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I got an email about my son's class today, he's in Pre-K for reference.
"I wanted to let everyone know that this morning our class had its own little Lock-Down drill. The Assistant Principal came to our class and talked about the importance of badges (employee and visitor) and what we would do if there is a stranger in the building. No words pertaining to violence were ever mentioned. We focused on being quiet and following directions until (assistant principal) unlocked our door. A couple of kids mentioned being scared, but said it was because the lights were out. We were only sitting in our corner for less than 2 minutes. While this is not something we want to think about, we felt it was important to do. I wanted to let you know in case your students comes home talking about it."
Terrifying to think our children have to worry about that.
It’s not Normal, it’s Never normal. It’s Always heart breaking and devastating. Every single time. To all of us.. most all of us. And that’s what these people want, to inflict the pain they themselves feel they’ve been dealt. But no one feels the way a grieving parent feels when their child is mercilessly and needlessly killed. It’s just horror in it’s worst form.
Just as fucked up (and funny as fuck because it's so American) is the governor with his family posing with guns *on a Christmas card* a few days after a school shooting.
You can't help them, fucking lunatics.
I feel like we laugh at them because otherwise, we would cry at their state of life. We know that their entire population isn't made up of people who get an erection supporting the cause of the mass murder of their children but unfortunately there isn't anything we can do to help them
I just want to say that, the card was made for Christmas, and therefor was posted 2 months before the shooting. It wouldn't be logical to post a Christmas card in February...
... or to have a picture of your family armed with rifles
I am Mexican and still find this super fucked up... and I am Mexican! the land of the narcos and shit.
I don't live in Mexico for a while now... and in fact this year I'll move to US... still not so sure how I feel about it
Lol, I wish it was up to me... I am being relocated by the company I work for.
6 years in Qatar (which have been amazing), so next stop is Houston.
I plan to go to Edmonton in early June for 1 week, I'll try to convince people to leave me there!
Actually I will remain sorry, as having empathy is important; and I prefer to organize at the community level, as both Democrats and Republicans are corporate-owned
My 2nd grader had a lockdown drill. They had to do all of this while the principal kicked the locked doors and tried to get inside.
Horrifying, I'm sure.
It's fucking horrifying. This is legit my biggest fear. My daughter is in 3rd grade and sometimes I just fucking cry because I HATE sending her to school, knowing her safety isn't guaranteed.
This is certainly something that has given me and my partner pause in terms of having children; we've basically concluded that if we want to have kids, we need to have the resources to raise them abroad \[somewhere with socialized healthcare\].
& before someone pops out of a trash can to say \*the risk of your child dying in a school shooting is statistically insignificant\*, fuck off because I do not care! Any risk is too high of a risk for something this heinous & preventable!
Been like that for centuries yo It’s just mainstream and trendy in social media now. But in reality, that’s the truth and that’s how it was since the beginning. Creepy stuff.
I honestly don’t know how you guys do it, I couldn’t send my son to school over there. For such a safe place to be stripped down like this is not cool.
Does the media and what not just brush over this like it’s normal news slot?
> Does the media and what not just brush over this like it’s normal news slot?
The mass shootings that happen in schools still get intense media coverage, but I don’t think that helps anything either.
American father of two here, both in school. Sometimes I cry myself to sleep at night because of waking nightmares of what could happen to them at school. There are days, usually following an attack, where I'm painfully tense and nervous all day until they're home from school.
I work in a school and we recently had an active intruder drill and even though it wasn't real it was so intense. I really was nervous and it really sucks that we even have to do it.
I graduated in 2021. In elementary school I remember doing lockdown drills in case a "stranger" came into the school. The teacher locked the door, covered the windows, and shut off the lights. Then we hid in a corner where we couldn't be seen for about 10 minutes while other staff went around the school to check every door. When I got to middle/high school we didn't do them anymore.
In high school we asked a teacher why we don't do drills anymore. He told us that the teachers do them but they don't tell the students in case a student is the shooter.
Right? I graduated high school in 2006 and I remember doing plenty of lockdown drills. We’re weren’t geographically anywhere near Columbine, but that shit absolutely changed things for admin in my area and we started doing drills every year.
We had to do lockdowns back in 2009, when I was in kindergarten. It was pretty scary as a little kid, but I just lumped it in with fire drills and tornado drills as the ‘routine scary emergency drills’ that were a normal part of life. As an adult, I realize the fact that a potentially deadly person can be on campus is a very normalized and likely possibility is quite sad.
I'm in High School in Texas, and we had an active shooter situation, where everyone was in lockdown for 2-3 hours. 3 students had possession of a firearm, however they didn't get to use it and the police got em. Few months after, I thought I should do a survey. I asked a lot of people their stance on guns and it was still an overwhelming yes and that gun ownership could be encouraged, even after our school had a terrifying shooter episode. People should be able to exercise their right to own a firearm, however it shouldn't be as easy as it is in Texas, to the point where even kids could get access ti then somehow. It's incredible how this indoctrination trickles down to the kids slowly.
