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12-20-2012 at 9:28 AM
BunkinMama
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Safety Drills

After the tradgic events in Newtown CT my daughter (in kindergarten) practiced a lockdown drill with her school.

I am wondering when does a school practice safety drills?  This is for all drills, fire drill, tornado drill (in our area), earthquake drill, and lockdown drill?

It is sad that my daughter's school didn't practice a lockdown drill before what happened in Newtown.  I feel that this and the other drills should be practiced towards the beginning of the year, say within the first quarter.  Prevention, practice, and planning.


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12-20-2012 at 10:40 AM
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I *think* that they do fire and tornado twice a year.  I believe they practiced a lock down last year while the kids were in K, but honestly, I don't know 100%.


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12-20-2012 at 10:56 AM
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I teach and we do fire, tornado, "soft", and "hard" lockdowns every year.

Every ither year we do a full on lockdown with local police and swat team actually going room to room and securing the building one inch at a time.

I teach high school though.
 
12-20-2012 at 11:39 AM
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They do drills a couple of times a year, including lockdowns for incidents like in CT. There was a similar incident here some years back and they made it mandatory. It happened a few days after Columbine, a 14 year old went into a school with a shotgun and case of ammo. Killed one student, injured another. The school cop and gym teacher stopped him.

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12-20-2012 at 1:13 PM
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Our school does fire, tornado and lock drills throughout the whole school year starting in the 1st weeks of school.  I know by law they need to do a certain number of each throughout the year but I can't recall offhand how many of each.  My kids are at school over the summer with the school release program and they do them as well during those times.

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12-20-2012 at 1:16 PM
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ChicagoLaura:
I teach and we do fire, tornado, "soft", and "hard" lockdowns every year. Every ither year we do a full on lockdown with local police and swat team actually going room to room and securing the building one inch at a time. I teach high school though.

My kids are in PreK and K and we do this with the police/fire every year - our school has a great relationship with the different departments and the fire station happens to be basically across the street (but their is a church in between so you can't get directly from one to the other) and the fire truck makes multiple visits to school as well as do the police.  They do a ton of education about safety in general, not just in school but what to do at home, fire escape routes, all of that type of stuff (don't talk to strangers, etc).  The last lock down drill the police and fire were on scene and I believe for the last fire drill, they actually had fire trucks in the parking lot and they talked to kids about the different kinds of trucks.


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12-20-2012 at 4:25 PM
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At the school where I teach, we do a fire drill once a month.  We have 2 lockdown drills each year: one announced and one that's a surprise to the teachers and students.  Our tornado procedure is very similar to the lockdown, so it doesn't get its own drills.

Our school has promised to have a drill at a time when it's "not convenient" this year, such as during passing time between classes or during lunch or an assembly.  Part of me thinks, "Ugh -- what a bother."  But there's another part of me that thinks it would be a good idea to work out the kinks in a drill so that at least people have a clue in the event of a real emergency at an inconvenient time of day.

Ten years ago, one of the DC Sniper shootings happened about a 1/4 mile from my school.  Ugh.  That was a really fun time to be a teacher.  It was really stressful, but it really hammered home the need to take security seriously. 


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12-20-2012 at 6:54 PM
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At the school I teach at we do 2 drills a month. One of them is always a fire drill and others are different types of drills (evacuation drill in grade level order, lengthy fire drill--off the school property, lock down and some others.) We have been doing them for 18 months now. 

 
12-21-2012 at 8:38 AM
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DS's old elementary did "shelter in place" drills which would be appropriate for a tornado or suspicious person. They usually do this and a fire drill during the first month of school. Fire drills are monthly, SIPs happen quarterly.
 
12-23-2012 at 6:23 AM
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I teach--the state of Tx requires so many (2 fire, one all other) per semester.   We had done the lock down drill in October.  My DD goes to a different school and it sounded like they had not done a lock down yet...

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