A Real Code Red at Becca's School
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The fact that you would put yourself out there speaks volumes for your character. Those kids are lucky to have you!
Actually no, everyone single teacher has to understand that if en a dangerous situation they HAVE to throw themselves in front of a kid to save them honestly what if some teachers are so mean because they are suicidal? And there job may have a dead ending…
@@lanonie3653 their job is not to risk their life and in a life threatening situation how are they obligated to put themself in harms way, especially in cases of a perpetrator with a gun or knife. They have no training no certification anything to be able to defend themselves or others. They don’t HAVE to do anything
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@@lanonie3653 the fact that they need to understand that before entering a job I’d disgusting America is a horrible place
@@lanonie3653 the fact that they need to understand that before entering a job I’d disgusting America is a horrible place
“not wolverine friend” had me rolling
😂
Edward Sizzerhands is 🥴🤪😂🤣
when i tell you i cackled
She cracks me up.
the comedic relief we needed in this story lol
Teachers in America literally have to prepare themselves to risk their lives for their kids. And they still wonder why teachers are leaving the profession...
Firstly any school in the world should have the mentality that they should protect the kids at their schools with their lives. Secondly this doesnt have anything to do with why teachers are leaving the profession.
@@kingwildcat6192000 teachers shouldn’t have the responsibility to lay down their lives for random children they are “in charge of”. Could you imagine a school shooting, but a teacher didn’t come out from behind her desk when they start shooting kids. Should she now go to prison for accomplice to murder?
@Joseph Snedeker firstly a teacher is already prepared to protect the children in the school regardless if the child is in their classroom or not. It's a teacher's job to stop bullying so if a school shooter comes in they should be prepared to protect the children in their care. Should they go to jail for hiding behind their desk no, however if schools did the smart thing and armed the teachers than they should be fired for not fulling their responsibilities. This is like saying an aunt shouldn't be responsible for her niece when the mother left her their for the weekend for going out of town for work.
@@kingwildcat6192000 teachers come to work to teach. can you name any profession that you would be asked to do that? (besides the ones that explicitly and obviously do, like a firefighter or police officer)
also, the 'going to prison for not defending their students' thing is a perfect example of the slippery slope fallacy. no one said anything about being a murder accomplice nor jail time.
@serena firstly I'd like to point out I never brought up teachers going to jail for not protecting their students, only that if they are given firearms to be able to protect them and don't they should be fired just like how security guards at schools are. Secondly again while the main job of a teacher is to teach they are also their to prevent bullying and fighting on school grounds. Why are you and the other guy acting like it's never been a teachers job to protect children. The only thing that changed instead of fist it's trying to keep them protected from someone with mental issues. Like fuck. This sort of mindset that it's not a teachers job to protect kids from strangers or other kids is the exact reason bullying, fighting and school shootings is on the rise. It's also like saying it's not the parents job to ensure the mental health of their children.
We had a code red situation at school on the first day of the new semester. We were all exchanging stories afterwards of the teachers and how what they did blew us away. One history teacher passed out scissors to everyone in his class. Two science teachers herded their kids into a storage room and barricaded the doors. The Chem teacher literally grabbed a bottle of the strongest acid she had in stock and stood in front of the kids ready to chuck it at anyone who'd come in. The teacher I was with pulled out a brick from her desk while the other English teacher knew a secret way onto the roof and snuck his class up there. I was blown away by what they were willing to do for us at the time but in hindsight was appalled by how many of them actually had these plans worked out in advance. It's just so sad that this is becoming a part of the job because it in no way should be part of their job.
I taught, and still have nightmares (especially after big $h@@ting). I even had pepper spray hidden in a very secret location in my classroom that no kid could see or get to. I mentally went over and over what I would do on hundreds of scenarios. One kid in each class (who I knew could it and use it) was always spoken to quietly about using the fire extinguisher.
This sent chills up and down my spines as well as goosebumps. Teachers are so undervalued! The world in general should realize the lengths teachers go to help raise these children
Oh my Gosh that’s is terrifying I’m so glad that those teachers were like full on plans and everything but like that shouldn’t be a thing. It’s just a really terrible thing to do at a school
is code red when like theres a shooter or smthn? im not american
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There’s been a bomb threat at my school before. Scariest experience in my life
We had a shooting and bomb threat at my school, the shooting thing wasn't very scary because it was city wide idiot but the bomb threat was terrifying, non of the teachers knew what was going on, when the alarm went off you could see the panic and fear screaming at the surface of my teachers eyes, luckily nothing happened and everyone was fine but it was so scary
we had bomb threats for a month straight at mine started calling them bomb threat tuesdays bc at a point we all had to dissociate from it a lil bit and also we kept getting to go home early on tuesdays
@@sidoniegabrielle269 Yeah when I told my mom about it she was like 'yeah that happened a lot to us' and my step dad who is older than her was like 'oh we used to have a shooting or bomb threat every week'
there was a bomb threat at a school near mine and literally half the kids went home before lunch because we were all terrified. there were like three shooting threats at schools in my area this year. i’m canadian, but even the potential for something like that happening really fucked a lot of us up
When I was younger, we had a bomb threat and I had texted my mom to let her know but before I could send it, my substitute teacher snatched my phone and said we're not allowed to have phones out during class. Like dude, this isn't class. This might be the end of my fucking life. Let me talk to my mom.
