Looked and could not find a discussion on this. Apologies if I missed it.
Just in the last week, there has been a threat to Hill Elementary from an unmedicated schizophrenic: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-police-make-an-arrest-linked-to-austin-isd-elementary-school-threat
A kid was pulled out of class at Lamar Middle School by police for threatening gun violence (no article on this one, but I have spoken to the school principal about it personally).
Another threat to Lamar Middle school happened over the weekend, which now appears to have been middle school girls from another middle school (so hopefully not a credible threat).
Just in case anyone mistakenly thinks this is isolated to AISD, here's just a handful of similar instances happening out in the burbs. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/social-media-threat-response-school-districts-central-texas-list-of-arrests/269-ec879603-9371-45f0-8c53-c5c38edc35ab
Tons of kids are being kept home today due to all this shit, although we sent ours as there doesn't seem to be any active danger. I don't really have much to add other than I hate that kids are growing up with this as a baseline reality. I have 12 year old twins, and it's difficult to explain to them why the adults (myself included) can't create a safe environment for them. Getting kids motivated to go to school and put up with all the bullshit that involves (shitty teachers, boring lessons, misguided romantic entanglements, asshole bullies, etc. etc.) gets even tougher when you have to add "oh, and you might get shot and die" to the list of crappy things that come with middle school and high school life. These kids are growing up in some genuinely shitty times, but the adults haven't done a damn thing about it other than complain about how millennials and Gen Z are so dysfunctional as adults. Well, we made them that way.