My daughter's school is now performing routine "lock-down" drills

[Kber]

Like fire drills but to prepare for the chance someone shows up with a semi-automatic something or other.

Just got an e-mail from the principal about it.

Fucking fantastic.

[11 Bravo]

1. We had one this afternoon.

[msongs]

2. all guns need to be insured and the cost of school drills should be included in the price nt

[Kber]

8. Seriously!

This is what she is doing instead of learning math or history.

Or instead of just goofing off a bit?

Not how I would like my kid to be spending her time. Tragic that it seems to be necessary.

And especially tragic that this is our response to school shootings. We apparently cannot come up with anything better.

Oh - I'd rather they practice this than not, I guess. I'll put it in the same category as the talk I'll have to have about preventing rape when she gets older because god forbid we deal with this from the side of perpetrators instead of the potential victims.

I wonder if we should have something similar at work? Probably.

[Brickbat]

16. You really should have something like that at work, actually.

Fire drills, too.

[Journeyman]

3. I used to participate in routine "nuclear attack" drills. . .

America certainly likes to saddle its children with an array of horror filled images. . .

[MineralMan]

9. Me, too.

I used to have recurring dreams about looking toward the South from my small citrus farming community and seeing nuclear clouds over Los Angeles. I was just a kid, and it scared the crap out of me.

[Hardlyaround]

14. Looking toward the South?

Simi Valley?

[Journeyman]

19. My favorite memory was the teacher telling us to "face away from the windows, children". . .

"The greatest danger in a nuclear attack is flying glass."

Yeah. But molten glass in your ass is a-ok.

[Mika]

4. Duck and cover

[Dawson Leery]

5. With all the problems back then, I still would not opt to go to American schools today.

I graduated before the millennium turned.

[Nye Bevan]

6. My kids' schools have been doing these for years.

I think they are pretty sensible (obviously I wish they were unnecessary).

[Kber]

13. Oh I agree they are sensible

I'm glad they are doing it. I just hate it, is all.

[Hardlyaround]

7. Anyone remember the nuclear attack drills during the 50's and the 60's?

Duck under the desk, place head between legs and cover your eyes. What a joke.

At least with these lock down drills, there's a good chance of survival, not so much with a nuclear attack.

[MineralMan]

10. We used to say "Duck, put head between legs and kiss your ass goodbye."

That was in junior high. We were still doing those nuclear drills then. I'm really an old fart, it seems.

[Hardlyaround]

12. That's how I remember it also.

This was in high school, I'm really an old fart.

[AZ Mike]

11. If guns are an inalienable, unconditional right to citizens....

....then why does the NRA not try to arm elementary students? Are they not citizens (read: the right of the "people" to keep and bear arms....)?

Why have lockdown drills? All we need are good kids with guns. Right?

[Brickbat]

15. Ours have for years. Makes sense to me. A non-custodial parent who shows up angry,

a disturbed intruder, an escaped prisoner from the county jail a block away...never know who might turn up.

[bobclark86]

17. Personally, I'd be pissed if...

they were having them just "now" and not since the 1980s.

I entered school just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was in middle school during Columbine, and was in college for Virginia Tech. We had all kinds of drills for decades. Nukes, fires, guns, tornadoes, et al. Drills to go to the Elk's Lodge down the road, go stand in the playground, go huddle in the hallway, sit tight in your desk and draw the shades, get under your desk and turn off the lights, etc.

[callous taoboy]

18. We have one once a year where I teach.

Good stuff- huddling together with young children, all silent in the corner of the room, away from the door, while the police drill with us, going from door to door to see if they are locked, banging on the door to see if we'll screw up and open it.

[Laelth]

20. I now have to be buzzed into my daughter's elementary school.

The doors are permanently locked.

-Laelth

[RayOfHope]

21. I teach, we started doing these 12 years ago. n/t

[Jefferson23]

22. Open carry and concealed weapons allowed in your state?

[Boom Sound 416]

23. What do they have the kids do

Is it get them out or more like shelter in place?

[lynne]

24. 172 students died -

- in the Collinwood School fire in 1908. Children died in school fires until the schools implemented both fire drills and improved building codes. Thankfully, I am not aware of a deadly school fires in my lifetime.

Lock-down drills and drills for any type deadly situation or disaster are a good thing. I certainly hope my granddaughters school does the same thing.