Lock Down
 

Who else is in lock down because of the sniper?

We are and it sucks. Atleast I have my laptop to play on.

what does this mean?

are you stuck at school?

Almost.

We are very limited in our movement around school. Were in a campus style school and needless to say, we can barely move. We can't eat outside, we are stuck in one cafeteria, and to add to that, we cannot go to differnt rooms durring study hall to make up tests and such.

Teachers patrol the walkways and all blinds are closed.

We used to get those when i was in high school. Especially when they sent in the drug dogs.

Our school is like that everyday. We have been like that for the past four years.

In addition, we have one active and armed cop walking the campus at all times, and other law enforcement people that patrol all day long.

Our school is always pretty open. We have a teacher on "hall duty" stationed at each enterance during all hours ... but usually they don't even look up when you come in the building! We have an armed cop on duty at all times who just walks around the school. Somtimes, people from the police department randomly come and walk around the school. We don't have to worry about closing blinds or anything because the only windows in the school are in the commons ... there are no windows in any of the classrooms. :( Juniors and seniors have open campus for lunch, and seniors get senior privelege where they can leave for the hour they have off. It's not very strict at all.

- Katie

our school looks and is simmilar to a prison. We have 10 foot tall steel gates around our school, all of the windows have shutters on them that are normally closed. The parking lots are all gated in. The only time we are allowed out is during lunch. Not as bad as you guys right now, we have armed police on campus all day and there is dade county public schools police department and there is usually more than one cop on campus.

We had lots of freedome before this, so this is unexpected.

We we're just in a lockdown today, which took us all by surprise...because they did it last week as well, both times for the drug dogs....it has never happened this frequently before...very odd.....last week it was almost all of our D Block (hours 7/8) and we couldnt leave the class or switch classes from hour 7 to 8....today it was shorter.....Our school with the new administration is now pretty strict on passes in the halls and such, but I can roam around pretty freely If i try....

Wow things have certainly changed since my day. Our school had classrooms that opened directly to the outdoors (sunny California) and it was open campus for all grade levels for anytime you had free time, not just lunch. It was nice.

The lockdowns must be infuriating. The teenage girls I was mentoring at an activity last night were complaining that they were constantly having drills and lockdowns lately because of concern over the sniper thing. It's crazy! We're ten hours north of D.C. by car! Still I guess it's good that the administrators at the local schools are concerned enough about the studen't's safety enough to try and be prepared. However, I think they're worrying the kids more than helping them.
The girls were all wound up from being cooped up all day. It was hard to show them the skill I was sharing. I'm proud of them though. They picked up really fast and did a good job after they got thier "wiggles" out. It helps to have a facility with a basketball court where they can get thier energy out so that they don't kill each other with their over exhuberance(sp?)

I hope things improve for you Mr. JosephM.

Thanks. I'm not the only school doing this. Many others are too. So if you see a team from Richmond, VA, chances are very likely their in lock down to, so if I loose my sanity on these boards, you know why.

We've never had drug dogs come to our school ... funny, because a fair amount of that does go on :mad: Though I did see three people get arrested during school on Tuesday ...

- Katie

OOooohh! JosephM! you poor thing! (I'm not beinmg sarcastic here).
I'm at least willing to be here for you. Send an address we'll mail you some chocolate chip cookies or something. Chocolate always makes me feel better.
Being cooped up is hard on a soul. I nearly went crazy when I was stuck in bed during my pregnancies. I suggest finding some exciting novels you like and reading a lot if your laptop goes dead.

My school's pretty much like Katie's, except only seniors have open lunch. Not that it's monitored that well, though. We have 3 parking attendants/hall monitors that are supposed to watch that, but there are about 7 door you can use to leave, and only 4 are ever watched. Plus, during non-lunch times, they don't even care. I have an off hour, and can leave school then, and I haven't been stopped once.

my school is pretty lax. some teachers are [responsible & care about you alot], so you have to identify them and just ignore them (do as they say, don't bother fighting if it's wrong, cause they're right, since they're a teacher, and you're just a lowly student), and believe me, i've learnt the hard way (i hate detention so much). apart from that, seniors have open campus, but the rest of us are free to roam the halls. last year i had a lot more freedom, cause i would just say "champey" (the name of our science/research teacher and robotics mentor) and you get by anything :p. this year she can't do that though, cause teacher's got mad :(. the only thing i really hate now is that my late bus (bus you take if you stay after and can't get a ride home) goes quite literally in circles around my house, so it takes a lot longer than it should (i hate school buses). oh well, i guess i can't complain too much.