Elementary School Emergency Drills
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Anonymous
| Our MCPS Elementary sent out a notice saying that they are spending the entire school day tomorrow doing one safety drill after another all day (except for lunch and recess). This seems like a colossal waste of a day. Is this normal? They are calling it "Safety Day". I thought these drills were usually spread out throughout the year. Will the kids even remember one drill from the next later on if they just do this all day? |
Anonymous
| Which school is this? I don’t believe it. |
Anonymous
| That isn’t the whole day. |
Anonymous
| That’s only an hour. |
Anonymous
What's only an hour? |
Anonymous
Not OP, but it to me it looks like the whole day minus recess and lunch as stated. That does seem crazy. |
Anonymous
| Don’t you have anything else to do? Of course it won’t be an entire day. Per usual MoCo parents see the worst. |
Anonymous
| 10:15 to 11 am and 2:30 to 3 in the afternoon. 45 minutes and 30 minutes. |
Anonymous
NP. Each drill is 15 minutes out of 4 hours. There’s plenty of time for instruction as well as lunch and recess. Wish my MS would do this! |
Anonymous
| The times are listed (seems not safe to announce when the kids will all be outside) but anyways, 10:15-11am and then 2:30-3pm |
Anonymous
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My kids' school did this last week. One day there was 4 drills, second day 2. Done for the year.
Who cares? What's the big deal? |
Anonymous
| Seems to go against the spirit of the rules which is to spread the drills out so kids can learn the routines |
Anonymous
| This makes sense. There are several different types of drills that schools need to cover before an actual emergency arises. They are not covering the same drill over and over to meet the quota. There is a fire drill, a lockdown, a lockdown with options drill, an emergency weather drill, etc |
Anonymous
I mostly agree - except elementary schools don't do "lockdown with options". Unless we're taking "anklebiters" to a new extreme. |
Anonymous
We do two different versions of lockdown. Lockdown when they need the kids out of the hallways but there isn't a human danger. We do this if an ambulance is coming to protect the kid's privacy and make sure they can get to them quickly. We also do this before we move kids to a room without windows in a tornado warning. In theory, we'd do this for some kind of chemical release. There is also lockdown stay silent and hide. |