our school has decided that it needs to practise an Emergency Lockdown Procedure. i go to a little hick school, wtf is going to happen? a bunch of rabid cows break in and chase students? honestly... 
Emergency Lockdown Procedure
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yep. we have to sit against a solid wall and not be visible in any windows. doors lock, and no one can be in the halls. it's pathetic
Damn Columbine is to blame for this! When I went to school we were lucky if we had a fire drill all year!
When I went to school we were lucky if we had a fire drill all year!At our school of 1,700 we still haven't had a fire drill all year.
Isn't it required by Texas Law or something? Appearantly not.
Or maybe they realized that unless the school is bombarded with napalm bombs from above, there is no way a two year old, five building campus will need to be evacuated in under three minutes.
<rant>
Last year, at a 9-10 school, we had fire drills every month. If the entire school of 1500 didn't get evacuated in under 3 minutes we would have to do it again. When it is may, and 95 degrees outside, it got rediculous. Not to mention, under what circumstances will a building like it burn so fast? In every hallway, there were firedoors that closed immediately on the sound of an alarm. The doors were incredibly heavy. Every classroom had doors that were about 75% as heavy, and the glass in the door windows (they were small, about 4"x18", were lined with reinforcing wire. All the hallways were tile. All the classrooms, except the science ones, were carpeted with fireproof carpet. The glass in the classrooms leading to the outside was shatterproof (I know so because once a thunder clap directly adjacent to the school and it shattered several windows, but they still maintained their form). Not to mention there were sprinklers in every class room and every ten feet in the hallway.
My point? Firedrills are useless.
Isn't it required by Texas Law or something? Appearantly not.
Or maybe they realized that unless the school is bombarded with napalm bombs from above, there is no way a two year old, five building campus will need to be evacuated in under three minutes.
<rant>
Last year, at a 9-10 school, we had fire drills every month. If the entire school of 1500 didn't get evacuated in under 3 minutes we would have to do it again. When it is may, and 95 degrees outside, it got rediculous. Not to mention, under what circumstances will a building like it burn so fast? In every hallway, there were firedoors that closed immediately on the sound of an alarm. The doors were incredibly heavy. Every classroom had doors that were about 75% as heavy, and the glass in the door windows (they were small, about 4"x18"
, were lined with reinforcing wire. All the hallways were tile. All the classrooms, except the science ones, were carpeted with fireproof carpet. The glass in the classrooms leading to the outside was shatterproof (I know so because once a thunder clap directly adjacent to the school and it shattered several windows, but they still maintained their form). Not to mention there were sprinklers in every class room and every ten feet in the hallway.My point? Firedrills are useless.
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