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Anytime a bomb threat happened, my school had everyone go home. Everyone knew the threat was being made by some kid that wanted to go home and play Halo. This is still the response to bomb threats to this day.
Question for people under 40: - Did you ever do Duck and Cover drills?
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Damn, you're telling me you have insider knowledge of how they react and haven't even considered becoming famous for exploiting it yourself?
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School shooter drills or as the district called it, lock down drills.
We did watch the Duck and Cover short film in history class though
We did watch the Duck and Cover short film in history class though
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Yes, but it faded away in around the year 2000.
to be fair, i grew up in a zone where both sides would have used nukes to keep the enemie tankforces from encircling the gap.
to be fair, i grew up in a zone where both sides would have used nukes to keep the enemie tankforces from encircling the gap.
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Yes. I even had them in preschool, and throughout high school but by then the students didn't really do a drill so much as listened to the teacher yammer on about "if this happens this is what we will do and where we will line up and go in the school" blah blah blah. Especially after columbine happened, my mom gave me full permission to fuck off from whatever classroom or teacher I had and run the hell away from the building, even if out a window (several places to essentially open the full window and escape, one was notorious girls bathroom on the 3rd floor, you could climb out and climb down the side of the shop building pretty easily to a weird makeshift alley behind the auditorium and shop classes in basement.
Several times when these "drills" happened I just fucked off and left school cuz fuck that, it disrupts the day, no learning happens anyways and Im not fucking cattle, I'm here to fucking learn or i'll go do something better with my time.
Then we had similar drills for tornadoes. We had to get under our desks or all line up along a certain wall and get on our knees facing the wall all in a line, bend over and stick our heads between our knees. I"m not sure exactly what that was supposed to do.
When I was in 2nd grade in around 1991 or so, they started this thing that the last student to leave the room for a tornado (by then they were putting us somewhere else than a classroom) that the student had to crack or half open a window, because soemthing that tornadoes cause air pressue and makes windows break. Yea my family was rural and we knew storms and we knew that was bullshit, and because my last name is at the end of the alphabet and sat in the back corner i was picked/voluntold. My mom, who hated teachers unions, did a full Karen about protecting her kid, it was pretty epic, and they never did that nonsense again. I think it actually may have happened once more but the class bully got to be the last one to fuck with the window, which seemed really common sense and no one liked him and we all hoped he'd die anyways, might as well give him a martyr job
My middle school literally put the entire school in the boileroom once. A bunch of kids got heat stroke because teachers are idiots and just took their damn time corralling all the kids in this, admittedly, neat room that normally we would never see, and of course they're all chatting int he hallway not in the heat. Several students went home sick puking from the classes that went in first, and a bunch of parents got pissed. That was the last time they ever tried that.
It's also one of those memories that sticks with you that Teachers are evil and selfish power hungry people and are in general not to be respected in the slightest. They didn't give a shit that the kids were complaining they were feeling sick and overheating.
When I was really young and on the west coast we had earthquake drills which are similar. My mom taught me to always keep hidden snacks in my backpack in case the ceiling came down and I got trapped waiting for ER personell that at least I'd ahve snacks. LOL.
Several times when these "drills" happened I just fucked off and left school cuz fuck that, it disrupts the day, no learning happens anyways and Im not fucking cattle, I'm here to fucking learn or i'll go do something better with my time.
Then we had similar drills for tornadoes. We had to get under our desks or all line up along a certain wall and get on our knees facing the wall all in a line, bend over and stick our heads between our knees. I"m not sure exactly what that was supposed to do.
When I was in 2nd grade in around 1991 or so, they started this thing that the last student to leave the room for a tornado (by then they were putting us somewhere else than a classroom) that the student had to crack or half open a window, because soemthing that tornadoes cause air pressue and makes windows break. Yea my family was rural and we knew storms and we knew that was bullshit, and because my last name is at the end of the alphabet and sat in the back corner i was picked/voluntold. My mom, who hated teachers unions, did a full Karen about protecting her kid, it was pretty epic, and they never did that nonsense again. I think it actually may have happened once more but the class bully got to be the last one to fuck with the window, which seemed really common sense and no one liked him and we all hoped he'd die anyways, might as well give him a martyr job
My middle school literally put the entire school in the boileroom once. A bunch of kids got heat stroke because teachers are idiots and just took their damn time corralling all the kids in this, admittedly, neat room that normally we would never see, and of course they're all chatting int he hallway not in the heat. Several students went home sick puking from the classes that went in first, and a bunch of parents got pissed. That was the last time they ever tried that.
It's also one of those memories that sticks with you that Teachers are evil and selfish power hungry people and are in general not to be respected in the slightest. They didn't give a shit that the kids were complaining they were feeling sick and overheating.
When I was really young and on the west coast we had earthquake drills which are similar. My mom taught me to always keep hidden snacks in my backpack in case the ceiling came down and I got trapped waiting for ER personell that at least I'd ahve snacks. LOL.
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My school called them civil defense drills but I only remember doing them a couple times, in my first years of school.
Interesting that we have the civil defense generation and the active shooter generation. What will we teach children to hide from next?
Interesting that we have the civil defense generation and the active shooter generation. What will we teach children to hide from next?
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Don't they get in trouble afterwards?
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I had a cold once during one of these drills and my teacher kept giving me dirty looks because I was coughing and when I tried to hold it in a blew snot everywhere.
A couple students learned how to duck and cover then.
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I went to school in the 90s and 2000s so I think those were long gone before I went to school. The drills I had were
Fire drills - Students and teachers would leave in an orderly manner to the nearest exit and go several feet away from the school. Drill was always loud.
Tornado drills- Students would go into the hallway and get on their knees by the wall. They would crotch down and put their hands over their head. Used to think it was dumb because covering your head isn't going to help when you are tossed several feet.
Earthquake drill- Students and teachers would get under their desk or any type of cover so nothing would fall on them. Earthquakes happen here but they're not as common as on the west coast.
Lockdown drill- Teachers would lock the door and turn the lights off. The teachers and students would hide away from windows and doors. Shootings weren't as common throughout my school life, so my friends and I never took them seriously.
Fire drills - Students and teachers would leave in an orderly manner to the nearest exit and go several feet away from the school. Drill was always loud.
Tornado drills- Students would go into the hallway and get on their knees by the wall. They would crotch down and put their hands over their head. Used to think it was dumb because covering your head isn't going to help when you are tossed several feet.
Earthquake drill- Students and teachers would get under their desk or any type of cover so nothing would fall on them. Earthquakes happen here but they're not as common as on the west coast.
Lockdown drill- Teachers would lock the door and turn the lights off. The teachers and students would hide away from windows and doors. Shootings weren't as common throughout my school life, so my friends and I never took them seriously.
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Only for School Shooter Drills. School today absolutely give zero fucks about Tornadoes, Earthquakes and Nuclear Weapons. I do remember back in 2014 when I was in Art Class and I smelled something burning. This led the entire building be evacuated.
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Terrorism/bomb threat drills after September 11th. Then tornado drills for a bit of time like that, and then lockdown school shooter drills after Sandy Hook when that was all the rage.