5-6 years ago roughly maybe a bit longer
The lock down drills are pretty new. I don't remember having them till I hit high school. Only one I remember was when we were all joking around in the class room. The teacher told us we couldn't be next to window or we could get shot lol.
This began in 2006 or 2007 for me. It's possible that these drills have been happening for longer and younger grades weren't participating in them.
Whats the big deal? My high school did one a few years back before all the gun control hype now. They made us lock all the doors, sit quiet in a dark room, and the fun part, board up all the doors with desks.
On a side note, they told us if a student is locked outside during a shooting, the teacher isn't supposed to open the door for them, which is a direct violation of the no child left behind act.
Lockdown drills are old. The media is just trying to spin them as "shooting drills" I've even had a lowdown drill at college once.
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We did lockdown drills a lot more when I was in elementary because our elementary schools are literally right next to houses which meant that any old creep could walk onto campus.
I remember lockdown/Code Red drills started in 2003-2005 or so for California after a school shooting in either Ohio or California. What happened was all the students panicked at a school shooting resulting in a large number of casualties. As a result, the 'Code Red' protocol was implemented to try to protect students and teachers. You can't really shoot at what you can't see.
We've been having "intruder alert" drills in Canadian schools for as long as I can remember. PA system would signal an intruder alert, students get into the proper position, principle checks to see if doors are locked.
The drill should simple be to rush the shooter and get him to the ground, sure he might still kill a few kids but if they do nothing and wait for the cops the shooter will surly kill more than a few.
Then of course the news media gets to talk about heroic kids stopping a gunman and that gunman will face trial instead of getting to blow his own brains out.
Cannot think of a better message to send these wouldbe murderers and I might be considered a bit barbaric for being willing to throw the lives of a few children away for a chance at glory and to send that message to woodbe criminals but the cost is worth it imo.
Besides knowing my kid died a hero trying to prevent the death of others would make me proud, hiding behind a desk waiting to be the next victim not so much.
Besides I remember being in school and little boys can be fearless sadistic little shits, the gunman would most likely be stabbed to death with pencils long before the cops showed up.
Last edited by skrump; 2013-02-01 at 08:55 AM.
'MURICA! Omfg i cant stop laughing about the fact that a country like the usa needs to be prepared to get their schools fucked up by a gunman
Infracted: Please refrain from nation bashing. Furthermore, please refrain from using any derogatory variations of the word "America" (such as the one you used), they're automatically considered to be nation bashing at this point.
Last edited by Wikiy; 2013-02-01 at 07:58 PM.
"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ
I remember when Columbine happened, I was in my final year of high school. There weren't any drills at the time for that sort of thing, but soon after I graduated, my younger brother (who was still a student at the time) told me that there was an incident where someone (probably not a student - there was a lot of violence between my school and a rival school in an adjacent suburb) was seen running through the halls with a sword, and after that, they instituted lockdown drills.
Interestingly enough, in 2005, there was a shooting, and a few years later - 2008 I believe - there was a stabbing incident.
It's kind of disturbing to see violence escalating like that.
(Chinguacousy Secondary School, in Brampton, ON, in case anyone was wondering.)