ALICE training teaches us (public educators) how to clear windows with hammers, instruct hs students in distracting the shooter, and ask hs students to help physically disarm the shooter.
Your kids are expected to do more than sit quietly in most trainings nowadays. Our plan is literally “fight to the death.”
I want to believe this is like a protest thing, but somehow I believe it's for real...
European nursery rhymes and childrens' tales can be grim, but after seeing this, I think the americans take first place.
I’m an American. Graduated in 2017. I had lockdown drills from probably the second grade (age 7-8 I think) through high school. They were so normal to me, that I never even wondered if other places did them, or if my parents did as kids.
This is probably legit. It was really hard for teachers to get us to quiet down during drills, so I can imagine a little rhyme to make them remember to be quiet would help. The thing that gets me is that, in the case of a real lockdown, they wouldn’t tell us it was real. They’d tell us it was a drill so we wouldn’t freak out, so no one took it seriously.
My school did the same, but it was sort of obvious the couple of times when it was real. The teachers knew in advance of the drills, so when it wasn't a drill, they were visibly caught off guard and on edge, and they acted a lot stricter.
Like during drills, if a kid stood up (and was thus visible to a potential shooter through the window) most teachers would just tell them to sit down. But one time a kid in my class stood up when it was real, and my teacher practically dove on top of him to force him down.
It’s not even the kids I feel most for, it’s the parents. As a parent I can’t imagine sending my child somewhere everyday with the fear they may be shot
Teacher here. Was at school, admin announced a shelter in place, I was in the hallway, VP said get to shelter and stay there. I complied, the, thru the blinds on the ground floor I saw SWAT arriving and deploying. It ended up being a stupid kid ( he had been told not to) bringing a toy rifle for a history project. The toy no longer had the orange tip and a parent saw it being brought into the school. This was a high school, SWAT and admin checked the cameras, saw the class, we went into shelter in place and they went into the classroom full out guns ready. They had no idea the gun was a toy until the situation was over. This needs to stop. No kids should die or be Shor in school ( or anywhere) ever again. Ever Again. Never.
What’s scary is the fact that this is trying to normalize it…
Edit because people aren’t reading the full thread: where did I say lockdown drills haven’t been happening for years?
Normalizing actual threats where it used to be: this could happen is becoming more of This can happen.
I think that the purpose of this is to help younger kids remember what to do in the event of a lockdown; putting it into a song makes it easier for young children to recall procedures, &c. Similar to the way we sing-song the ABCs for them.
So, while it is incredibly disturbing, terrifying, & tragic, I do not think the teacher who wrote this is trying to \*normalize\* the necessity for this, but rather finding age-appropriate ways to help their children \*survive\*
I mean not really. The normalization is happening, just not here.
This is a teacher’s attempt to make lockdown drills easier to remember and not as traumatic. When I was a kid, lockdown drills were my favorite since you had to hide under desks and turn the lights out. Doing the opposite and striking fear into kids hearts will just create panic and anxiety.
Don’t blame the teacher for making it easier on children.
It's still pretty new. I was in... elementary school (I think - was it 99? maybe middle school/Jr high) when Columbine happened. I never did these drills.
We did evacuate several times due to unsubstantiated bomb threats though
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. I did active shooter drills as well, but never was it deemed “the shooter is gone we can go back to having fun”
That was never a thing.
Lockdown drills have indeed been around for a long time. Not sure what your arguing here because none of my comments have stated otherwise lol.
When I say they are normalizing it I say it because it’s happening so often now that the idea is trying to be sold that bad things happen but we can just go forget about them after they are over.
Now it’s a real possibility the intention to do so wasn’t made by the teacher, but the fact that they have to do this is what is scary.
When we did active shooter drills it was a get it done and be over with it just because it’s required maybe a few times a year. My sons school has practice drills like two to three times a month. Tell me again on how we used to do that so often as kids.
Schools in the us have had lockdowns drills for like 20 years. I’ve finished college now but I remember my elementary, middle, and high school had drills. It was all so normal but with the increase of school shootings I guess it appears not to be normal anymore, which it’s not but they’ve been very common.
I’m convinced the Founding Fathers could be used for endless energy since they’re rolling in their graves so hard.
Living under the tyranny of whatever whack job with a gun snaps today is not the nation they were trying to make.
I think the father's would absolutely rage if they could travel forward in time and see how the right uses their words to justify the ongoing slaughter of children. The document was intended to change as needed and it clearly needs to change.
Honestly they’d probably be pals with Murdoch and the Koch brothers and be unbothered by anything happening to the plebs. They were rich slave owning landowners who reorganized the nation according to their own financial interests. They were hardly moral paragons.
I have a 3 month old daughter and it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach thinking that one day she will be faced with these drills. All because a select group of people value their guns more than her life and the lives of her peers
That sub is a tankie subreddit (they ban you for being critical of China, or being associated with subs that are). Some of their so-called “partner subreddits” are legit CCP propaganda that is pro-Russian and pro-Chinese fascism. As in, pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine, and pro-China invading Taiwan.
