We had a lockdown today. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL"Everyone is fine, there was a problem at another building and they locked us down as a precaution, but I was never so scared.And I had no idea where my 16 year old was.
WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN 1 Article; 2,077 Posts Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education. Has 22 years experience. Sep 9, 2015 Oh Far! That is nauseatingly awful! I'm so glad you are okay now. I hope you never have to experience that again.Does your school have a way to have the kids contact their parents in such an emergency? As a parent, I'd be beside myself until I heard he/she were ok.
OldDude 1 Article; 4,787 Posts Specializes in Pediatrics Retired. Sep 9, 2015 Yikes. One doesn't know what real fear is until they have children.
Farawyn 12,646 Posts Has 25 years experience. Sep 9, 2015 Yes, they sent out a phone blast to let us know it's okay. I think it was potential threat in the area/at the other building, so...Glad they did it, it's the right thing to do, but OMG. Scary.
Wave Watcher 751 Posts Specializes in Community Health/School Nursing. Has 7 years experience. Sep 9, 2015 We have had 2 lock downs in our district so far....all schools. My kids are grown but I know many teachers were texting and trying to make sure their kids were okay.
AdobeRN 1,294 Posts Sep 9, 2015 We have only experienced a bad weather lockdown with a possible tornado headed our way and that was bad enough - I can only imagine what it was like with a possible threat around the building.
CalNevaMimi, LPN, LVN 1 Article; 250 Posts Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites. Sep 9, 2015 Glad everything is okay! Several years ago my daughter's high school had a "come pick up your kid" post-lockdown. I would have been more nervous to find her, but in a school of 1500 she was the only blonde. It was like Where's Waldo.
AcuteHD 458 Posts Sep 9, 2015 Glad everything is okay, life is scary when you have kids, but always worth it.TTFN
NutmeggeRN, BSN 8 Articles; 4,596 Posts Specializes in kids. Has 40 years experience. Sep 10, 2015 Ugh Glad it is all ok!Last year we had a fire drill (unplanned) the first day of school @ 730 AM!A sensor was bad, what a way to start especially for all the frosh and new kids!!!
kidzcare 3,393 Posts Has 5 years experience. Sep 10, 2015 Scary! The only real lockdown we've had at my school is when a student was thought to be trying to flee the building when he ran out of the principal's office
Ddoyle 33 Posts Sep 10, 2015 Had a lockdown in the morning (as I was heading out of the door for a mandatory hearing/vision training). Someone saw a young gentlemen hop a fence near our field where students were at recess.We were locked down for 45 minutes and cops came in through our office and confronted the man.Turns out he was a parent who walks his son to school. He forget to give him something and instead of going around he hopped the fence.Sheesh!
