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Generational Differences
DS told me they practiced lock down drills at school this week. He then asked how we did ours in school. I explained we didn't have locked down drills, we had drills to prepare for the Soviets to drop a nuclear bomb on us (in retrospect sitting under our desks probably wouldn't have helped us much). That lead to a whole interesting discussion.
Re: Generational Differences
I grew up in the 80s in So Cal in between 2 Air Force bases. We had bomb drills and earthquake drills, funny in retrospect that they were the same thing - get under your desk.
Fortunately I don't think we were close enough to either base to be taken out in an explosion. Radiation might have been a problem though.
Are you serious???
I was in 1st grade in 1980... dang i'm old :-)
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same here
In elementary school-just fire drills.
In high school-fire drills and bomb threats (internal ones).
Damn. I was a junior in high school. (Class of 2000)
We didn't even have drills after that. We had a security guard (who was about 76 years old) and during the school day 2 sets of exterior doors were kept locked so you had to use the doors by the guard desk. That was it.
But, you know, all-girls Catholic school, so...
We actually had a junior transfer to my school my senior year. Not super unusual, since we had a few people transfer in and out every year, but the back story is. She had gone to a big suburban public school with about 2000 students in the high school. Similar to Columbine. The town was pretty nice, a little sleepy, parents with a decent amount of money who commuted into the city for the most part, good municipal services and schools. Her dad was scared shiitless after Columbine and promptly sent her to our school because, uh, Catholic girls don't shoot up their classmates.
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Talk about damn...I distinctly remember that shooting because I was bartending and it was all over the news, so my customers and I were talking about it all night.
My jr. high (they don't even have those any more, do they...) had a few lockdowns for gang related violence, but oddly no drills for it, I guess they figured we'd work it out on the fly. We had fire drills and tornado drills.
We only had fire and earthquake drills but we did have one for real lockdown due to a gunman holed up in an apartment a few blocks down. I was out of high school and in the military (where we had all sorts of fun drills) when Columbine happened so I have no clue if the school's I went to implemented lock down drills after that. My daughter's elementary and all the schools around here have lock down drills.
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We did all this too.
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we had flouride swishes too and lice checks in Mass.
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Isn't that strange DS had had one of those with their earthquake and fire drill day.
When I was in school we had bomb threat drills. But we had a basement bomb shelter in all our schools too. Must be b/c I'm from a state that held a lot of the bombs that were aimed at the Soviet Union.
We also did earthquake and fire drills - no lockdown drills, though.
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We only had fire drills when I was in school.
My mom, who started teaching around 1962, used to shuttle her class of 40+ second graders down to the basement of her school for nuclear bomb drills on a regular basis.
I was born in 1981. We had hurricane drills which seems pretty stupid as a hurricane isn't coming out of fuuking nowhere. I suppose it could have been a tornado drill but I distinctly remember tornados.
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Same here. I always wondered what we were supposed to do in Jr high/HS since the desks weren't big enough to get under.
y'all being in elementry/jr high in 1999 makes me feel old. The RHCP being nominated for the Rock n Roll hall of fame was doing a perfectly good job of that already tyvm.
1982 - just fire drills. We had nothing to fear in NYC at the time, I guess.
I learned the earthquake drill from Saved By The Bell and used what I learned when we had that freak earthquake here in August. Don't ask me what to do during a fire drill now, but I knew what to do during that earthquake thanks to Zack Morris.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home Dme too. this thread does make me remember the fire drills on the school bus though - opening the back door, jumping out, trying to land on my feet and not scrape my knees (I was pretty clumsy.) I haven't thought about that since the last time I did the drill...
born in 1979...all we had were fire drills. and jumping out of the back of the bus. i feel like every time we had to do that, i was wearing a frigging dress.
teaching now, though, we have fire drills (always on the coldest possible day of the month!), lockdowns/evacuations and "severe weather" drills in case of hurricanes or whatever. we had one of those today. we all stand in the hallway and make the kids stand facing against the lockers and away from windows and doorways. i'm not really sure how much protection that's going to afford them in case of an actual hurricane or tornado, but that's the drill.