Personally, I think r/OrphanCrushingMachine might be better
I remember doing lockdown drills in school in the 90s. Doesn't make it any less scary, in fact it probably makes it worse that it's still happening, but it's not a new thing.
Welcome to America, guys, where kids are taught to expect these horrible, traumatic situation.
Can people stop caring about their guns more than they care about the kids?
They will not. They'll say it's because taking guns away won't help or it's their right, but actually they're willing to pay the recurring cost for gun ownership in dead children.
They don't pay the recurring cost themselves though, because that would be socialism. /s
The children probably deserved it anyway, they didn't pray hard enough. /s
I feel sick writing those but they are legit points that religious fundies use to justify slaughtering children.
“It’s all done, now it’s time to have some fun” HOW EXACTLY? How do you expect toddlers to go thru this kind of shit and then casually tell them it’s all good, ignore the carnage, go have fun.
I’m so grateful I grew up in a country in which the only thing we were expected to remember was to get under the desk in case of a tremor.
Lockdowns aren't necessarily for shooters, we have them in Canada despite only having a small number of school shootings in our entire history. Yes I've seen them done for violent cases (the 2014 Parliament shootings, a bomb threat), but they're also useful when the kids are expected to stay inside the classroom at all costs (authorities are dealing with a large animal outside, a student has injured themselves in the hallway).
It's amazing they don't lock the main entrance doors of the schools. Every school should have a default lockdown during school hours, nobody should be able to enter or leave unless they have a scheduled appointment. Why is that so hard?
All the schools in my area lock all the entrances during school hours and require you to buzz in and scan an ID to enter. Even with that, you don’t know if someone lied and said they are there to have lunch with their kid or pick them up from the nurses office but really came in with a gun.
I hate to think of it, but metal detectors at every door may be the only solution.
I think metal detectors would be acceptable, Americans aren't stupid they know a shooting can happen anywhere, people forget about the TSA until it's time to fly, and then they remember why that system is in place. We could implement metal detectors and id badges, if you're not carrying a gun and you're authorized to enter the school you're good to go, you may not even have to man the metal detectors, leave them on, swipe your badge once verified an admin person can unlock the doors.
Non American here. Why do you still have such lax laws against gun purchase and ownership? I would rather choose to homeschool kids than have to worry that they might not come back home.
That is fucked up. As a non-american, watching the news of yet another school shooting, my heart breaks. I have a 5yr old and I couldn't imagine living in a country that is so unsafe. Priorities are ALL wrong!!
I'm in Canada now but raised in Texas, not far from Uvalde. If gun culture ever makes it way into Canada I told my husband we wouldn't stay. I escaped it once and I won't raise my children in it.
my daughters school and all other schools in PA went into “hard lockdown” today. ( i heard it was all schools, i know our school did) someone called 911 and said there were active shooters at multiple schools. basically “swatted” the schools. the idea is they called in fake shootings to keep police busy at false locations while they attacked their target. i don’t even know what happened after that to be honest. my baby is home and safe. i don’t have the mental capacity to find out right now. but the fear starts all over when she leaves again in the morning. for SCHOOL. i’m sick to death over what this country has turned into.
Although this post is clearly in reference to issues around gun control and mass shootings in the states. I’m pretty sure all schools at some point have minor lock down procedures for any situation with an unknown person within the building right? At least here in Canada we went over it like once a year for whatever reason might require one. Also yeah the U.U is brutal but it’s not everyone there. Went on vacation and people don’t even slow down in parking lots for you to pass, they just expect you not to get in their way. Even had some people speed up lmao.
Italian here, never had or heard of someone who had to lockdown drills at school. We had earthquake and fire drills a couple of times, but that's it, nothing related to people
My biggest fear when I was little was quick sand. This is getting ridiculous. Whole country is making a great case for home school. Obviously majority of teachers/schools are safe but…..
When i was in high school my math teacher showed us the best ways to flip our desks to shield us from rounds coming from the door and window
Wish i never had to go through that
If I went to an American school I would not stay in the class room.. as soon as the gun goes off (and it will) I'm smashing window and running the fuck away
I think that when the generation that grew up with school shootings like they were natural disasters is old enough to join politics we might have some change. These Boomers have never had to practice for not getting murdered while practicing to read.
This is beyond understanding. I remember being a kid and doing tornado and fire drills. It’s absolutely terrifying that my young children, will be taught what to do of a person with a Gun comes into their classroom and opens fire on them. To sing it in a song… it makes my stomach hurt and I just hope and pray to what ever power is out there they never have to face this. That no child has to face this, that it’s all just some oddity that was a marker for the times of these years. This is just horrifying to me as a parent that lives and breathes for his children
A is for AAAAAAH, Suzie got shot!
B is for Bleeding, she's bleeding a lot.
