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Originally Posted by NC_SS

.........5th grade lol

Same here.
Only about 2 weeks into 5th grade. It was a strange morning. It started with the office calling over the intercom for a student to be sent up for early dismissal. Then a few minutes later they called for another student, and then another. They called out a school wide announcement for teachers to check their email; which was how they broke the news to them. For another hour more and more classmates were getting pulled out and picked up by there parents. It got to the point where they were sending runners with lists to get students rather than using the intercom. Meanwhile we were still in the dark as to why everyone was leaving.

Looking back I give my teachers credit for being not missing a beat and keeping calm as if nothing was happening. After awhile they announced we would be closing early and everyone would eat an early lunch. After that early(and empty) lunch we went back to our room and our teacher the sat us down and finally told us what was going on. We then spent the last hour til we left playing scrabble and listing to radio reports of the news. Out of the 120 or so kids in my grade about 25 of us were left by then. It was just eerie.