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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can any teacher here tell me what's the protocol in lock down drills in pre-school or ES?  Are the kids told to hide and keep quiet?  And how is that instruction and the bases for those instructions given?  [/quote]
My ES son was told the drill was to keep them safe if someone comes into the school that isn't supposed to be there.  He didn't seem to think it was a big deal.[/quote]
Forgot to add, the instructions are to hide, like playing hide and seek, and be quiet.

I'm not a teacher, just a parent.[/quote]

Same with my child.  Though I would note, she then asked what would happen because there was at least one child in the classroom who was not generally quiet and she wondered what would happen to them if someone wasn't quiet.  :(  [/quote]

As a teacher, my answer to this is “then we’ll need to practice again.”

When I taught young kids, I’d tell them that the principal wanted us to practice being quiet, and that I had a game to make it fun, I’d crumple up a piece of red paper, and tell the kids we were going to pretend it was a campfire, and practice staying close and quiet as if we were listening to the animals in the dark.  At the end, I’d give each kid a marshmallow.[/quote]

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