[Okay, just. Give him a second and he will try to stop crying and there is nothing about this that isn't just a tremendous orzfest and he knows it, but he'll...attempt to explain.]

That's what we've been telling ourselves, too, but we don't know what's happening with the police - it's been a week since this started and we haven't heard anything, and it's not like the school is in the middle of nowhere, either! We don't understand, but we also don't have any way to contact the outside.