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Dear World, did you have lockdown drills @ school growing up?
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Nope.
Evacuation drills, yes, quite regularily. For stuff like fire or gaz leaks.
But "lockdown" drills ? Never.
Well, i've been through a few "student lockdowns" where students locked down themselves in the university to protest about some random stuff. But that's not the same. (France, you know... protesting shit is something we learn early)
Evacuation drills, yes, quite regularily. For stuff like fire or gaz leaks.
But "lockdown" drills ? Never.
Well, i've been through a few "student lockdowns" where students locked down themselves in the university to protest about some random stuff. But that's not the same. (France, you know... protesting shit is something we learn early)
Yeah, this exactly. I was in my first or second year of college when Columbine happened; school shootings just weren't a thing before then.
Also I'm fairly convinced that these lockdown drills are mostly bullshit. If the shooter wants to get into the room, he or she is getting in. If it's a school situation, and the shooter has specific targets in mind, that shooter probably knows exactly where those targets should be at that time of day, and will find a way in. It's a modern day "duck and cover."
ya, after a kid blew up a toilet in the basement at my school and left another homemade device in the hallway.
This is incorrect. We had them when I went to high 15-19 years ago.
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Earthquake drills when I lived in CA.
Did have a couple of "emergency drills" (basically just rapid evacuation) when I lived on a foreign military base after the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and US military bases elevated their security status en masse.
Did have a couple of "emergency drills" (basically just rapid evacuation) when I lived on a foreign military base after the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and US military bases elevated their security status en masse.
Exactly. I mean, I'm American, but lockdown drills are nothing new. Before school shootings became what they are today (not that they didn't exist back then), bomb threats were a common scare, along with other other intruder threats.
It's still not a thing in The Netherlands, thankfully.
To Americans who experienced them: did they make you feel more secure or more scared?
Went to school from 1986-2002 in the UK.
We had fire drills, and in my time in the school's cadet force we did hit the tail end of advice on the IRA (Vary your route to school, check under the car in a morning for car bombs, report suspicious activity, don't change into uniform before arriving etc.)
We had fire drills, and in my time in the school's cadet force we did hit the tail end of advice on the IRA (Vary your route to school, check under the car in a morning for car bombs, report suspicious activity, don't change into uniform before arriving etc.)
I might be misremembering, but I think they only put them into place for us after Columbine.
we did these drills in the late 90s at my school in Texas. So they've been a thing for a while at least. I hope other countries don't have to do it
Yeah I don't recall them before that. Also, some schools are just much more secure than others. Like my school, even back then, had full time, on duty, uniformed campus police.
No, even though we had a couple of school shootings when I went to school in Germany. Additional firearm restrictions were put in place and we haven't had a shooting in quite a while. Whether that's the only contributing factor I don't know, though.
Fire drills we had a couple of, even one with actual smoke because our physics teacher wanted to make it more realistic. Me and a couple of other pupils went through the smoke because we knew of it beforehand. It was fun but probably not the intended outcome...
Fire drills we had a couple of, even one with actual smoke because our physics teacher wanted to make it more realistic. Me and a couple of other pupils went through the smoke because we knew of it beforehand. It was fun but probably not the intended outcome...
We had weather drills for like tornados and such (which looking back on it was dumb cause we lived in WV where there are never tornadoes lol). We also had fire and bomb drills like once every year or two. The bomb part was only because some stupid dude left a note in the school as a joke ("I thought it would be funny to see how the principal reacted" was his line of defense. Moron). Dude got slapped with jail time, IIRC cause he was 18 and a senior in HS.
But lockdown drill for a shooting or something? No. We did have campus alert drills at college tho. We just got a text or phone call saying it was a test and saying what we should do if it happened.
But lockdown drill for a shooting or something? No. We did have campus alert drills at college tho. We just got a text or phone call saying it was a test and saying what we should do if it happened.
Wasn't a thing when I was in school. Then again back then school shootings were rare and mostly gang related. The only on campus shooting I'm aware of doing my high school time happened when they sent a bunch of gang members from my high school to another high school.
In america, only in high school and it wasn't very often. Also, the teacher only had to lock the door and we didn't have to do anything. Unlike the picture OP posted. This was after 9/11 and I think this was for one year and not really enforced the year afterwards. So yeah it was the drills but not to the extreme like there is today.
No, because I'm British and after our last school shooting sensible and successful laws were enacted to make sure firearms were severely restricted.
We had lockdown drills when I was in elementary in the 90s. This was well before Columbine happened. I think I may have had some in high school in the early 00s, but only teachers took them seriously.
I recall some teachers in elementary making us move away from the door and others just letting us sit at our desks in attempted silence. One being real because someones parent didn't check in with the front office.
I recall some teachers in elementary making us move away from the door and others just letting us sit at our desks in attempted silence. One being real because someones parent didn't check in with the front office.
I'm too young to do bomb drills, and too old to do shooter drills.
We had fire and tornado drills. It boggles my mind that the school my son goes to emails us information about doing lock down drills near the end of the school year, and what they do during them.
We had fire and tornado drills. It boggles my mind that the school my son goes to emails us information about doing lock down drills near the end of the school year, and what they do during them.
This is false. Also, we stopped doing the pledge in like the 4th grade and I grew up in a blood red part of the country.
Panama, and no. Thankfully, guns are regulated here and only few people can legally own at least one firearm.
No but we had a bunch of bomb threats in the late 90's so there was a lot of hanging around in the parking lot smoking weed waiting hours for us to go back in.
Fire drills was the only drill
Fire drills was the only drill
I made a similar thread a while ago.
Never had any lockdown drills in school, although I attended high school after Columbine happened. We had semi-regular bomb threats the last two years I was in school.
As an adult, I've had active shooter drills at several workplaces. Particularly after the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
Never had any lockdown drills in school, although I attended high school after Columbine happened. We had semi-regular bomb threats the last two years I was in school.
As an adult, I've had active shooter drills at several workplaces. Particularly after the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
