#1
Posted: 3/16/05 at 8:20am
Isn't it sad how we must have lockdown drills in school these days?
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#2
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:24am
Sounds awful. What does it entail?
#3
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:28am
at my school a lockdown just meant every door was locked, and nobody could leave or enter the classroom, but class would just go on normally. No fun!
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#4
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:32am
But you can still post on BWW?? What's the problem?
#5
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:35am
wildcat, it's like a fire drill, or an earthquake drill. Sadly today with all the nuts in the world (recently Atlanta and Wisconsin) schools practice lockdowns.......
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#6
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:39am
What happens if you have to go to the bathroom?
#8
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:42am
You have to hold it. Lockdowns were incredibly dumb. My high school did them for drug busts (which happened every year before Feb. Vacation - not surprisingly, the idiots never caught on to that trend, and still brought in their drugs)
#9
Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:43am
I think, but am not sure, a student can be escorted to the bathroom. Most lick-downs I've heard of, in the districts I work with, the school is locked down, but not individual classrooms, ie all entrances into the school are locked-down, but not anything within the school. The point is to keep anyone out who should not be there (hence keeping the kids in) and not to keep people stuck in rooms.......unless of course something is actually going on, ie Columbine, etc.
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#10
Posted: 3/16/05 at 12:53pm
Does anyone else see that and think fire hazard?
#11
Posted: 3/16/05 at 12:55pm
I had like six REAL lockdowns when I was in high school.
It was funny, though. See, when they thought there was a bomb in the building, they kept us locked down in classrooms, where they planned to keep us until about three minutes before the time that it was supposedly scheduled to go off. You'd think the proper procedure for a supposed GUN would be to lock down and stay put, but for a bomb, you'd probably want to get OUT of the buidling. I went to the most f*cked up high school on the planet.
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It was funny, though. See, when they thought there was a bomb in the building, they kept us locked down in classrooms, where they planned to keep us until about three minutes before the time that it was supposedly scheduled to go off. You'd think the proper procedure for a supposed GUN would be to lock down and stay put, but for a bomb, you'd probably want to get OUT of the buidling. I went to the most f*cked up high school on the planet.
#12
Posted: 3/16/05 at 1:02pm
Hehe, Elphaba said lick-downs...
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#13
Posted: 3/16/05 at 1:43pm
It ended up being a huge drug bust. LOL. Three K-9 units from the county sheriff, 10 police cars all over the parking lot, locker searching, car searching. Our school is not used to that kind of thing, lol.
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#14
Posted: 3/16/05 at 3:00pm
I've had a few lock downs in the three years i've been in highschool...
One was when a chem lab kinda blew up (the teacher's fault), and the others were drug busts. But that's not unusual, because my school's nickname IS Heroin High, so yeah... lol
One was when a chem lab kinda blew up (the teacher's fault), and the others were drug busts. But that's not unusual, because my school's nickname IS Heroin High, so yeah... lol
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#15
Posted: 3/16/05 at 3:19pm
"I think, but am not sure, a student can be escorted to the bathroom. Most LICK-downs I've heard of, in the districts I work with, the school is locked down, but not individual classrooms, ie all entrances into the school are locked-down, but not anything within the school."
Exactly WHAT does a lick-down entail? Please enlighten me...
Exactly WHAT does a lick-down entail? Please enlighten me...
#17
Posted: 3/16/05 at 3:58pm
When we have lock-downs at my school, the bell will ring so many times in a row (I think it's 5). Then the teacher has to lock the door, turn off the lights in the classroom and all of the students basically have to hide in the corner. The point is that, if some crazy person really were in the building or something, they would think that the room was empty and not try to go inside. I've never been in a real lock-down, but the drills are kinda fun. You have to get pretty creative when there are 30 people in your class and you all have to find a hiding spot.
#18
Posted: 3/16/05 at 4:02pm
I know what a lick down is. I've had one of those...
#19
Posted: 3/16/05 at 4:33pm
"The point is that, if some crazy person really were in the building or something, they would think that the room was empty and not try to go inside."
So, the crazy person will think every single room is empty?
So, the crazy person will think every single room is empty?
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#20
Posted: 3/16/05 at 4:35pm
oh my God CKeaton, I did type lick-downs......well, we know where my mind is today!
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#21
Posted: 3/16/05 at 4:36pm
I'd much prefer a lick-down to a lock-down. Actually, getting a lick-down while in lock-down could be lots of fun!
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#22
Posted: 3/16/05 at 4:41pm
The last lockdown I was in was when the Columbine shootings happened. Since Columbine is about two or three miles away from where I went to middle school, there was at least a valid reason for doing that. In high school, we had a "bear drill" once where we all had to go out to the football field (that was the principal's idiotic rationale--but we all knew it was really a terrorism drill. I mean, why the hell would you herd all your students *outside* if a wild animal was in the area? Dumbass).
I've never been in a lick-down, sadly. *sniff*
I've never been in a lick-down, sadly. *sniff*
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#23
Posted: 3/16/05 at 5:14pm
We had them two years ago; the secretary, in an emergency, would announce on the loudspeaker in a very tense voice, "MR. MAJOR, WILL YOU PLEASE COME TO THE OFFICE. MR. MAJOR, WILL YOU PLEASE COME TO THE OFFICE." It was a code, you see. That signaled the kids and teacher to close all the window shades, lock the door, turn of the ligths, and bunch up in a corner of the room away from the windows and doors. :-p
#24
Posted: 3/16/05 at 5:22pm
My mom would tell me all about the different loudspeaker codes from when she was a flight attendant. There were also specific things that they were trained to say if the plane was being hijacked.
For instance when knocking on the cockpit door, presumably at gunpoint or something they would have to say, 'Captain, I MUST speak to you immediately.' The 'MUST speak to you immediately' was code for, "We're being hijacked". She was an international flight attendant in the 70's and 80's when planes were routinely hijacked. "Take me to Beiruit."
For instance when knocking on the cockpit door, presumably at gunpoint or something they would have to say, 'Captain, I MUST speak to you immediately.' The 'MUST speak to you immediately' was code for, "We're being hijacked". She was an international flight attendant in the 70's and 80's when planes were routinely hijacked. "Take me to Beiruit."
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#25
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:25pm
OH SHUT UP!
stop your complaing my school has had 10+ lock downs due to bome threts this year!
stop your complaing my school has had 10+ lock downs due to bome threts this year!
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