#lockdown drills

[thecoolest-eli]

If you goon while squatting it could probably save your life

Okay so basically gooning while squatting strengthens your legs and also balance probably as well as your control; keep that in mind.

Imagine you’re in a situation where you need to get down low and crouch/squat, e.g you’re in a lockdown and there isn’t enough space to sit comfortably. The average person can only hold a squat for one to two minutes, however lockdowns may last for much longer. However, like I said before, gooning while squatting can strengthen your legs, and severely lessen any discomfort and pain the average person may experience in a prolonged squat. Reading this back I realise that just doing daily squatting can probably have the same affect however if you aren’t keen on exercise then just goon

I kid you not this works not clickbate

[odinsblog]

[wallow-in-despair]

I wonder if the British people who make fun of American shootings understand how traumatizing it is that lockdown/stay in place drills are a thing. How awful it is that the fire alarm doesn't mean fire anymore, it means stay in your class until someone comes onto the speaker to tell you to leave. Because they have to check if there is actually a fire, and not someone pulling the alarm to get everyone onto the football field so they can shoot everyone at once. How we are told by our teachers and parents, and every other adult in our lives that if we are in a bad situation, to lay down next to a dead person, cover ourselves in their blood, and play dead.

Stop using gun violence as fuel for bad "jokes"

There were 417 mass shootings in 2019. 610 in 2020. 690 in 2021. 647 in 2022. 632 in 2023.

It's march, and almost 5000 people have died due to gun violence in 2024.

It's not funny. It's not a joke. Shut the fuck up about school shootings and gun violence when someone laughed about your beans on toast.

[alaskan-wallflower]

tw for shooting mentions but i gotta get smth off my chest

i never really realized how fucked up it was that in america we have to have drills about what to do in case a shooter comes into the school

like i didn’t even realize other countries didn’t do this until like fifth/sixth grade i just thought it was normal

it is so appalling that we need to actually practice this in school

[shadowdemon-gd]

Are lockdown drills actually not normal? One time I told someone we did our first senior year lockdown drill and they started being sympathetic and said like “do you wanna talk about it”. I’ve been doing this shit since I was 7. It doesn’t really faze me. It’s good to be prepared

[silverstar2419]

When I started writing this, I sitting in class during a school lockdown drill. The lights were off, and we were mostly quiet. It took a few minutes before security finished checking the doors and the office said to begin the evacuation part of our drill.

Before it started the teacher explained how we had to take it seriously even though it wasn’t real right now. “As unfortunately as it is, this is something we have to at least plan for” he told us.

I’m a high school senior in Central California. My school isn’t high risk for this kind of stuff, but I guess many people think that.

Last year there were 2 lock-downs. Minor ones (fight that escalated and someone pulled out a knife- quickly contained- and a gas leak around the corner. We have many false fire alarms so if there were a fire we probably wouldn’t realize.

At the beginning of my freshman year, there was a seminar for the rest of the freshmen explaining all the school’s procedures for most safety related things (sexual harassment, lockdowns, evacuations, etc). A lot of people fell asleep because we had heard similar procedures in middle school and elementary.

In middle school we had the drills, but nothing happened.

Elementary was different. I went to 2 different schools and both had genuine lockdowns as well as drills.

Kindergarten was my first drill. I remember how some were scared and most of us just didn’t understand. They told us to sit close together and be quiet but we didn’t understand why and tried asking the teachers. They just reiterated that we had to be quiet until they said so.

In first grade we knew what to expect, most behaved but some still didn’t grasp that we had to be quiet. My teacher understood but told us we had to be quiet.

There was a drill in second grade, but I don’t remember it because that was the first time I remember having a genuine lockdown. I remember it was valentine’s day and we were making things for that. I remember it was code yellow- suspicious activity off campus with potential for a weapon. Apparently someone was driving slowly around the school. I remember people crying and hiding under the table and the teacher reassuring us kids that we would be ok. The situation was made worse by a dad threatening to get his gun and shoot the guy threatening the school. The threat made us more scared.

From what I remember 3rd grade was normal. In 4th grade I switches schools and it was similar to the years prior, but this time people kept crying and being utterly terrified during the drill. I wanted them to be quiet, they were going to get us in trouble. If it were a real lockdown then there was a chance we’d get killed.

5th grade was much the same, but in 6th grade we went on lockdown for crimes in the area (robbery down the street).

Also in 6th grade, my teacher was chosen to help make a video about what to do in lockdown. My class was recorded to show my teacher’s procedures- a belt on certain parts of the door to stop it from opening, bats around the classroom in case we need to fight, and desks perfectly arranged for cover from the windows. The video showed us hiding behind the desks, someone trying to enter the classroom, and us running to safety. We thought it was fun then, and I was proud to be in a classroom that was considered safe enough to be an example. Now it just makes me sad.

Safety shouldn’t be a question. I shouldn’t have to wonder if I’m safe going to school. I shouldn’t have to fear for my life and the lives of those around me. I shouldn’t have to question if my school or my kid brother’s school is safe, if they’ll protect is, and I certainly shouldn’t believe that they wouldn’t be able to.

[ivory-haired-queens-blog]

What it's like to be in a real lockdown

So, I'm not making a joke, and by no means am I trying to one-up those who have been in an active shooter environment or had an actual bomb planted in their school. Now that that's clear, on to the story.

So, I may have posted about this in the past, but here's the full story.

My school had a bomb threat.

Of course, sitting in the classroom, we didn't know this.

So, when the lockdown alarm went off, we were all like "Oh, another drill? I mean, okay."

None of us took it seriously.

