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Posted 2004-01-14, 12:18 AM in reply to
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"Lock down"
My senior year of highschool we got locked down for about three hours on a possible gun threat. The school had this system built into the phone network that would sound a silent alarm in the administrative office if a specific code was punched into any phone. All of the faculty knew the code, and were instructed only to use it if a student armed himself with any form of explosive weapon (i.e guns, a pipe bomb).
One day, I'm in drama class and the principal gave the lock-down order and told everybody that it wasn't a test. We were stuck in the band room for three hours while the police searched every square inch of the school. They didn't find anything, and
honestly
expected the kids to stay in the building and continue the school day after we were released. In all honesty,
not
finding a weapon in that situation would strike me as being a more caution-worthy situation than actually locating one. So, I (like 90% of the students) decided that cutting the last two hours of school would be the most prudent course of action.
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