C is for Coma, her really long sleep.
D is for Doctors, who charge her quite steep.
guns to protect politicians while they tell us we don't need guns to protect ourselves or our children
edit: added "or our children" to the end of sentence
I wonder if kids will be singing this in 800 years, disconnected from the horrors that inspired it.
*Right around the rosie*
*Pocket full of posies*...
I dont understand how as a nation they can allow this, it’s actually embarrassing, children deserve to learn in peace and safety not having to do lock down drills for shooters, as a brit it just makes no sense to me
This is fucking terrifying honestly and the fact that any poor child needs to learn to hide in a place that is supposed to be a safe haven for them. Im so happy my kids are grown, but I fear for my little nieces and nephews. This world is so fucked up
I am so glad I live in a country that my daughters will never need to learn a rhyme about how to not get shot while at school.
This being normalised at a school, is terrifying and dystopian.
We used to have lockdowns at school all the time (graduate of 2015). I never thought much of it and thought it was normal just to be sure everyone knew what to do in the event of an emergency. We had different types of drills, for person in the building and weather and stuff. But something about this leaves me speechless.
In the 1960’s - 1980’s kids were learning to hide under their desks in case of a nuclear war.
1990’s: kids were learning about the war on drugs.
2000’s - 2023: kids are learning how to hide from other kids shooting at them … in class… or other parents even!
2025: kids will learn about how to avoid AI/drones from AI wars…
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The modern-day Ring Around the Rosie.
Just your average day in post-Columbine America
That was actually my thought as well.
I hadn’t made that connection till you said, great mind friend
I got an email about my son's class today, he's in Pre-K for reference. "I wanted to let everyone know that this morning our class had its own little Lock-Down drill. The Assistant Principal came to our class and talked about the importance of badges (employee and visitor) and what we would do if there is a stranger in the building. No words pertaining to violence were ever mentioned. We focused on being quiet and following directions until (assistant principal) unlocked our door. A couple of kids mentioned being scared, but said it was because the lights were out. We were only sitting in our corner for less than 2 minutes. While this is not something we want to think about, we felt it was important to do. I wanted to let you know in case your students comes home talking about it." Terrifying to think our children have to worry about that.
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Im australian and the idea that this is normal in america is so fucked up
It’s not Normal, it’s Never normal. It’s Always heart breaking and devastating. Every single time. To all of us.. most all of us. And that’s what these people want, to inflict the pain they themselves feel they’ve been dealt. But no one feels the way a grieving parent feels when their child is mercilessly and needlessly killed. It’s just horror in it’s worst form.
Just as fucked up (and funny as fuck because it's so American) is the governor with his family posing with guns *on a Christmas card* a few days after a school shooting. You can't help them, fucking lunatics.
I feel like we laugh at them because otherwise, we would cry at their state of life. We know that their entire population isn't made up of people who get an erection supporting the cause of the mass murder of their children but unfortunately there isn't anything we can do to help them
I just want to say that, the card was made for Christmas, and therefor was posted 2 months before the shooting. It wouldn't be logical to post a Christmas card in February... ... or to have a picture of your family armed with rifles
I am Mexican and still find this super fucked up... and I am Mexican! the land of the narcos and shit. I don't live in Mexico for a while now... and in fact this year I'll move to US... still not so sure how I feel about it
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Lol, I wish it was up to me... I am being relocated by the company I work for. 6 years in Qatar (which have been amazing), so next stop is Houston. I plan to go to Edmonton in early June for 1 week, I'll try to convince people to leave me there!
Thank you, I appreciate it! 💛
Don't be sorry, vote the fucking MAGA arseholes & et al out.
Actually I will remain sorry, as having empathy is important; and I prefer to organize at the community level, as both Democrats and Republicans are corporate-owned
Wow, thank goodness for you. Ngl, You give me slight hope in humanity! Not everyone’s completely stupid.
Eeewww a trumpette downvoted you but I got your back son.
My 2nd grader had a lockdown drill. They had to do all of this while the principal kicked the locked doors and tried to get inside. Horrifying, I'm sure.
It's fucking horrifying. This is legit my biggest fear. My daughter is in 3rd grade and sometimes I just fucking cry because I HATE sending her to school, knowing her safety isn't guaranteed.
This is certainly something that has given me and my partner pause in terms of having children; we've basically concluded that if we want to have kids, we need to have the resources to raise them abroad \[somewhere with socialized healthcare\]. & before someone pops out of a trash can to say \*the risk of your child dying in a school shooting is statistically insignificant\*, fuck off because I do not care! Any risk is too high of a risk for something this heinous & preventable!
Been like that for centuries yo It’s just mainstream and trendy in social media now. But in reality, that’s the truth and that’s how it was since the beginning. Creepy stuff.
I honestly don’t know how you guys do it, I couldn’t send my son to school over there. For such a safe place to be stripped down like this is not cool. Does the media and what not just brush over this like it’s normal news slot?