And they didn't inform the teachers either, as to not cause panic. Because some teachers may have tried to leave the school, and if someone called a bomb threat to lure kids out of the school, that would be very bad.

Anyways, I know exactly where I was. Even though this was five-six years ago.

I was walking back to class after lunch. I was in fifth grade, which in my school was counted as middle school. To get to the fifth grade classrooms, you had to walk past the sixth grade classrooms.

I was near the sixth grade classrooms when the alarm went off.

Nobody thought it was serious, as we have like 10 lockdown drills a year.

And the teachers thought they weren't told about the drill because in past drills they haven't taken it seriously.

Anyways, I end up in the Ela teachers room. She ushered me and about twelve other fifth graders into her class.

Our drills last 5-10 minutes tops.

So, we were all whispering amongst ourselves on the floor, and one of the kids who is overly prepared goes "guys, it's been ten minutes already."

And we were like "oh, maybe they just haven't checked to see if all the doors were locked yet."

At fifteen minutes, we were all kind of scared. Not terrified, but we knew something was up.

At a half hour, one kid was having a panic attack, and I was close there myself.

After doing breathing excersizes and managing to calm myself down, it had been 45 minutes since the alarm.

We sat in that classroom for another hour.

People I didn't even know who still had their lunch boxes from lunch were offering us snacks, to try to calm us down more than anything.

I'll never forget how in a time of crisis, people always show who they really are. I know it sounds cliche, but it's true.

Suddenly the loudspeaker came on, and I was convinced that it was gonna be a shooter or terrorist saying they were in control or something like that, but it was a police officer.

And he said "please remain calm, teachers, evacuate to (our evacuation spot)

And we were all freaking the fuck out. I wasn't crying, as my hyperventilating caused me to think about not suffocating.

So we evacuated, and i had heard a few theories of shooters, a gas leak, whatever.

So we're all there, and the buses came to pick us up. We have our stuff still in our lockers, and we can't go get it.

We were all scared to go to school the next day. In fact, less than half of our grade showed up.

Anyways, this isn't some fucking "story time" thing. This does have a message. Several, actually.

1. LET YOUR FUCKING STUDENTS CARRY CELL PHONES. look, I get it. "It can be a distraction." But I was absolutely certain I was going to die in that classroom, and I had people I wanted to tell that I loved them. I know, it would cause panic amongst the parents, potentially causing more problems. But if I'm going to die, I want the last thing that I ever say to my mother to be I love you. We weren't allowed to have phones, so if it was a real bomb, I don't know what the last thing I said to my mom would've been.

2. If you're pro-gun, gtfo my blog. Unfollow me. Block me, idc. We need fucking gun laws, and if I had it my way nobody would own a gun. There are other ways to kill people, and a gun is most efficient. Efficient isn't always good, especially if we're talking about plowing down middle schoolers. And I know, this was a bomb threat, not a shooting threat. But even if you arm teachers like people want to do, what the fuck will a gun do against a bomb? If you want a gun for self-defense, just take a fucking self defense class and protect the lives of your children.

3. Police officers a should be stationed at all schools at all times. 4 or 5. Idgaf about your reasoning for not agreeing, I'd like a trained professional who knows how to stop a dangerous person in the same school as children. Police officers in our town were away doing something else and that's why it took almost two hours to evacuate us. We need them at schools. We just do.

4. MENTAL HEALTH & SPEAKING UP. BOTH IMPORTANT. The girl- yes, a female- who called the bomb threat on the school was diagnosed with severe depression and I think bi-polar. By no means am I saying that people who are bi-polar or depressed will do this, it's just that she wasn't being properly cared for with her mental illness. Also, apparently, and I don't know if it's true or not but these are the rumors, the girl had made several "jokes" about bombing or shooting up the school, so strangely placed in conversation that it put her friends on edge. Her friends felt that something was wrong, but didn't report her. ALWAYS SPEAK UP. EVEN IF YOU'RE WRONG, IT'S BETTER TO BE WRONG AND REPORT IT THAN TO BE RIGHT AND NOT REPORT IT.

So, if nothing else, take from this that everyone has their own story for their opinions and why they think them. I know I have no tolerance for pro-gunners, but I can at least acknowledge that they have opinions (hopefully) based off of fact and expirence.

[noitsbecky127]

it is late 2012. i am in second grade. one day, i unplug my dad’s device to charge my own, and i see a notification on his lock screen. i do not get a good look, but i clearly see that someone killed 20 kids in connecticut. i don’t understand what it means, but i know it is bad. i decide not to mention that i saw it.

i hear adults talking about it, later. it scares me. my parents tell me about it. i wonder why the man did it. why would he kill people?

in early 2013, our teacher tells us that we are going to have a lockdown drill. i don’t understand what is means. is it like a fire drill? she explains to us that if someone gets into the school to hurt us, we will have a lockdown so that they can’t get us. we sit against the wall, trying to take up as little space as possible. the teacher locks the door. there are giggles and whispers; how can there not be? we are seven and eight-year-olds.

lockdown drills become as normal as fire ones. we hear the announcement, and instantly we all run to crowd ourselves against the wall. we learn to stay quiet. we grow older, and the lockdown drills remain a part of school. we become numb to the news of school shootings, because there’s just so many. at the beginning of every year, our new teacher explains to us what we will do in the event of a lockdown. it is a mere mention at home; an offhand, “we had a lockdown drill today.”

it never occurs to us that maybe things can change, that maybe we shouldn’t have to routinely practice safety protocol if someone tries to kill us, because it is what we know. we learned safety measures in case a shooter breaks in before we learned long division. amendments made by colonial men with no concept of 21st-century life take priority over the lives of students.

and none of that is okay.