I remember in like 6th grade we had a red lockdown, same year as Parkland, (no one was hurt, they thought a district custodian was an intruder) and there was a teacher who always dressed in all black, his hair was a split dyed mullet, he wore doc martins with blue laces, and when the SWAT team broke the door open, he had a fire extinguisher and almost bashed the dude’s head in. He stopped himself and fell over, but he still nearly killed a police officer for his students. The police didn’t identify themselves so the teacher thought they were the intruders before he saw the SWAT patches
Hot dammm sir. Good on him I guess, glad he didn't hit the cop!
i love that teacher omg..
Wow
I was in 5th grade during the parkland shooting, we hid and there was 2 teachers in our room at the time and theres 2 doors per classroom so both teachers were standing at the doors and we pushed over the cabinets by the doors just in case we actually had to block the door but eventually administration came in with snacks since we couldnt have lunch
And THAT is the real issue in so many situations. They don't announce themselves on entry but expect people to telepathically know who is entering and arrest them for self defence🙄
My high school I went to had an intruder drill that wasn't like any other. It was my older brother who's a cop trying to get into the school and walking around looking just like a highschool student. They were seeing if anyone would report him as suspicious and the only ones who did were the lunch ladies. I knew he was doing this the day before and kept it a secret.
Once that was done they gathered all the students to talk about why it's important to report suspicious people. They pulled all these toy guns out of his backpack showing you could fit more than 4 guns into one school bag.
Also he had to try and find his own way into the school. I asked him how he got into the school and he said they left the auto mechanic shop doors cracked open. He slid under the door and got in even though there was an auto mechanic class going on. They did nothing to stop him from entering or even said anything to him.
Wow
Scary!!
It's called complacency. Happens in the military also along with other jobs. Plus and this is a big one " it'll NEVER happen to me or happen here"!!!!!! Drives me crazy - why are you so special? Bullets dont care who they kill or injure and the NRA sure as hell doesn't care about you, babies, infants, toddlers, children adults elderly animals except for themselves!
God bless the lunch ladies.
They conducted a similar exercise about a month ago in the school district I work clise to. Police agencies were made aware so in case someone called it in as a hostile threat
I remember during in high school, we had an actual code red. We all block the door with desks and chairs, my Geometry teacher grabbed her heavy laptop and went behind to corner next to the door, and had it ready to swing. She played baseball so she could swing hard.
Thankfully no one was heart but we were all thankful for her being ready to defend use.
Mrs. Rogers: “I felt like wolverine.”
Me: Nah, more like Edward Scissorhands.
Which one would you want defending your kid? I want wolverine, I want a combat marine, I want a teacher with a shotgun unloading that gun into that MF. Criminals don’t care so you make them think twice.
Nah I literally felt like wolverine literally literally literally
Lol
@@loganmorris9660 exactly what I was going to say. What the f*** is up with the overuse of this word?
@@noprogressionisregression6854 I don't really know but it's kind of annoying
This is honestly sad. Imagine having to be in a situation where two teachers have to defend you. And one is Getting ready to STAB the intruder if needed. (No fault on the teachers they are amazing) this would honestly be traumatic.
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At least where I'm from, in all of the drills we went through, they told us to arm ourselves as well. They showed us where everything that could be used as a weapon was.
In my school we didn’t do that, what we did do is that all the students grouped up and came up with weapons, we did their job for them
Do you live in fantasy land???
This is normal at my school. We have 3+ real code reds a year, and so kids started building walls by the door with desks, so we could pop out and stab whoever was there to death. We had scissors, x-acto knives, pencils, etc, and were ready to kill.
“And I shouldn't have had to do that”
So true. 😢
In reality the world is a brutal place.. no one should have to resort to violence, but the world normally has other plans.
“Not wolverine friend"had me dying 💀
This is devastating and real teacher commitment
Exactly why teachers should be allowed to carry their guns in school.
@@stepangvardeitsev808 um no, that’s not the solution
@@stepangvardeitsev808 or maybe less guns are the solution, not more. maybe less guns and murder in schools
@@TheVivaciousNerd I'm not trying to be rude but I think ur wrong, if one of my teachers had q gun in her room I would feel alot more comfortable and safe
@@Hannah13471 you might feel safe but what if it gets in the wrong hands and there is multiple people who stole those guns and then a big shooting so I think the solution is security
This makes me fkn sick. Imagine. IMAGINE I can't even think about sending my son to kindergarten in August. These teachers are ready to be human fkn Shields for your babies and yall don't even think they are worthy of a living wage.