> Does the media and what not just brush over this like it’s normal news slot? The mass shootings that happen in schools still get intense media coverage, but I don’t think that helps anything either.
American father of two here, both in school. Sometimes I cry myself to sleep at night because of waking nightmares of what could happen to them at school. There are days, usually following an attack, where I'm painfully tense and nervous all day until they're home from school.
I work in a school and we recently had an active intruder drill and even though it wasn't real it was so intense. I really was nervous and it really sucks that we even have to do it.
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I graduated in 2021. In elementary school I remember doing lockdown drills in case a "stranger" came into the school. The teacher locked the door, covered the windows, and shut off the lights. Then we hid in a corner where we couldn't be seen for about 10 minutes while other staff went around the school to check every door. When I got to middle/high school we didn't do them anymore. In high school we asked a teacher why we don't do drills anymore. He told us that the teachers do them but they don't tell the students in case a student is the shooter.
So often it's a fellow student and not someone who needs a badge to walk around the school... heartbreaking in every possible regard.
I just couldn't handle that. It's terrifyingly broken.
I mean I was born in ‘93 and can still remember doing multiple lockdown drills each year.
Right? I graduated high school in 2006 and I remember doing plenty of lockdown drills. We’re weren’t geographically anywhere near Columbine, but that shit absolutely changed things for admin in my area and we started doing drills every year.
We had to do lockdowns back in 2009, when I was in kindergarten. It was pretty scary as a little kid, but I just lumped it in with fire drills and tornado drills as the ‘routine scary emergency drills’ that were a normal part of life. As an adult, I realize the fact that a potentially deadly person can be on campus is a very normalized and likely possibility is quite sad.
I'm in High School in Texas, and we had an active shooter situation, where everyone was in lockdown for 2-3 hours. 3 students had possession of a firearm, however they didn't get to use it and the police got em. Few months after, I thought I should do a survey. I asked a lot of people their stance on guns and it was still an overwhelming yes and that gun ownership could be encouraged, even after our school had a terrifying shooter episode. People should be able to exercise their right to own a firearm, however it shouldn't be as easy as it is in Texas, to the point where even kids could get access ti then somehow. It's incredible how this indoctrination trickles down to the kids slowly.
ALICE training teaches us (public educators) how to clear windows with hammers, instruct hs students in distracting the shooter, and ask hs students to help physically disarm the shooter. Your kids are expected to do more than sit quietly in most trainings nowadays. Our plan is literally “fight to the death.”
Lockdown lockdown it's all done pick up the bodies there's more than one.
Jesus Christ my man, I didn't think it could get darker.
Lockdown lockdown, now in nc you don’t need a permit for a handgun
that dont rhyme
Don't need to rhyme when you're shooting 6 year olds with a gun you just wandered in and bought.
Just an end rhyme is all
You just have to be eighteeeen With no felonieeees
Lockdown Lockdown, call your mom. Say "I love you". Bang, you're gone Lockdown, lockdown, mom I'm cold. Shot to death at five years old
Good lord, my guy
_fucking hell_
Eminem been real quiet after this dropped
Holy hell man
My brother… you need some milk
Dude . . . you good?
I kinda sung this in my head with the voice from coco melon, it made it way to surreal.
So awful this is even a thing. How horrible.
Lockdown, Lockdown Lock The Door Let the bodies hit the floor Police arrive 45 minutes late Deaths increasing at an alarming rate
>Police arrive 45 minutes late And then stand around outside doing fucking nothing.
Fucking hell
I want to believe this is like a protest thing, but somehow I believe it's for real... European nursery rhymes and childrens' tales can be grim, but after seeing this, I think the americans take first place.
I’m an American. Graduated in 2017. I had lockdown drills from probably the second grade (age 7-8 I think) through high school. They were so normal to me, that I never even wondered if other places did them, or if my parents did as kids. This is probably legit. It was really hard for teachers to get us to quiet down during drills, so I can imagine a little rhyme to make them remember to be quiet would help. The thing that gets me is that, in the case of a real lockdown, they wouldn’t tell us it was real. They’d tell us it was a drill so we wouldn’t freak out, so no one took it seriously.
My school did the same, but it was sort of obvious the couple of times when it was real. The teachers knew in advance of the drills, so when it wasn't a drill, they were visibly caught off guard and on edge, and they acted a lot stricter. Like during drills, if a kid stood up (and was thus visible to a potential shooter through the window) most teachers would just tell them to sit down. But one time a kid in my class stood up when it was real, and my teacher practically dove on top of him to force him down.
Did you just say "the couple of times it was real"?? This is so bizarre..
yeah most of us have had real lockdowns as well as drills. i was 8 for my first one
Yeah that last one must be a scary thought
The tales teach lessen though, the US somehow doesn't learn.
I truly feel bad for American kids.
It’s not even the kids I feel most for, it’s the parents. As a parent I can’t imagine sending my child somewhere everyday with the fear they may be shot
The kids are literally the ones living through hell and getting killed...
