know what's sad?

kaylakim · March 2014

Things have changed so much since we were kids and it just makes me sad. My five year old just got home from school and I was asking her how her day was. She so nonchalantly started telling me about the lockdown practice they did at school. I asked what they do during this and she said they all hide in the classroom with their teacher and lock their door.

She makes it seem like no big deal but my heart breaks for my innocent baby. She has no idea what the reality is for these practices. I just want my babies to stay babies and protect them. They grow so fast!

Stacey099 · March 2014

Wow. I didn't know they did exercises like that.

blairwitch · March 2014

Nikitas school does them too. We had very dramatic earthquake drills at least once a year...at east I think that's what they were. Kids would pretend to be stuck in rooms or injured...teachers and staff would be bandaging them and everything. A lot more than the usual hide under your desk then meet by the flag pole .

[Deleted User] · March 2014

The user and all related content has been deleted.

Married071709 · March 2014

alimegan · March 2014

My school had drills. I lived in Dallas as a kid so it was more for tornadoes.

eta. It definitely sucks knowing Lo's are growing up in a different world than I did.

blairwitch · March 2014

somerandomchick said:
They did lockdown drills when I was a kid. And we've had actual lockdowns once or twice. Not for spree shooters running around (which is SUPER rare) but stuff like the police are looking for someone who robbed someone at knifepoint a few blocks away... And they just want to make sure he doesn't enter the school.

There's been drills for 'scary' stuff for a long time... Not sure if everyone here is too young for the duck and cover nuke attack drills or whatever? (Because a desk will totally help... Right...)

Sounds like our earthquake drills basically.

and the only time we ever had an earthquake during school hours the teachers passed it off as a low flying jet. School was maybe a mile from the air force bases air field so it wasn't that far fetched.

ilovemyducks21 · March 2014

We did those when I was a kid all the time too. They were routine. right up there with fire drills and earthquake drills. Never had an actual lockdown though.

Hilaboo86 · March 2014

Yep we do them yearly. Teaching 6th grade I had to explain the importance to them. They wanted to laugh and cut up. It breaks my heart that I had to share the PURPOSE of being quite and why. All in all the parents were supportive of my discussion. It tears my nerves up that something like this were to happen. God I would stand in front of my students and shield them, but a part of my mind would reflect Eva. Either way, as a teacher it's my duty to protect them and I would. I just pray this never happens. It doesn't hurt to prepare them though incase it does. Today's world SUCKS

[Deleted User] · March 2014

The user and all related content has been deleted.

ashie624 · March 2014

I dont ever want to let Zoe leave my sight.

School are supposed to be safe, and it scares me that theres chances of dropping them off and never seeing them again. So horrible.

Mom2bois85 · March 2014

Our school had lockdown codes in the tiny town we grew up in. There was yellow, red, blue and green. One was bomb threat another was student with gun another was outsider with gun and then there was a natural disaster one. Scary thing was that one day we had one for real...I was in high school and there was a school shooting at the jr high that my dad was a principal at. Of course while we were on lockdown all the rumors were that my dad had been shot! So scary! Fortunately he was not but unfortunately a student was

(

valstulas · March 2014

It's so sad that kids have to worry about things like that.

I remember the year Owen learned about 9-11. He said, "Mom, some bad men drove a plane into some towers. There was a daycare in one of the towers and some of the kids in the daycare died."

( He was 6 at the time.

Want a personalized experience?

know what's sad?

Re: know what's sad?

Choose Another Board

Search Boards