I've always wondered why we all sit in one corner during a lockdown drill? It seems illogical that we would all sit in one corner of the room where you can usually still see out of the door. It seems like the worst way to prepare, considering if somebody with a gun does enter the room it's quite easy for them to gun down 30 some children in a corner.
Can anybody explain this way of preparation?
We do this in my school, I honestly thought we were the only school to do it because of how loving stupid it is
I mean you can
still see outside of the door in most classrooms (theres only like, 3 classrooms of a bout 30 that you can't see outside of the door during a drill.)
According to my principal (me and my friends practically interrogated her at lunch the day we had the drill. Maybe interrogated is too strong of a word, but you get my point.), we do it because: "The shooter won't be able to see you if you're in the corner of the room, and the door will be locked."
Problems I see with this:
1. With some of the room's size -> student ratio, there's almost always a way to see that somebody's inside.
2. The door being locked doesn't matter in the least, there's a glass panel on each of the doors. If somebody really wanted to get in, they could break the glass, reach in, turn the knob and walk in
3. Its stupid. In my opinion, people that are on the first floor should evacuate through the windows. Hell, after doing parkour for 2 years, I know that a drop from the second story wouldn't be fatal, and you'd be unscathed if you know how to roll
correctly4. When the drill starts, the lady in the office says over the announcements: "Code Blue!". If somebody was actually in the building shooting, I
highly doubt that she would say that over the announcements.
5. Just do what the public school in my area does, have some cops inside the school during school hours. Problem solved (for the most part)
/minirant
