<p>We have a dog. He sniffs all the time. The kids didn’t mind.</p>
<p>They happened 4-5x a year at my high school, that was in the 2003-2007 timeframe. 2500 students, posed as a practice ‘code red’ (active shooter, etc.) drill. </p>
<p>The best one was when we had a German foreign exchange student who started giving commands to the shepards in German!</p>
<p>Ok I was just shocked that they could take such drastic measures for something that happened outside of school hours and online. I don’t know what was said or if it was bullying or not. I have always monitored my children’s online activity, all the way back to instant message days, before MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. If I ever see anything inappropriate I take action but I had never heard of schools doing the same to that extent.</p>
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<p>Because, more often than not, if it’s happening outside of school, it’s happening in school as well.</p>
<p>Romani, I think I was there when a physics teacher actually did bring some kind of gun to school, but I think it was a BB gun or something. He’d been using it for a physics demonstration for years and it apparently hadn’t occurred to him that that sort of thing might not be okay anymore, and a student saw him with it and freaked out and called the police. You might be combining that story with the story about the teacher who forgot his hunting rifle was still in the trunk when he came to school. That might have been the same incident as the big drug sweep, I can’t remember. Apparently I’m getting older. </p>
<p>I don’t think we’ve ever had a lockdown that wasn’t a drill-- none while I was in school and I don’t remember any while my sister was in school after me either. There was a riot on the seniors last day when my sister was there, though, perhaps they ought to have! I hear about lockdowns at other local districts all the time, though, usually because of a bank robbery or similar in the area.</p>
<p>We signed the permission to drug test forms or one reason… It gave our kids an " out" if they ever needed it. They didn’t, as their peer groups weren’t the partying types, but we felt that extra measure of security was worth it. Saying NO is sometimes very difficult, and blaming mom and dad made it an easy out for them in a bad place. We also told them to blame us for whatever dumb behavior they knew they shouldn’t be participating in…"my parents would kill me if I did “insert dumb thing here.” Like I said, to my knowledge they never needed the excuses, but they were available if needed.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, a BB gun! That’s what it was lol. I think that was the year before I started. </p>
<p>Yes, the lockdowns were always drills. I was referring to the drug dogs coming in from tips. I should’ve been more clear. </p>
<p>I do feel like there was one real lockdown while I was there but I can’t remember what for…</p>
<p>Yes to the drug-sniffing dogs, but not often – maybe two or three times so far in many years of multiple children in high school. Each time it caused quite a lot of excitement among the students. Most of the students were disappointed that they didn’t actually get to see the dogs because the classrooms were locked down so that the dogs could go about their sniffing.</p>
<p>My kids’ HS doesn’t have K-9 searches, but I guess it would if drugs became a problem.</p>
<p>The school (and other local schools) have a lock-down policy any time there is a bank robbery or similar in the area in fear that the Perp may come to the school, take hostages, whatever.</p>
<p>We have canine searches and lockdown drills at our relatively safe and conservative suburban high school. Canine searches are once or twice a year and rarely find anything. These are covered in school district policy - no additional parental consent is required. The kids are kept in their classrooms during the searches to allow them to be conducted efficiently (without tons of kids in the halls). Formal lockdown drills are held separately, usually once a year. There was a bank robbery in town a few years back and the nearest schools went on lockdown as a precautionary measure until given the all clear.</p>
<p>My kids attend a rural public school, <800 kids K-12. To be able to drive or participate in any club/ec, students and parents must sign the drug search consent. The mobile lab comes ~4x/yr. The county sheriff brings dogs a couple of times per year. I live close to one of the top law enforcement dog training facilities. Interesting the German exchange student knew they were trained in German.</p>
<p>Both of my boys were tested at least once during HS–2003-2009. D is a jr. and has not been tested yet.</p>
<p>My kids’ highschool had a lockdown drill this week. AFAIK, there weren’t any drug sniffing dogs or locker searches in involved.</p>
<p>That really, really bothers me that to even participate in an EC you need to submit to random drug testing. what can possibly be the reason behind this? It seems WAY too easy to abuse and would turn people off to ECs IMO. </p>
<p>I honestly don’t know if I would’ve bothered with clubs and whatnot if I had to submit to random drug tests- no, I don’t do drugs.</p>
<p>No drug dogs or searches however we do perform breathalizer test before entering the post prom party.</p>
<p>No dogs for drug searches. A few incredibly stupid kids are busted each year for drinking or drugs while on school trips.</p>
<p>I would never sign permission for the school to do a random drug search. Way too much power to school administrations. If parents didn’t support this policy there is no way a public school could impose it.</p>
<p>My daughter’s non magnet public high school in NYC had lockdowns, mostly related to gang violence in,the school or surrounding area. No drug testing. I wouldn’t have allowed that. And no dogs, but the school has always had a large police presence because it has issues. Actually, many of the high schools on Staten Island have issues. Of course, they all have the random visits from the metal detectors.</p>
<p>Our 1000 +/- student public high school (suburban/rural bedroom community) which allegedly has a Zero Tolerance policy for drugs has not had the dogs come in. Here’s why. The principal, from her lips to my ear, said that she has had the discussion with the state police who have made it clear that once they enter the property, jurisdiction is theirs and if a dog hits on something, there WILL be an arrest. The principal has a problem with that. </p>
<p>This is the same principal who, when approximately 1/3 of the senior class showed up drunk on the last day of classes after an all-nighter (3 kids had to be transported to the hospital from school by ambulance) held an emergency assembly, told the kids she was “disappointed” in them, and then, LET THEM DRIVE HOME. She denies there is a drug and alcohol problem at our school, but my kids tell a very different tale. </p>
<p>My youngest is now a senior. I cannot wait to be finished with our public schools.</p>
<p>At the school my S went to they do lockdown drills. They do a K-9 search (random) about once a year. This particular school just had a real lock down and evacuation within the past couple of weeks due to grafitti found on a bathroom wall. The random K-9 search was a week later and prompted a lock down again because the dogs got some hits and it took longer than they thought. This particular lock down was to keep the kids out of the halls so the dogs could finish their job.</p>
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<p>There is not a NYC HS building that can even remotely hold 20,000 kids, or would even have 20,000 kids on the roster. I have no problem calling you out on this; Name the School. A building with 20,000 students today would be a high school that would be a complex campus that would have ~ 50 high schools located there (no such school in NYC). </p>
<p>Even when I was in HS long before you were in HS and when Stuyvesant was still on 15th Street, I attended the same HS as Oldmom’s D, which then and still is now the largest HS in the city. Even when Stuyvesant moved to Chambers street, it has never been a scan metal detector school (perhaps some scanning for a few days post 9/11 and 1993 bombings- yrs, because I lived in down there at the time and my kid attending the elementary school a block away) but no regular scanning like for example: Washington Irving, MLK complex and many others that I can name.</p>
<p>sybbie, we asked cobrat to give us the name to fact-check it. No takers. From what we’ve been able to dig up, no school had over 5k until recently.</p>