All L.A. schools closed because of 'credible terror threat'

Of course it's not. If there's a credible threat of terrorism then public schools obviously have to err on the side of safety for the students, but asking the question sarcastically points up just how ridiculous it is when the left aims this argument at the rest of us. They've conflated taking a threat seriously and thinking something should be done about it with being afraid. Anyway, we don't know a lot about the L.A. situation, but here's what KTLA is reporting right now:

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All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday after LAUSD received a “credible terror threat,” according to school district officials and police. More details about the threat were expected to be provided during a Tuesday morning news conference. Officer Kim of the Los Angeles Police Department told KTLA that the threat prompted the decision from LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines to close all schools until further notice. The district serves about 700,000 students.

We don't know if the threat comes from someone with an Islamic background or not, and for that matter we don't even know what criteria the LAPD uses to judge if a threat is credible or not. Another possibility, of course, is that whoever made the threat wanted to shut the schools down - either because it's a student who needs a day off (another day to study for that Spanish test couldn't hurt) or because there's an entirely different kind of plot that's easier to pull off when school is not going on. My speculation is worth exactly what you're paying for it, of course, so the only real point I'm trying to make is that it's way too soon to jump to any conclusions about what's really happening in L.A. We'll keep an eye on the story as it develops. UPDATE: The New York Times (so take that for what it's worth) reports that the threat was received electronically and "some of the details talked about backpacks and other packages." But no one knows which school building might have been the target and there are more than 1,000 in the district.