Friday the 13th

Well, today is Friday the 13th and it turned out to be an interesting day at school....Everything started out normal, but then at 11:00, we had announcement made that we were on lock down. I had a 5th grade class at that time, so we followed the procedure that we knew to do. After the students had been hiding under their desk for an hour, we were told to evacuate the building. So I walked my (hungry students because they had missed lunch) to the playground. We waited for everyone to come out of the school and then we loaded all the students on the bus and we headed to the Williston First Baptist church. We waited there for parents to come pick their students up. There had been a bomb threat made at the high school and middle school. So those schools had been evacuated before us, but they felt the need to get us out as well.  The kids did great following orders, however some were scared and crying with all that was going on. It was 1:00 by the time we made it to the gym and starting dismissing students. By 2:00 all but a handful of students were left from all three schools. We then got on a bus and came back to school and were dismissed to go home. I don't know anything more than what I have written here as to what all went on. We teachers just got our keys and cars and left. Students left bookbags, lunchboxes, etc. at school. Some were upset about leaving their things, but they will be there on Monday. I'm just glad it's Friday and the kids and us have 2 days to calm down after all this excitement. Just goes to show, you never know how your day is going to go once you leave your house in the morning. Thankfully everyone was safe.