Kids Plan To Shoot Up School; Students Shrug

Remember Columbine? That was the high school in Colorado where a bunch of kids shot up the school because they listened to too much Marilyn Manson or watched early screenings of The Matrix over and over and over. Or something. I don’t really remember. I was a junior in high school when it happened, and they’d threaten to give you detention if you were wearing a leather belt, let alone a trenchcoat.

Anyway, three kids at Winslow Township High School in Jersey were arrested for allegedly threatening to pull a Columbine at their high school. They had about 25 students, teachers and other faculty they were planning on attacking, police said. Kids heard rumors and tipped off school officials.

I’m not quite sure how their plan was going to work, since they were allegedly going to start a food fight and then escalate into throwing chairs and then firing shots. Of course, I think the food fight went away in about 5th grade (in, like, 1975) but perhaps in Jersey they still find it fun.

Even though the plot has been foiled, older students at the school pretty much decided that, eh, we’re students, we don’t really care:

Senior Bayyina Black said that everyone at the school was aware of what had happened but that few seemed scared.

“They were saying they were going to shoot up the school,” she said, shrugging and shoving books into her car trunk. [...]

“It’s just a setback,” Black said. “It’s just a waste of our time.”

Some teachers asked how students felt about the alleged plot, but mostly it was class as usual, said Layla Torres, a senior.

“I don’t really care, as long as the cops take care of it,” she said. “I don’t think they were really going to do it, anyway.”

Holy shit! Winslow Township High School kids are tough cookies.

Massacre plot at Winslow alleged [Inky]