Not as bad as this situation with THIRD GRADERS!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/a ... hx_pnV1_f9Y2puKCHxgSs0NUE

I love it, just another day of fun & frolics.

SCHOOL LOCKDOWN
Hunt for student who flashed gun

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Snyder High School in Jersey City was put on lockdown yesterday after a 17-year-old student was spotted holding a gun on the second floor, police said yesterday.

The incident took place just after 1 p.m. when the roughly 1,400 students at the Bergen Avenue school were filing back into the building after what had been the third false fire alarm of the day, officials said.

Police are now searching for the student and an arrest warrant for unlawful possession of a weapon in an educational institution has been issued, city spokesman Stan H. Eason said. There is no indication shots were fired, Eason said. Since he is a minor, police did not identify the student.

According to several students, the 17-year-old pulled the gun after he got into a beef with some other students in a hallway. "I went running," said one shaken sophomore, who said she saw the confrontation unfold. "I just ran into the nearest classroom."

Students and staff started yelling "Code C," other students said - a signal to run to the nearest classroom, close the door, and turn off the lights. Students inside the building complied with the lockdown, officials said, but students who hadn't gotten inside decided to remain out of the building.

Cops stationed at the school immediately searched the building for the gun-toting student and the weapon, but came up empty, Eason said.

Noel Phillips, an 11th-grader, said she was walking in the second floor hallway when she saw a "couple of boys" hit the 17-year-old. That's when the 17-year-old pulled a gun out from his waist, cocked it, but didn't fire, Noel said.

Noel, who ran into a classroom once she saw the gun, said she knows the 17-year-old as a "cool person."

"If you had seen him you wouldn't have thought he'd have a gun," she said.

School officials had a different version of events from the police and students.

According to the Jersey City Public Schools spokesman Gerard Crisonino, the 17-year-old student was spotted by a teacher with something the teacher believed to be a gun outside the school.

"If indeed there was a gun, to our knowledge it was never in the school," Crisonino said.

Several students said they have to walk through metal detectors when they enter the building in the morning, but don't have to follow that procedure when they return from lunch.

Crisonino insisted students always walk through the metal detectors.