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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My one DC was in a portable last year.  I always felt very uncomfortable about the portable's security.  Like today.. what happened if a child really needed to use the bathroom, like they ate something wrong, and had diarrhea or something?  Would they let the student into the building to use the bathroom?  I hate portables.[/quote]

If the school was in a lockdown then no one would have access to a bathroom. Kids inside the building would not be allowed to leave their classrooms to go to the bathroom. I suppose the exception might be for K or Pre-K classes who have a bathroom inside their classroom. But in a lockdown they would be hiding and staying silent, not using the bathroom.

In a shelter they might contact the police to see if it's safe to bring everyone in a portable inside the building (for instance if the threat isn't in the immediate neighborhood). I remember taking my class to the media center one year during a shelter. I can't remember the circumstances.  I teach in one of the rooms on the exterior of the building and today my principal came through and had us combine classes with an interior classroom.

I've taught in portables and classrooms inside the building and I don't feel any safer in one vs. the other. It's all a terrible feeling of feeling like you're a target no matter what, honestly. [/quote]

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