Your daughter is mistaken (or was absent during the drills). All FCPS schools have at least two lockdown drills during every school year. If you want to know when these drills occurred, then you need to call your school's front office.

We've told our kids that if they can get out of a window and run to the woods, they should do that. Otherwise, hide behind someone or something big.

She probably doesn't now that's what it is. They are required to do two, I think, every year.

Our elementary in FCPS does them. I tried to pick her up once while was going on (it was a previously scheduled pick up) and I couldn’t get her until the drill was over.

My son is in a MoCo school in Bethesda and he said they practice locking the door, hiding in the closet and closing the blinds.

They used to do drills once a year. Even the drill itself can cause anxiety for some kids.

But I have been reading lately that the advice has shifted from locking down in a single room, to getting out of the building and running away so maybe they are trying to redo their plans

This is what you are choosing to focus on? Good grief.

The best thing is for your child to run if they can. But schools don’t want hundreds of kids running off campus so they can’t say that. I told my kids if they can run and hop the fence to do exactly that and I wouldn’t get mad if they get in trouble. I don’t want my kids to do active shooter drills because they are told to stay in a class where they are sitting ducks.

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Anonymous wrote:Lockdown drills are theater and will not/do not make your child more safe at school. Please don't pick this as your issue to be mad about.

Amen. So pointless and stress inducing.

+2. These lockdown drills are really anxiety inducing for some kids.

OP here. If you are new to the school and don’t know the procedures it is useful. Students at schools where there were actual shootings reported the drills were helpful because they knew what to do.

Anonymous wrote:Lockdown drills are theater and will not/do not make your child more safe at school. Please don't pick this as your issue to be mad about.

Amen. So pointless and stress inducing.

They might call it something else.

Lockdown drills are theater and will not/do not make your child more safe at school. Please don't pick this as your issue to be mad about.

Anonymous wrote:We are new to FCPS and DD reports they have not had a single lockdown drill at her school all year. Is this normal? I’m pissed.

What? I would be happy - its not going to help and will just instill fear in the child.

We are new to FCPS and DD reports they have not had a single lockdown drill at her school all year. Is this normal? I’m pissed.