My Teen Reported a Security Threat at School And This Is What I Learned

When my phone buzzed at 930 pm and I saw my friend’s name on the screen, I knew something was amiss. This wasn’t a friend who called during Grey’s Anatomy without good reason.

And I was right.

With a panicked voice, my friend asked me if I’d spoken to my daughter, if she’d told me anything unusual about her school day and I shook my head as she spoke. Without giving me too many details, she asked me to wake up my daughter and ask her about a conversation with a student at school earlier in th...