Drills

[Unkotare]

At every school there is a practice of holding drills for things like fire alarms, natural disasters, and the terrible things that arrive via media far too often. So far early in this academic year there have been an unusual number of fire alarms and such. There will soon be a drill for more drastic circumstances. Different schools have different procedures for different levels of threat, but serious threats cannot be ruled out.

I've taught in a lot of schools in a lot of places, but it always comes back to the same unavoidable conclusion: if someone comes into my classroom with the intention of doing harm to my students, they have to come through me first. It won't be easy.

 

[MarathonMike]

At every school there is a practice of holding drills for things like fire alarms, natural disasters, and the terrible things that arrive via media far too often. So far early in this academic year there have been an unusual number of fire alarms and such. There will soon be a drill for more drastic circumstances. Different schools have different procedures for different levels of threat, but serious threats cannot be ruled out.

I've taught in a lot of schools in a lot of places, but it always comes back to the same unavoidable conclusion: if someone comes into my classroom with the intention of doing harm to my students, they have to come through me first. It won't be easy.

Does your school district allow you to carry a gun during school hours?

 

[White 6]

At every school there is a practice of holding drills for things like fire alarms, natural disasters, and the terrible things that arrive via media far too often. So far early in this academic year there have been an unusual number of fire alarms and such. There will soon be a drill for more drastic circumstances. Different schools have different procedures for different levels of threat, but serious threats cannot be ruled out.

I've taught in a lot of schools in a lot of places, but it always comes back to the same unavoidable conclusion: if someone comes into my classroom with the intention of doing harm to my students, they have to come through me first. It won't be easy.

I went to a high school named Lone Oak, in a suburb of Paducah, Ky, back in the early 1970s. We not only had fire drills, but bomb drills, as threats of both were called in during my junior year, by asshole pranksters. It takes a while to go through every locker, nook and cranny in a large high school. Not only were we new to it, but so were the authorities. We started calling them bomb breaks, and quit hanging around waiting for the Paducah and McCracken county bomb squads to finish their sweeps. Fire drills were short, but you could be standing around in a parking lot forever on the Bomb threats, so we'd slip out and leave, to return the following day.

 

[rightwinger]

At every school there is a practice of holding drills for things like fire alarms, natural disasters, and the terrible things that arrive via media far too often. So far early in this academic year there have been an unusual number of fire alarms and such. There will soon be a drill for more drastic circumstances. Different schools have different procedures for different levels of threat, but serious threats cannot be ruled out.

I've taught in a lot of schools in a lot of places, but it always comes back to the same unavoidable conclusion: if someone comes into my classroom with the intention of doing harm to my students, they have to come through me first. It won't be easy.

You have an AR-15 handy?
He does

 

[Unkotare]

Does your school district allow you to carry a gun during school hours?

Does your school district allow you to carry a gun during school hours?

Oh no, I live and work in MA. But somebody would need to kill me with the first shot if they came into my classroom.

 

[Moonglow]

At every school there is a practice of holding drills for things like fire alarms, natural disasters, and the terrible things that arrive via media far too often. So far early in this academic year there have been an unusual number of fire alarms and such. There will soon be a drill for more drastic circumstances. Different schools have different procedures for different levels of threat, but serious threats cannot be ruled out.

I've taught in a lot of schools in a lot of places, but it always comes back to the same unavoidable conclusion: if someone comes into my classroom with the intention of doing harm to my students, they have to come through me first. It won't be easy.

You'll be taking a shit when they come.

 

[Moonglow]

Why does no one have a tornado drills like we did in Oklahoma?

 

[ReinyDays]

I do remember being taught to hide under my desk when the Soviet mass of thermonuclear hell came down ...

 

[rightwinger]

I do remember being taught to hide under my desk when the Soviet mass of thermonuclear hell came down ...

We didn’t hide under our desks, we went down to the basement where there was a fallout shelter

 

[Unkotare]

I went to a high school named Lone Oak, in a suburb of Paducah, Ky, back in the early 1970s. We not only had fire drills, but bomb drills, as threats of both were called in during my junior year, by asshole pranksters. It takes a while to go through every locker, nook and cranny in a large high school. Not only were we new to it, but so were the authorities. We started calling them bomb breaks, and quit hanging around waiting for the Paducah and McCracken county bomb squads to finish their sweeps. Fire drills were short, but you could be standing around in a parking lot forever on the Bomb threats, so we'd slip out and leave, to return the following day.

Lock-down drills can get a little tense when actual firearms are found with students in class. My students know that I'm the first line.

 

[White 6]

Lock-down drills can get a little tense when actual firearms are found with students in class. My students know that I'm the first line.

Many school rooms have fireproof doors of 30 minute rating or more, set in metal outswing frames, requiring non-remove pin hinges, in modern construction. Unassisted mechanically, no human will ever kick that in, so lock the door and whoever is outside, stays outside. Is there a move to require a certain bullet ballistic rating? I've sold on contracts for schools, hospitals, hotels, but never had a ballistic rating specified for quote, but I am in West Tennessee, and left the wholesale side of that industry back in about 2008.

 

[Dekster]

Why does no one have a tornado drills like we did in Oklahoma?

I assume your schools had CD shelters under them. We had them once a year when I was in elementary school, but the basement was a CD shelter. After that, none of my schools had basements other than maybe a boiler room under part of it.