<p>My school has had like three lockdowns this week. Does anyone else go to a school like mine?</p>
<p>What's a lockdown?</p>
<p>^
obviously not lol</p>
<p>Not here. When I was in high school, there was only one lockdown.</p>
<p>A lockdown is when the school closes all its gates and entrances in order to prevent intruders from entering. You were supposed to pretend the school was vacant by having students hide under the desks and having the lights turned off. Also, it would be preferred that windows be covered so intruders can't peer inside.</p>
<p>We have lockdowns when there are drug busts. They make everyone stay in their classroom and bring in police officers and dogs to go through the halls and sniff out drugs, although last week they faked a fire drill instead so that everyone went outside without their bags and they busted people that way..</p>
<p>We had a lockdown a couple weeks ago. We all got into one corner of my English class, turned off all the lights, and had fun poking each other and asking whom we were touching while our teacher told us to shut up for about 10 minutes. Highlight of my day.</p>
<p>My middle school was in the middle of the ghetto. A pedestrian bridge stretched across the highway to connect the 'hood and the middle school; this bridge was usually populated by drug dealers. We had a lockdown at least once a month, and a wounded gunman ran across our campus after a shootout across the street. Three of my classrooms had bullet holes in the windows. </p>
<p>My high school was <em>extremely</em> diverse, with students from over 80 countries. Most students were lower middle class, and many were below the poverty level. There were usually several fights a week. One day police officers were posted on every hall because it was rumored that the Mexicans and the El Salvadorans were going to have a gang fight (they'd had skirmishes before). My freshman year, a girl slashed another girl in a fight using razor blades braided into her hair. The year after I graduated, two girls got in a fight, and one stabbed the other with a butcher knife.
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<p>Dang, ayden! I salute your courage. Do you go to school in Iraq??? :eek:</p>
<p>My school had a lockdown yesterday. It was called a Code Yellow because some guy said that he was going to bring a gun and start shooting at the student body. However, nothing happened; I don't even think they caught the guy.</p>
<p>Ayden, do you go to ISJ?</p>
<p>We had a bomb scare lockdown in October. A bomb was found nearby the school, and a couple of suspicious-looking objects were found inside the school, and so we were stuck in first period for 4.5 hours while the school administrators, the police, and a bomb squad were doing their thing. Interesting experience.</p>
<p>We had one once when there was a guy that walked into our school and into the girls bathroom. It was a couple of hours before the situation was resolved and for the rest of the week, guys and girls had to go to the restrooms in pairs.</p>
<p>My high school freshman year was crazy. We are not located in the middle of the ghetto, actually in the middle of NJ where there is nothing but malls and highways and developments. We had an evacuation everyday because of bomb threats. This lasted for about 3 months. One day we missed about 4 hours of school and the whole school stayed at the park next door. The gym teachers got baseballs and foot ball and basketballs and there were hackesack rings. </p>
<p>After a while they cought the kids giving in the bomb threat because they wrote one on the back of a letter that had all their info on it.</p>
<p>lol the only lockdown we have had was a practice one</p>
<p>edit: oh i forgot, we had a lockdown because a squirrel hunter came into our school ROFL</p>
<p>We had a scare on June 6 ("666 day")-- a kid who'd been expelled from my school threatened to come and shoot up the school with a bunch of his buddies. We had police officers around and all the doors were locked and nobody was allowed to go outside or enter certain areas of the school, and there were reports that the kid who made the threats was hanging out across the street that day, but there was no violence. A lot of kids stayed home, though. </p>
<p>We've had a couple bomb scares. One was a car parked outside the school on which somebody had written something including the word "bomb" (don't know what the message was exactly), but after they sent everybody home for three hours they figured out that there was no bomb, and the message was probably somebody's comment about the quality of the car (it turns out it had broken down in the parking lot; I think the owner came and got it--very sheepishly--after a while).</p>
<p>We had an actual lockdown once when there was a crazy guy driving around the county in an Astro van (why are they always Astro vans???) saying he was going to attack schools in the area. Finally he went into the neighboring county and the lockdown ended. Not a big deal.</p>
<p>Two weeks into this school year, we had a lockdown. See, our school NEVER practices lockdown drills cause we live in an urban area with the tech companies, malls, and developments. Everyone was really unprepared for this. Apparently, some drunk guy totaled two student cars after getting into an argument with another person in his (stolen) car. They had guns drawn at each other, the police had guns drawn around them... it was crazy. The worst part was that this was happening after school and all of the school gates were closed, leaving those students who went out to buy lunch locked outside of the campus. Everything turned out all right. My school practiced lockdown drills every single day for the rest of the week.</p>
<p>Last year, a fugitive ran into one of our school buildings to avoid the police and went up the second floor (what a dummy, he was running into a dead end). The school went into a half lockdown (only half the school was locked down) because it was taking place in only one building.</p>
<p>By the way, how do your schools go about announcing it? Because my school calls a nun (we don't even have nuns on campus) to come to the office... her name is really a saint's who's been dead for 200 years. That's how we spread the word of a lockdown.</p>
<p>That's really funny about the lockdown announcement at your school, kchen. They just announce it openly over the PA system at my school.</p>
<p>But doesn't that give it away? ;) I mean, we wouldn't want the bad guy to know what's going on.</p>
<p>Well, it'd have to be a pretty dumb bad guy to be fooled by a lockdown. I mean, if the gunman entered a school during school hours, they'd know there had to be students around somewhere. They wouldn't go in and think, "Oops, I guess it must be Saturday..." Anyway, all they say over the PA is that there is a lockdown in progress; they don't give directions as to what we are to do. We learn that beforehand, during drills. The purpose of the lockdown is to deprive the gunman of targets: he (or she) knows they're there, but the lockdown just prevents him (or her) from getting at them.</p>
<p>We have lockdowns at my school every once in a while because of our proximity to a military base.</p>
<p>We had one last year because a kid was apparently threatening to kill himself in one of the gym bathrooms...but it turns out that in reality he just didn't want to be caught skipping class with a knife, so he used that as an excuse (yes, ?!?!? worthy, I know).</p>
<p>They call the superintendent to the main office here...lol we were joking about other people they could call down after they had used that code up last year, like Elvis.</p>