It is a horrible idea to think of school children as front line warriors. Yet due to feckless practices of the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton regime is that is exactly where they are, on the front lines. The Los Angeles Unified School District just gift wrapped and handed Islamic jihadists* an early Christmas Present, via Patterico’s Pontifications [1]:
As Supt. Ramon Cortines noted, the district receives threats all the time. But with the San Bernardino shootings still a vivid memory, and with a somewhat more detailed threat in hand, district officials believed they had little choice but to close the schools. Had anything happened to a student or teacher, the horror would have been unspeakable, a wound from which it would be hard to recover. It’s easy to understand why the district erred on the side of safety.
The costs of doing this are heavy, though. The already cash-strapped district will probably lose millions of dollars in state aid as a consequence of closing. Thousands upon thousands of parents were forced to change their work plans for the day; chances are that many of those will not be paid, and that’s a sacrifice that L.A. Unified families can ill afford. Meanwhile, other cities worry that the district has just shown malefactors around the world how to inflict a major economic blow with a few emails
Absolute safety is absolutely impossible. The LAUSD just showed malefactors of evil how to shut down an major economy. The fecklessness will be rewarded. Expect more of the same.
The LAUSD was not the only option, reax from Patterico:
WHAT CHOICE DID THEY HAVE?
Gee, editors. You could do what New York City did, and decide it’s a hoax. People can debate whether the right choice was made. I don’t think it was. But it is ridiculous to act as if WE HAVE NO CHOICE because think of the children!
The choice is to adopt the Flight Ninety Three Rule.
[*] It matters not who perpetrated the hoax, It very much matters the message we send. The forces of evil are observing.