This didn't happen when I was at school...
Posted by: Exiled Highlander on 18 December 2008
I've been working away from home in London for the last 11 weeks and last week my daughters High School in Naperville, IL (where she is a Senior or 6th Year equivalent in the UK) was placed on lockdown after a pupil was reported as having been seen with a handgun. We had talked about it but she hadn't given me all the details and last night she sent me this email giving me themore insight into what went on.....ignore the semi text speak in the message...
hey, so i thought i would tell you what happened at my school on Wednesday of last week. so school starts at 7:25am and lets say 10-15 mins after school started, in my first class an announcement came on saying "teachers i am issuing a hard lock down" (hard lockdown: classroom lights out, door locked and sit against a wall out of sight of any window or door). so the first hour we were all freaking out including the teacher, and then it came to the 2nd hour of the lockdown and we had started to relax a little bit, 3rd hour into it and we were updated over an email saying that they were still looking for the person and all the kids were texting their friends and parents allow we were really only supposed to text parents so i had texted mum telling her " we are in a lockdown situation but we are fine". so my friend Corrine who was in the orchestra room had texted me saying that they were searching black males because that’s what the police had narrowed the search to. i must add that because of it being a hard lockdown we weren't allowed to leave the room not even to go to the bathroom. 4th hour came and the police finally came into our room which is the closest to the front door, and they came in without knocking and we freaked out cuz we thought it may be the intruder and they turned on the lights and 3 policemen came in and had guns out and pointed towards everyone and said " everyone hands up and don't move. hands out at your side and don’t talk". all the policemen were male, 2 of which searched everyone’s back packs (and no they didn’t find anything in mine hahaha), and then we were all searched including our teacher. After the 5th hour into this whole ordeal the police came back and took a group to the bathroom but only people that were in a dire emergency. i was one. So originally we were going to go to the main office bathroom, however, they had 3 sniffer dogs around and so we had to follow an officer to the nearest bathroom. he said " i don’t want you to feel that your privacy is being obstructed but i need to keep the main door open so that we know who is in there so that no one else could go in" so after we were all done we were escorted back to our classroom. within half and hour of coming back the whole situation was done. i feel as though i was in a movie. it didn’t feel real what so ever but it was definitley an eye opening experience. and the officer that had escorted us to the bathroom told us that he was going to go out first and see if there was any dogs on the loose and there wasn’t but he said that if we just so happen to meet up with a sniff dog, STAND STILL, DO NOT MOVE, AND DO NOT SAY A WORD OR SCREAM, cuz sniff dogs are trained to go after someone who runs away. In the end we were told that the kid that had this weapon was a sophomore and he had a BB gun. So i just thought that i would share that with you and it was for sure an eye opening experience. Talk to you later, Love Ruth
A little sobering insight into modern day school life....
Jim
hey, so i thought i would tell you what happened at my school on Wednesday of last week. so school starts at 7:25am and lets say 10-15 mins after school started, in my first class an announcement came on saying "teachers i am issuing a hard lock down" (hard lockdown: classroom lights out, door locked and sit against a wall out of sight of any window or door). so the first hour we were all freaking out including the teacher, and then it came to the 2nd hour of the lockdown and we had started to relax a little bit, 3rd hour into it and we were updated over an email saying that they were still looking for the person and all the kids were texting their friends and parents allow we were really only supposed to text parents so i had texted mum telling her " we are in a lockdown situation but we are fine". so my friend Corrine who was in the orchestra room had texted me saying that they were searching black males because that’s what the police had narrowed the search to. i must add that because of it being a hard lockdown we weren't allowed to leave the room not even to go to the bathroom. 4th hour came and the police finally came into our room which is the closest to the front door, and they came in without knocking and we freaked out cuz we thought it may be the intruder and they turned on the lights and 3 policemen came in and had guns out and pointed towards everyone and said " everyone hands up and don't move. hands out at your side and don’t talk". all the policemen were male, 2 of which searched everyone’s back packs (and no they didn’t find anything in mine hahaha), and then we were all searched including our teacher. After the 5th hour into this whole ordeal the police came back and took a group to the bathroom but only people that were in a dire emergency. i was one. So originally we were going to go to the main office bathroom, however, they had 3 sniffer dogs around and so we had to follow an officer to the nearest bathroom. he said " i don’t want you to feel that your privacy is being obstructed but i need to keep the main door open so that we know who is in there so that no one else could go in" so after we were all done we were escorted back to our classroom. within half and hour of coming back the whole situation was done. i feel as though i was in a movie. it didn’t feel real what so ever but it was definitley an eye opening experience. and the officer that had escorted us to the bathroom told us that he was going to go out first and see if there was any dogs on the loose and there wasn’t but he said that if we just so happen to meet up with a sniff dog, STAND STILL, DO NOT MOVE, AND DO NOT SAY A WORD OR SCREAM, cuz sniff dogs are trained to go after someone who runs away. In the end we were told that the kid that had this weapon was a sophomore and he had a BB gun. So i just thought that i would share that with you and it was for sure an eye opening experience. Talk to you later, Love Ruth
A little sobering insight into modern day school life....
Jim
An interesting insight Jim.
Your daughter sounds like a nice sensible person.
Your daughter sounds like a nice sensible person.
quote:Originally posted by Exiled Highlander:
Jase
Life at Fernielea Primary and Aberdeen Grammar was dull in comparsion! :-)
Cheers
Jim
I don't believe that for a minute
ah we used to have drug dogs in our school at least once a month for locker searches what dumbass would put drugs in there locker. leave it in your car.
quote:everyone hands up and don't move
quote:How is this possible?
By doing the opposite of putting your hands down & moving.
quote:lol. no honest it wasn't me.
There speaks a man with a guilty conscience! Call for the prisoner wagon! 