School lockdown

[iphammer]

I have just seen a video on social media from the bbc with a classroom of primary school children going through the process of a lockdown in an event of a terrorist attack. The school has an alert system “we are in lockdown” sounds when something bad is happening.

WTF is going on are we heading for a terrorist attract ?

I have a 7 year old and a 1.5 year old. My 7 year old is starting year 3 in just over a weeks time I’m starting to worry thinking what do the schools / government know that we as parents don't.

starting to think about taking him out of school and homeschooling him instead.

Get a grip OP.

Also read the hundred other threads on this. It’s been done to death.

The changes of it being needed here are tiny, but I’d rather there were defined procedures and everyone was ready if and when needed. Same as a fire drill really.

In the unlikely event you are genuine, OP, the video in question is from 2017. As others have pointed out, lockdown drills in schools are not a new phenomenon. School security in general has tightened up massively since Dunblane. https://fullfact.org/education/uk-school-lockdown-drill-footage-2017-not-2025/

Depends on angry and aggressive they are being. Especially in cases where one parent isn’t allowed to see a child, or the child has been placed in care.

There are lots of scenarios where a parent is a danger to their own or other children or staff.

Dublane was 20 years ago so this has been a know risk for a long time. Lockdown procedures have existed in schools for a long time. My kids school have two lockdown procedures, a full lockdown where children aren’t allowed to leave their classroom and a partial one where they can move freely around school but aren’t allowed outside. They haven’t used them in my kids schools but I’ve known them used locally, normally a white British male with a weapons roaming the streets and threatening people situation.

Lockdown practice in primary schools has been happening for years! In our primary school they practise going under their table and sitting in silence. We just say ‘let’s practise our sleeping lions’ and they all go under.

The children are also told they need to do this in case there is a dog loose in the grounds or someone who shouldn’t be there.

Hear, hear. This site is becoming ridiculous now, too. Clearly something orchestrated going on.

You again! Happily stirring the shit. You were told on your last thread that lockdown practice at school is completely normal procedure and has been for years.

What’s your motivation in starting a second thread?

We had a dog come into our school circa 1976..we gave him water and played on the school field with him...he was great..made me want a dog

• disclaimer- misses the point of thread..🙈

Dog in the playground:
Oh, no he don’t.
He’ll come with me,
You see if he won’t.
The word gets round;
The crowd gets bigger.
His name’s Bob.
It ain’t – it’s Trigger.
They call him Archie!
They call him Frank!
Lives by the Fish Shop!
Lives up the Bank!
Who told you that?
Pipe down! Shut up!
I know that dog
Since he was a pup.
Dog in the playground:
We’ll catch him, Miss.
Leave it to us.
Just watch this!
Dog in the playground
What a to-do!
Thirty-five children,
Caretaker too,
Chasing the dog,
Chasing each other.
I know that dog –
He’s our dog’s brother!
We’ve cornered him now;
He can’t get away.
Told you we’d catch him,
Robert and – Hey!
Don’t open that door –
Oh, Glenis, you fool!
Look, Miss, what’s happened:
Dog in the school.
Dog in the classroom,
Dog in the hall,
Dog in the toilets –
He’s paying a call!
Forty-six children,
Caretaker too,
Headmaster, three teachers,
Hullabaloo!
Lost him! Can’t find him!
He’s vanished! And then:
Look, Miss, he’s back
In the playground again.
Shouting and shoving –
I’ll give you what for!-
Sixty-five children
Head for the door.
Dog in the playground,
Smile on his face,
Tail in the air,
Winning the race.
Dog in his element
Off at a jog,
Out of the gates:
Wish I was a dog.
Dog in the playground:
Couldn’t he run?
Dog in the playground
... Gone!

The amount of people believing TikTok silly bollocks about this
Send your kids to school as normal and don’t be bloody stupid

Meh they’ve been a thing for years. Angry/violent parents , loose dogs, incidents happening in the vicinity, serious accidents etc. all normal, common reasons. Local secondary nearby had to go into lockdown because a child sadly,tried to kill themselves. It was so the kids wouldn’t see/hear any of it and so that emergency services had clear access.

Yes, we know something you don’t know. We know shit happens.

@JamesWebbSpaceTelescope I always think of exactly the same thing when I read that they use the scenario that there's a loose dog for lockdowns.
One of my favourite poems 🥰

We are showing our age! Great poems.

Never used a loose dog for lockdown but we have mentioned the ‘wild’ Rhea that is known to roam around. Those birds can be vicious if scared and keeping all children inside would be needed.

I have never actually known of a school having to evacuate children for a real fire, but they still have fire drills every year. The chance of anything happening is tiny but it's better to be prepared...

I’m 37 years old, we had lockdown drills at primary and secondary school, we also had fire drills. Do you think a fire drill means someone will burn the school down?

Yes we are at risk of a terrorist attack. There are several countries with nukes who are at varying levels of displeasure with the UK. A few of their leaders are nearing death and have been megalomaniacs their entire lives and may just want to go out with a bang, literally.

@iphammer are you going to come back to this thread and acknowledge that you are spreading misinformation?

It's the modern way.

And sadly probably responsible for huge levels of anxiety in young people.

Anxiety in ages 18-24 is huge. Damagingly so.

Let's think when this sort of measure was bought in?
I'd assume post 9/11 but can't find a specific date when school 'lockdowns' were first run ... but the Run Hide Tell campaign was introduced in the UK in 2015

So someone who is 24 now would have been 14 - at school when this was introduced.

Is it possible that these young people have been really emotionally damaged by this preparedness training?
And what do we do as a society to rectify this and stop young people being so anxious?

Is it possible that these young people have been really emotionally damaged by this preparedness training?

Having done lockdown drills, and working in a school that has had actual lockdowns - no.

There are lots of other things going on in their lives, particularly social media, that does affect their mental health, but fire drills and lockdown drills are generally greeted with 'yes!' Because it gets them out of lessons.

I’m 37, we had lockdown drills at school. Are you suffering anxiety due to school fire drills?

It’s not just about terrorism but little idiots thinking they’re hard by carrying knives to school. There has been an explosion of that in recent years. It used to be just in the deprived areas to London that you’d hear about knife crime now it’s up and down the county.

No. It's not the same as a fire drill.

Fire drills were a bit of a minor disruption.
Filing out to the playground and standing with your class and having the registered called will be so very different to cowering under a desk and being told to hide behind something that will protect from an attacker.

We are rural - its called a “bull got loose” drill, as all kids know why that is important.
But is could be equally an aggressive dog, parent or just anything else.