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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was it a lock down? Or a secure the building? There’s a difference and the words matter A LOT. [/quote]
It was a lock down. My kid was in a closet[/quote]
Wow
That is so scary [/quote]
They also didn’t let them get backpacks so they had no keys or phone[/quote]

this is a big downside to the no phone policy. blame the loud parents who were so adamant about kids not having phones on them

in a lockdown, i want my kids to be able to text police and me[/quote]

in a lockdown, the last thing you want is for your child to be texting you and police. You want the kids attention on the teachers and you don't want notifications that are alerting someone to where your children are hiding. [/quote]

have your kids actually been in a lockdown. mine have and they and i were very glad they had their phones.[/quote]

In a massive situation like this, it isn't about just you and your kids. Hearing from your kids allays your anxieties; but during the lockdown, it is not necessarily the safest for your child or those around them. I'd rather be anxious from not knowing for a while longer than further jeopardize the safety of my kids or their friends and teachers.[/quote]

Again have your kids been in this situation? You don't really know what you're talking about. It is really helpful for their mental health for them to be able to text parents and loved ones. They also use their phones to find out what it going on. And to contact law enforcement.

And as to your point about notifications, they all know how to silence their phones. 
It sounds like you are pretty clueless. [/quote]

Excuse me? NP here. I huddle in the dark with your kids several times each year for these drills, and in order for all of us to get home to our families (heaven forbid), they can’t all be on their phones. You can suck it up for a bit and wait to hear from them; we can’t have 20-30 people on their phones during an emergency. And “as to your point” about how “they all know how to silence their notifications,” you have either waaaaay too much confidence in large groups of kids, or far too little knowledge about lockdown procedures.

And if you don’t like having this going on, help us make it so any unstable 18 year old can’t just walk in to a store and buy a weapon of war.[/quote]
I also huddle with kids for these drills. I’m under no illusion that they would ever save us in a true emergency with a determined attacker. In fact we’re letting them know we’re in the room by sliding that stupid green sign under the door. We’re clustered together in one spot. [/quote]

Well the green sign is stupid, but locks that lock from the inside do prevent shooters from getting inside a classroom and shooting, and huddling away from view helps too. To the best of our knowledge these drills help students follow these procedures. Do your classrooms lock from the inside?

If you want an article about it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/09/school-shooting-lockdown-drills-save-lives/[/quote]

APS just redid all the locks and keys and I believe that all classrooms now lock from the inside. Our kids’ classrooms do. The bigger problem is that each door opens outward, so there’s no chance of barricading it.[/quote]
Mine locks from the inside but I don’t have a key yet! It’s the push bar type of door[/quote]

I think it’s fair to say that the key/lock process has not been without hiccups. 😀

A friend of mine said her whole school was rekeyed, but nobody got keys to the new locks for a few weeks, except for a handful of people with master keys.[/quote]
We do have a button that locks all the doors (in theory)[/quote]

The big red button in the office?[/quote]

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