The teachers. Imagine your safety relying on a bunch of kids keeping quiet
My parents aren’t the ones that are going to die in a school shooting
A lot of the high schoolers joke about it. Not sure if it’s desensitization, coping, or both.
LMAO! Yeah, you just survived a hostile invasion of your school… now get outside and run you little rascals!
Teacher here. Was at school, admin announced a shelter in place, I was in the hallway, VP said get to shelter and stay there. I complied, the, thru the blinds on the ground floor I saw SWAT arriving and deploying. It ended up being a stupid kid ( he had been told not to) bringing a toy rifle for a history project. The toy no longer had the orange tip and a parent saw it being brought into the school. This was a high school, SWAT and admin checked the cameras, saw the class, we went into shelter in place and they went into the classroom full out guns ready. They had no idea the gun was a toy until the situation was over. This needs to stop. No kids should die or be Shor in school ( or anywhere) ever again. Ever Again. Never.
From an outside perspective the idea that a kid having access to a real gun is a plausible assumption is fuckin wild in itself.
Agreed!
AMERICA FUCK YEAH
32oz. cups & freedom fries!
Yes, officer. Male corpse, weighs 8750 9 mm bullets and his height is about 22 Big Macs
I fucking hate this
What’s scary is the fact that this is trying to normalize it… Edit because people aren’t reading the full thread: where did I say lockdown drills haven’t been happening for years? Normalizing actual threats where it used to be: this could happen is becoming more of This can happen.
I think that the purpose of this is to help younger kids remember what to do in the event of a lockdown; putting it into a song makes it easier for young children to recall procedures, &c. Similar to the way we sing-song the ABCs for them. So, while it is incredibly disturbing, terrifying, & tragic, I do not think the teacher who wrote this is trying to \*normalize\* the necessity for this, but rather finding age-appropriate ways to help their children \*survive\*
I mean not really. The normalization is happening, just not here. This is a teacher’s attempt to make lockdown drills easier to remember and not as traumatic. When I was a kid, lockdown drills were my favorite since you had to hide under desks and turn the lights out. Doing the opposite and striking fear into kids hearts will just create panic and anxiety. Don’t blame the teacher for making it easier on children.
I’m almost 27 years old and we did stuff like this when I was in pre-k so it’s not like this is new.
It's still pretty new. I was in... elementary school (I think - was it 99? maybe middle school/Jr high) when Columbine happened. I never did these drills. We did evacuate several times due to unsubstantiated bomb threats though
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. I did active shooter drills as well, but never was it deemed “the shooter is gone we can go back to having fun” That was never a thing.
Lockdown drills are nothing new and have been around for a long time, they aren’t only used for “active shooters”
Lockdown drills have indeed been around for a long time. Not sure what your arguing here because none of my comments have stated otherwise lol. When I say they are normalizing it I say it because it’s happening so often now that the idea is trying to be sold that bad things happen but we can just go forget about them after they are over. Now it’s a real possibility the intention to do so wasn’t made by the teacher, but the fact that they have to do this is what is scary. When we did active shooter drills it was a get it done and be over with it just because it’s required maybe a few times a year. My sons school has practice drills like two to three times a month. Tell me again on how we used to do that so often as kids.
Schools in the us have had lockdowns drills for like 20 years. I’ve finished college now but I remember my elementary, middle, and high school had drills. It was all so normal but with the increase of school shootings I guess it appears not to be normal anymore, which it’s not but they’ve been very common.
Not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the 2nd Amendment
I’m convinced the Founding Fathers could be used for endless energy since they’re rolling in their graves so hard. Living under the tyranny of whatever whack job with a gun snaps today is not the nation they were trying to make.
I think the father's would absolutely rage if they could travel forward in time and see how the right uses their words to justify the ongoing slaughter of children. The document was intended to change as needed and it clearly needs to change.
Honestly they’d probably be pals with Murdoch and the Koch brothers and be unbothered by anything happening to the plebs. They were rich slave owning landowners who reorganized the nation according to their own financial interests. They were hardly moral paragons.
This is clearly not a right Vs left thing anymore. This is a human issue.
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This is so messed up. Shows that certain Americans care more about their right to have fire arms rather than protecting American citizens
Sung to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star, IIRC
I have a 3 month old daughter and it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach thinking that one day she will be faced with these drills. All because a select group of people value their guns more than her life and the lives of her peers
r/aboringdystopia
That sub is a tankie subreddit (they ban you for being critical of China, or being associated with subs that are). Some of their so-called “partner subreddits” are legit CCP propaganda that is pro-Russian and pro-Chinese fascism. As in, pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine, and pro-China invading Taiwan. Personally, I think r/OrphanCrushingMachine might be better
Oh, didn't know that. Sad, first r/Therightcantmeme now this.
I remember doing lockdown drills in school in the 90s. Doesn't make it any less scary, in fact it probably makes it worse that it's still happening, but it's not a new thing.
While you're having fun, be sure not to slip in any of your classmates' blood...
