lay off the fireworks.
I realize it’s Homecoming, but large booming sounds combined with sirens make the locals nervous.
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Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 1st, 2008
Earlier this morning, Cherokee High School received a bomb threat via “writing on the wall.” As per their safety plan, they evacuated the school until the grounds could be searched. When I stopped by there this morning, I snapped a photo of highly-trained bomb sniffing bovines at work while the evacuated students wait in [...]
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Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 1st, 2008
I noticed a ruckus a brewing at the local high school this morning. It’s just been confirmed that the ruckus is the result of a bomb threat. Students have been moved to the football field: and police are on the scene. (I might eat these words if pieces of brick hit the [...]
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Posted in Hawkins County on Jul 29th, 2008
Today, the Tennessee Department of Education released the NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Results.
According to the report, the Hawkins County system and most of its schools are in good standing. However, two schools within the system have been identified as “High Priority” (which means the school has missed one or more of the [...]
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