Preach
THIS!!!!!!!!
Preach tho
Some others states pay a good wage to their teachers. But no where near enough to be shooting practice.
Teachers earn more than a living wage…. They are actually paid a long the same lines of a firefighter or police officer… also, if you’re so scared of sending your kids to school, you can home school. It’s actually pretty easy to do.
The amount of stuff teachers risk every day it’s just crazy. They deserve so much more respect.
That last part. That’s what I was waiting for. You SHOULDN’T have had to do that. AT ALL! Kudos to the teachers still teaching. 💪🏼
I get and appreciate the sentiment behind "we need more teachers like this" but no. This shouldn't be in the job description. We aren't cops, we aren't in the military, we're here to teach. Instead of praising teachers for being willing to risk everything for our kids, how about we do something and finally end gun violence in America.
To be fair its not only guns. We had a parent come in with a machete and run around trying to get kids.
🫶🫶facts
@@emilyk2244 that’s a lot less scary then a fucking gun tho
@@emilyk2244 too be fair guns can kill 6 people in seconds and a man with a machete can be held off with s chair
Have you ever been around someone with a machete who has the intent of hurting you? No. It's no less scary than a weapon.
Weapons used the wrong way by the wrong people are the problem. We need to be protected by our government not continually let down because of this stupid excuse that "they fell through the cracks".
"who practices code red during lunch" ... you'd be surprised...
Lol
My school did .-.
wait actually though, I feel like my school should do that. like it would be pure chaos
My school did “(my elementary,middle and high school)
I did cause a nearby school went on lock down so yay extended lunch
A few years ago, my school had a lockdown drill. They didn’t tell us it was a drill, they just put the alarms on. We all thought it was real, so we were all just crying next to our friends under the tables, trying to be quiet. It was the scariest 15 minutes of my life.
Gosh dude that terrible
our district did the same thing, twice! the first time, a group of boys across from my friends and I were laughing abt it, but the rest of the class and our TEACHER thought it was real. the second time was during gym, so we went to the locker rooms, and surprise surprise, the boys were having the time of their lives laughing at each other inside lockers, and no one knew if it was real or not until someone came over the announcements. one time was in 7th grade, the other in 8th. it is a crazy world
When I was in kindergarten there was an intruder in my school and he apparently had a gun, I remember it bc they gave us playdough to keep us distracted. My teacher was in tears and I was so scared at the time. No one was injured, he left when he couldn't get in any of the class rooms.
At my siblings elementary skl the teach all the kids to hibernate like bears very quietly when theirs a lock down
When I was in middle school, there was a real code red called after we came back from Christmas break, and everyone was actually super nervous until it was figured out that the code red had been called because the “suspicious character” wandering campus was our PE teacher who grew a beard over break and people didn’t recognize him. Funny now but scary at the time.
And these people are supposed to be capable of educating others?! Sad.
@@kittycaruso50 well yes, how were they supposed to know it was the pe teacher With a beard? 💀
I-
Sounds like one helluva beard. 🤔
Lol 😂😂
The fact that you prepared yourself to basically stab someone for students really shares your personality and how caring you are for these kids
Can I say… it shares how fucked up all of this is …. She’s right she shouldn’t have been in the situation of preparing herself to stab someone in a school
@@sofiaparolini2982 I agree with you but the fact she would do anything to protect them speaks volumes
Not "basically," "actually." There's a huge difference. It's a decision deep within yourself that, no matter what the consequences, you WILL do whatever it takes to protect those kids. And we shouldn't have to do that for something as senseless and preventable as school sho*tings. I will. But I shouldn't have to. You're right though, about her being one of the good ones!
@@sofiaparolini2982 yup. Exactly. I completely agree
@@sofiaparolini2982well she needed to protect herself and everyone in the room, its not her fault that they were in danger
i had a lockdown recently at my school and they were the worst 20 minutes of my life. i have struggled with severe anxiety in the past out of genuine fear this would happen some day, but it finally started to go away until now. i hid under a table and cried for several minutes, but luckily there was no actual threat on campus, but the SWAT team came and it scared me. graduation is happening soon, so i'm just glad me and my classmates were safe.
My mom is a teacher, so this is terrifying to think about as her child.
There was once a code red at my school, we all thought we were going to die. And that morning before school, me and my mom had an argument and I snapped at her and my sisters. I thought that was going to be the last time I saw them
We had a shooting when I was in middle school. One of my favorite teachers grabbed the scalpels from his supply closet (science teacher, in case that wasn’t obvious lol) and started passing them out to students to protect themselves, then he stood at the door with scalpels in hand, ready to stab anyone who came in.
