Thursday at 11:15 am Monti and Dahlia’s school received a call from
the Issaquah Police Department telling them they needed to go to a
level 4 lockdown. An armed man had threatened another man at a
business near the school and fled before he was apprehended. They
feared for the safety of the kids with the angry man at large. In a
level 4 lockdown blinds are closed, doors are locked, lights are out,
kids are on the floor and there is no talking. The lockdown went on
for 2 hours before it was lifted. None of the kids were able to eat
their lunches. For those classrooms without bathrooms the kids had to
use waste paper baskets behind the teachers desk to relieve
themselves. I was on the way home from a field trip with Dahlia’s
class when the bus driver received a message that we were supposed to
stay clear of IVE. They took us to the transportation center where we
sat for 30 minutes trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
The bus was full of very hungry kindergartners and parents so they
drove us to another elementary school in the area where they fed us
all lunches. With my iPhone I was able to find out what was going on
but I was still very concerned that Monti would be really upset. When
we returned to school I immediately went to check up on Monti who was
finally eating her lunch. She wasn’t too upset with the whole thing — in
fact she seem downright excited to inform me that she had peed in the
garbage can.