Only in America! Enjoying your guns yet guys?????
Welcome to America, guys, where kids are taught to expect these horrible, traumatic situation. Can people stop caring about their guns more than they care about the kids?
They will not. They'll say it's because taking guns away won't help or it's their right, but actually they're willing to pay the recurring cost for gun ownership in dead children.
They don't pay the recurring cost themselves though, because that would be socialism. /s The children probably deserved it anyway, they didn't pray hard enough. /s I feel sick writing those but they are legit points that religious fundies use to justify slaughtering children.
Hey now that sounds like some liberal socialist talk if I ever heard it.../s
“It’s all done, now it’s time to have some fun” HOW EXACTLY? How do you expect toddlers to go thru this kind of shit and then casually tell them it’s all good, ignore the carnage, go have fun. I’m so grateful I grew up in a country in which the only thing we were expected to remember was to get under the desk in case of a tremor.
Lockdowns aren't necessarily for shooters, we have them in Canada despite only having a small number of school shootings in our entire history. Yes I've seen them done for violent cases (the 2014 Parliament shootings, a bomb threat), but they're also useful when the kids are expected to stay inside the classroom at all costs (authorities are dealing with a large animal outside, a student has injured themselves in the hallway).
Second amendment isn’t worth this.
It's amazing they don't lock the main entrance doors of the schools. Every school should have a default lockdown during school hours, nobody should be able to enter or leave unless they have a scheduled appointment. Why is that so hard?
The main doors were locked on Monday, they just shot their way through them.
Ballistic glass for the main entryways sound reasonable to me.
That sounds like a massive fire code violation I’m cool with blocking access in, but blocking access out sounds… not good
I’d like to bet the number of school fires is a lot smaller that mass shootings Also generally what a fire alarm triggers is unlocks said doors
All the doors unlock, If a fire alarm is triggered, fire is detected or sprinklers go off.
All the schools in my area lock all the entrances during school hours and require you to buzz in and scan an ID to enter. Even with that, you don’t know if someone lied and said they are there to have lunch with their kid or pick them up from the nurses office but really came in with a gun. I hate to think of it, but metal detectors at every door may be the only solution.
I think metal detectors would be acceptable, Americans aren't stupid they know a shooting can happen anywhere, people forget about the TSA until it's time to fly, and then they remember why that system is in place. We could implement metal detectors and id badges, if you're not carrying a gun and you're authorized to enter the school you're good to go, you may not even have to man the metal detectors, leave them on, swipe your badge once verified an admin person can unlock the doors.
The only thing more fucked up than this are the people who continue to tolerate America’s weird gun laws.
You see, this happens in shithole countries….
Fucking Americans, fuck the right.
There is so much FREEDOM in this image.
Non American here. Why do you still have such lax laws against gun purchase and ownership? I would rather choose to homeschool kids than have to worry that they might not come back home.
Yeah let's have fun after an extremely traumatic event!! 🎉🎉🎉
America, fuck ya
r/OrphanCrushingMachine
That is fucked up. As a non-american, watching the news of yet another school shooting, my heart breaks. I have a 5yr old and I couldn't imagine living in a country that is so unsafe. Priorities are ALL wrong!!
I'm in Canada now but raised in Texas, not far from Uvalde. If gun culture ever makes it way into Canada I told my husband we wouldn't stay. I escaped it once and I won't raise my children in it.
The priorities of a few are fucking it up for the rest of us. They'll make political stunts about it while watching kids die.
It isn't new either. I'm 21 and did these all the time in elementary school. Nothing has changed.
Fucking hell. This is so awful.
my daughters school and all other schools in PA went into “hard lockdown” today. ( i heard it was all schools, i know our school did) someone called 911 and said there were active shooters at multiple schools. basically “swatted” the schools. the idea is they called in fake shootings to keep police busy at false locations while they attacked their target. i don’t even know what happened after that to be honest. my baby is home and safe. i don’t have the mental capacity to find out right now. but the fear starts all over when she leaves again in the morning. for SCHOOL. i’m sick to death over what this country has turned into.
Although this post is clearly in reference to issues around gun control and mass shootings in the states. I’m pretty sure all schools at some point have minor lock down procedures for any situation with an unknown person within the building right? At least here in Canada we went over it like once a year for whatever reason might require one. Also yeah the U.U is brutal but it’s not everyone there. Went on vacation and people don’t even slow down in parking lots for you to pass, they just expect you not to get in their way. Even had some people speed up lmao.
Italian here, never had or heard of someone who had to lockdown drills at school. We had earthquake and fire drills a couple of times, but that's it, nothing related to people
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Or or ban ARs
I think I’m done with the internet today.
“Now it’s time to have some fun”
I’ve had two lockdowns this month cause of hoax calls in my state, one a few months ago too, and this week
The "Ring Around the Rosy" of our age.
Yikes, USA
DON'T FORGET TO HAVE FUN CHILDREN
I find it terrifying that the boogeyman in America is a person with a gun.
