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After a victorious sweep last night by JV and Varsity highschool basketball teams I help coach, the post victory speech was stopped short when my players stated that they were not excited to go to school the next day. There is a school policy that kids have to attend three consecutive periods in order to participate in any after school activities and we had another game scheduled the next day. And the 'tomorrow' they were speaking of also happened to be the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. So I didn't think twice when I laughed at them and told them they better be in every single class. 'A kid threatened to shoot up the school and kill students tomorrow. None of us want to go.' My kids were afraid to go to school, not because of a Mayan prediction, but because of a threat by a peer. They had every reason to be on edge. Fortunately, the kid was found expelled right before our game. I got confirmation from one of the teachers at the school and told th...