Yesterday, emails were sent to the nation’s two largest school districts, New York City and the Los Angeles Unified School District. New York City Mayor De Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton immediately determined the email was a hoax, while Los Angeles officials shut down the whole district. From the Washington Post,

New York City officials opted to open their public schools on time Tuesday, calling the message an amateurish hoax imitating a popular television series. But across the country in Los Angeles, Superintendent Ramon Cortines took a different tack, closing every school in his sprawling district in a move that disrupted the daily lives of more than 640,000 students and their families.

Maybe the threat wasn’t real. But maybe it was. And at a time when the world is reeling from terrorist attacks — including two weeks ago in San Bernardino, just an hour’s drive from Los Angeles — Cortines said he had no choice but to be cautious.

Today, the Daily Mail out of the United Kingdom has more of the odd details.

LA police, school boards, and politicians even stuck by their decision after New York officials highlighted major flaws in the email – such as the misspelling of ‘Allah’ with a lowercase ‘a’.
It has also been revealed the writer of the message claimed he joined a ‘jihadi cell’ after he’d been bullied and rejected from ‘one of the district’s high schools’.
The threatening email, which threw school days on the West coast into disarray, read: ‘I am a devout Muslim, and was once against violence, but I have teamed up with a local jihadist cell as it is the only way I’ll be able to accomplish my massacre the correct way.’

Again, from the Daily Mail,