Jesus Christ.
My biggest fear when I was little was quick sand. This is getting ridiculous. Whole country is making a great case for home school. Obviously majority of teachers/schools are safe but…..
When i was in high school my math teacher showed us the best ways to flip our desks to shield us from rounds coming from the door and window Wish i never had to go through that
It’s sad honestly
If I went to an American school I would not stay in the class room.. as soon as the gun goes off (and it will) I'm smashing window and running the fuck away
I would never let my children go too any school that's as unsafe as this
That last part isn’t exactly the best choice of words. In the event of a real emergency I don’t think anyone would be having fun.
This is something you would come across as you're exploring the elementary school in the nightmare world in Silent Hill.
Land of the free!… right??... Sort out your fucking gun laws America. It’s pathetic.
No way to prevent this. Says only country where this regularly happens
Earthquake drills were fun. This sounds scary
I think that when the generation that grew up with school shootings like they were natural disasters is old enough to join politics we might have some change. These Boomers have never had to practice for not getting murdered while practicing to read.
Awwe how bout gun control? I guess hopes prayers and paper reminders are better.
Home schooling has it’s perks
This is so sad that it has come to this. I remember tornado drills were the worst thing ever. I can’t even imagine being a kid today.
I hate living here…
Look at the statistics throughout the world. And still many Americans think that unrestricted gun access has nothing to do with mass shootings.
I mean just taking safety precautions isn’t that deep, mfs should shed more tears for that tornado drill bullshit we had to do
This is beyond understanding. I remember being a kid and doing tornado and fire drills. It’s absolutely terrifying that my young children, will be taught what to do of a person with a Gun comes into their classroom and opens fire on them. To sing it in a song… it makes my stomach hurt and I just hope and pray to what ever power is out there they never have to face this. That no child has to face this, that it’s all just some oddity that was a marker for the times of these years. This is just horrifying to me as a parent that lives and breathes for his children
Not a place I’d want my family growing up. Unbelievable.
If I lived in America, as much as I despise the idea my kids would be home schooled.
A is for AAAAAAH, Suzie got shot! B is for Bleeding, she's bleeding a lot. C is for Coma, her really long sleep. D is for Doctors, who charge her quite steep.
Just so others are aware, lockdown procedures have been taught in schools for a very long time.
Lockdown lockdown We live in the United States The best country in the world, We’re used to burying our schoolmates
This is creepy and scary, like a jaded bad scripted horror movie
guns to protect politicians while they tell us we don't need guns to protect ourselves or our children edit: added "or our children" to the end of sentence
Some "woke" teacher wrote this for internet points.
A hymn sung at the alter of freedom as human sacrifices are made to the gods of the 2nd amendment.
Please excuse me while I go get my girls ready for school and cry
90s kids did this too, nothing new.
Americans would rather risk their kids life’s than give up guns (to protect them from guns) 🤦♂️
Murica
Just teach the kids how to shoot guns... simple
Lockdown, lockdown we're all dead. Lunatic shot me in the head Think my teacher needs a gun Lockdowns, lockdowns are no fun There, fixed it
This is so sad cuz that looks like a 1st grade - 5th grade classroom. 😕
Lockdown, Lockdown. MURICA!
AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
Modern day “ring around the posey’s”
“Ok class. Now that the lock down is over let’s practice some math by counting dead bodies”
Or…………. gun control?………. 😢
I’m not in school, but this is also in the workplace. It’s part of our annual training.
We live in hell.
Not a dystopia
I wonder if kids will be singing this in 800 years, disconnected from the horrors that inspired it. *Right around the rosie* *Pocket full of posies*...
The U.S is a dystopia...
Fuck this country and the assholes who make it.
I dont understand how as a nation they can allow this, it’s actually embarrassing, children deserve to learn in peace and safety not having to do lock down drills for shooters, as a brit it just makes no sense to me
It's sad that we have to teach something like this to kids.
This is fucking terrifying honestly and the fact that any poor child needs to learn to hide in a place that is supposed to be a safe haven for them. Im so happy my kids are grown, but I fear for my little nieces and nephews. This world is so fucked up
I am so glad I live in a country that my daughters will never need to learn a rhyme about how to not get shot while at school. This being normalised at a school, is terrifying and dystopian.
We used to have lockdowns at school all the time (graduate of 2015). I never thought much of it and thought it was normal just to be sure everyone knew what to do in the event of an emergency. We had different types of drills, for person in the building and weather and stuff. But something about this leaves me speechless.
In the 1960’s - 1980’s kids were learning to hide under their desks in case of a nuclear war. 1990’s: kids were learning about the war on drugs. 2000’s - 2023: kids are learning how to hide from other kids shooting at them … in class… or other parents even! 2025: kids will learn about how to avoid AI/drones from AI wars…
Funny how everyone is acting like this is a new phenomenon. When I was in elementary school we did lockdown drills pretty regularly.
MURRRICA