Schools in lockdown

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Primary school children, and for all I know, secondary too, are having drills on school lockdown. Hiding under tables, etc, and barricading classroom doors. A teacher on the news this morning said that the children were used to it now. If you are a teacher, do you agree with this, do you find it a useful exercise or would you say that it is instilling unnecessary fear into young children, as the possibility of schools being attacked is pretty minimal? I know it can happen and has happened, but such an event is extremely rare in the UK. (I am thinking Dunblane).

Dc's secondary does it. The first thing they do is place their mobile phones on the desk so they find it quite traumatic. The idea of an intruder seems tame in comparison.
They roll their eyes at it and hope it's in a boring lesson as far as I can see, which is actually better than them going into panic mode.

When I was at school we had a bomb alert (suspect IRA-yes, this was England) and had to evacuate quickly, and the school clearly hadn't got any provision for such an event, which was much more scary than if it'd been something we'd practiced, even as an older teen, as the teachers were so clearly on edge and not knowing what to do.

my DC secondary school.in London does it which I am .or Ethan happy with, anything to give them a better chance if anything happens. rural.primarh school doesn't seem to bother but probably not a lot of need.

I think it's a good idea for schools.to do this. when I was a kid at a school abroad, some.group blew up the US Embassy right across the road from our school. it was absolute bedlam. The teacher ran out of the lesson and left us alone and we had no clue what had happened or what to do. everyone got out safely from the school.eventualy but we had to.walk past and saw a lot of blood and gore from the embassy which could have been avoided with a proper plan.

It's not just for terrorism etc. Most likely reason to lockdown realistically is an angry/aggressive parent who poses a risk!

Exactly. A parent wielding a knife, threatening to hurt staff in our case.

My dd school was in lockdown recently for a major incident, the fact they had done some practices meant they were able to be safe and follow instruction from Police and school staff.
Physically they were fine but you can imagine they were scared about what was happening outside.
They were allowed home at the end of the next day, after being highly praised for how they coped with the situation.
I'm sure it would have been much harder for those looking after the children, including Police, had they not been aware of what to do.