Junior College students sent home after bomb threat

Maria J. Munro

Oct 19th 2012, 00:23

EXCUSE ME!
Most of the people commenting find this either funny or rediculous and are only pointing out the mistakes and what should have been done and how fun this may have been for us, well it wasn't! Have any of you seen the looks on the freshmen's faces? Do you know how scared most of us actually were? A bomb threat, this isn't a joke even if at the end of the day nothing was found!!

Karl Farrugia

Oct 19th 2012, 00:05

Thing is that we left only to find out that lectures and tutorials continued as scheduled after 2pm and we werent notified in any way thus some of us missed important lectures

Jay Oatmon

Oct 18th 2012, 23:08

No planning as usual - the assembly point needs to be far enough away to avoid flying glass from an explosion, there should also be emergency monitors appointed to guide students to the assembly point and take roll calls and ensure everyone left the building, this evacuation plan should be practiced once a month - etc.

Nicole Mifsud

Oct 18th 2012, 21:17

Just to make it clear, we WERE NOT sent home.. lectures continued as usual from 2pm onwards

m. borg (slm)

Oct 18th 2012, 17:48

Boasting of localeducation apart education seems to be going down the drain some see it as funny making hoax calls.

How about introducing Health and Safety officers in each and every school not simply to treat such cases but also to increase the level of safety in school. No evacuation plan was followed here which shows how narrow minded authorities are about H&S giving only lip service.

Aldo Busuttil

Oct 18th 2012, 15:32

Evacuation from school - This has also happened when a bomb from the second world war was found at MCAST. A person went around to inform all the classes and students. Again no alarm or evacuation plan! Students have been seen instead going to the assembly point, which does not exit, they went out, others went to take their cars out, others left home etc. Is this the way of an evacuation plan?

Aldo Busuttil

Oct 18th 2012, 15:29

Pity that in such such cases no marshalls were present during the evacuation. This may be seen clearly from the clip placed. Students sitting everywhere, many left home, other in the near-by bars etc etc! Students are not informed about the evacuation proceedure in most schools. I have my doubts on how may fire drills are carried out! The minimum requested by law is twice a year.

josef vella

Oct 18th 2012, 15:01

technology has improved enough, i think, for the culprit to be caught.

D Borg

Oct 18th 2012, 14:21

someone must have forgot the homework...

Michele Xuereb

Oct 18th 2012, 13:51

To my knowledge the students were not sent home. Lessons have since resumed.

Joe Baldacchino

Oct 18th 2012, 13:45

This is really stupid, evacuating the students and leave them in front of the premises... What about evacuating the surroundings? Isn't it safer? or because till now nothing happened we will keep this bad practice going on?

Should they be put at least 100 meters away from the affected area?

j brincat

Oct 18th 2012, 13:34

What a shame.

Why do some stoop so low?

What are they achieving?

Tougher laws are needed.


(jb)

Mark Anthony Fenech

Oct 18th 2012, 13:20

Never happened when I used to attend there :/

Paul Barrett

Oct 18th 2012, 13:17

Great shame that there appears to be no education of school children/students about keeping off roads - they appear to just swarm out of education buildings and expect traffic to stop for them. It does not help when the authorities close off roads at school opening/closing times to encourage them to ignore any pedestrian rules of the road.

Corinne Coleiro

Oct 18th 2012, 13:04

ohhhh please!! 11 years down the line and still getting bomb scares @ JC!! haha this is ridiculous.. minjaf kemm il darba qomt kmieni ghalxejn fi zmieni biex nasal JC u nsib lil kulhadd jistenna barra.. probabli kien ha jsir xi test naqra jahraq -_-

Mark Anthony Caruana

Oct 18th 2012, 13:01

Here we go again....

when i was a student at JC, (2000- 2002) these bomb scares had become so frequent that the administration (rightly or wrongly) had decided to leave students attending the lectures while the bomb disposal suad was searching the building....

as usual i am certain that today's bomb scare is just a hoax...

Aldo Busuttil

Oct 18th 2012, 13:00

The amazing is that the school does not have an evacuation plan and not even an alarm. Only the security on site went around class by class asking the students to go out. Not even an assembly point is found while non of the students were read to ensure that all persons have been evacuated from the school. Amazing!!!!

F. Pisani

Oct 18th 2012, 12:59

I’ve been a JC and this has not been the first time, so it business as usual! I was having my second semester Pure Maths test when a bomb scare had been called, and we carried on with the test non the less the treat. So as if............

Peter Shaw

Oct 18th 2012, 12:51

Din ahbar bomba ghall-istudenti ghax hargu l barra :)

Andrea Sammut

Oct 18th 2012, 12:30

The problem with bomb scares is that they have to be taken so seriously :/

George Calleja

Oct 18th 2012, 12:25

Possibbli dawn il-kodardi hadd ma jsib tafhom? Possibbli se noqghodu sejrin hekk, kwazi darba darbtejn fil-gimgha l-qorti u issa anki postijiet ohra? Min jinqabad ghandu jinghata piena severa ta habs halli jkun ta lezzjoni ghal haddiehor