My kid goes to Spaulding in Rochester NH, they're now also locking down themselves, apparently out of abundance of caution. The amount of misinformation going around already is insane, my daughter is saying that all of her classmates are sharing multiple casualties at Sanford on social media, which is getting more ridiculous as it continues making the rounds and people add to the bullshit.

Been listening to the Sanford Police scanner for 25 minutes, they're going through the school clearing every nook and cranny while they round up any teachers and students unaccounted for. I've heard no talk of actual shooters, danger, any concern from the officers. Doesn't mean that there 100% wasn't an issue, it's feasible that they could be keeping certain things off their main channel to prevent panic, but extremely unlikely IMO. They did mention that the caller who phoned in the alleged active shooter provided a suspect name, "Mike" something, I won't even attempt say what I think the last name said was, not only because it was difficult to make out, but primarily because I don't want further spread of misinformation / witch hunts.

Portland also allegedly got a similar active shooter report phoned in, state police currently calling that one a hoax as well.

edit Jesus, the parents are just as bad, if not worse than the kids. I guess Facebook parent / school groups with multiple parents posting stuff like reports of 5 dead in Sanford, a shootout in Portland and someone roaming the halls with a gun at my kids school, some are getting deleted but others apparently haven't yet. At least one parent claimed he was headed to the school with his AR, that also seems to have been removed pretty quickly. What is wrong with people? Why would a parent immediately take a text from their child about an alleged shooting at school 15 miles away as accurate enough to post publicly and scare the crap out of other parents before first checking to see if it's credible?