On June 10, there was a bomb and gun threat at Roosevelt High School here locally in North Seattle. I don’t know much about it, but the folks at my gym were talking about it and saying it was called in from somebody within the school.
I joked about it being finals week (which, it was).
Andy, one of the trainer/owners of the gym then told us a story about the school he went to in the early 2000’s. He went to an American school in a foreign country (I don’t know which). There were 3 total bomb threats called in over a couple of weeks. This being just after September 11, the threats were taken seriously and the kids were evacuated and sent home each time.
The third time, however, the school required all the students to make-up the missed class on a Saturday.
No more bomb threats.
And that’s how incentives work.
Eric Frankl.in 