A week later there was a shooting at a college in town. I heard about it while leaving the funeral of the kid who died in the one at my school. Unbeknownst to me, my now husband was in that building and had to hide from the teacher that snapped.
This was YEARS ago and I still remember how my teachers put our safety first. I can tell you from experience, your actions that day are more appreciated than you’ll ever know, Mrs. Rodgers.
That's sad....
😱What college did this happen at?
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So your husband was in college when you were in middle school??
@@jessbee4619 good catch!! 😆 @Tori Mattson can you answer this question for us 🥴
By context I'm guessing a code red is an intruder? It's odd they'd name it that because in every hospital system I've worked or volunteered in a Code Red was a fire. I'm thankful everyone was ok, but like you said you shouldn't have to think about how to defend your students 🤬
code red in schools are active shooter on site. theres a code yellow, where either theres an active shooter somewhere nearby or they think theres an intruder in the building (the second one im not to sure, the first one definitely). fire is not a code its just the alarm lmao
@@InuyashaTT thank you. Those priotities for events that need a code (probably depending on urgency to react, confidentiality to keep order and frequency of occurence) speakes volumes about just how safe American schools and gun "laws" are.
@@ChaosNe0 yeah. some schools actually have an alternative for codes, which is so sad. its like, saying something over the comms that wouldnt alert a shooter that its code red/lockdown. obviously that wouldnt work in the case of an insider but yeah
i may be wrong but i remember we talked about this in school about other schools. its... upsetting
@@InuyashaTT I grew up with code-phrases. Like “the library is closed” meant there was an active shooter and we needed to hide
@@wasret83 getting actual confirmation is so upsetting. it became an idea around where i lived bc we were so close to the parkland shooting
When I worked as a para lockdowns were especially scary because we were the special ed class with a classroom with no closet or anything, and kids who didn't understand what was going on and wouldn't be quiet. We as teachers had to come up with our own plan for if we ever went into a real lock down, not just a drill, because the drill protocols alone would not have protected our class. It was so scary.
A teacher who worked in SPED said that she was giving the kids suckers so they would be quiet
@sarahortinau9993 we weren't allowed to have candy at school outside of approved events, and even so, I'd worry about creating a negative association between the candy and the situation for the child.
you are so right! the protocols for school lockdowns would not in any case keep us safe. i’m in eighth grade still so i know that this happening is a very real possibility, especially sense i live in a state with very little gun laws. i know that if anything ever were to happen like this we would have to protect ourselves some other way bc lockjng the door and being quiet won’t do much.
In middle school we had what turned out to be a drill at lunch we swarmed to classrooms and a lot of us ended up in the art room with no teacher or way to lock the door thinking it was real. we managed to get in contact with the front office and they sent a PE teacher over who was welcomed with a child wheilding a fire extinguisher, several kids with leather belts and big belt buckles (he was recognized quickly, so was unscathed) it was an experience
At my school we had multiple lock downs due to kids bringing guns/knives. During all of these lockdowns we were safe because the lockdown was used to cover up them getting taken away, but it still felt so real.
The fact that schools have to practice these drills because nobody in our society feels safe to even go to school which is just awful
Only in America. It's due to the gun laws. Anyone can have them. Even loons. Even our guards= guardians of the people Éire, (police) don't need them except to armed gangs, very unusual.
And another thing is when you have kids doing drills and no one tells them its isn’t a drill they don’t take it seriously cause they have drills so often
My mom told me her parents could drop her off at the skating ring that's hiw much safer it was
@@glitch4355 yeah it’s sad. I got out of high school last year, and it was truly like that. For some reason idk for other states, but me speaking from studying in Florida school, it was normal for the school to get threats of some random person or a student of doing something bad at the school, and there would have been sometimes that teachers wouldn’t let us out of the classroom until they get updates of the principle. Lots of them were false threats, but there’s one time this student did bring a gun to school cause it was about to fight with this dude but thankfully officers stop them sooner. It was scary times not knowing If there could be a student in my classroom with a gun with bad intentions. ://
@@Paf1209 they actually do tell us it's not a drill when it isn't
"And I shouldn't have had to have done that"
It was honestly heartbreaking to hear that. No one should have to prepare for that. This kind of thing shouldn't even have to come across someone's mind and yet we live in a reality where we have to practice for these types of situations for when, not if, they happen.
Arm the teachers and schools will no longer be the easy target for someone who gave up on life
@@claydalton5005 or... Get this... We stop making guns insanely easy to access
@@benlarson6031 no they're already on the black market for convicted felons
If they want a gun they'll get one illegally
All that would do is make it harder for the good guys
@@claydalton5005 huh I wonder if having to go extremely out of your way to by a firearm from insanely sketchy people for probably a very marked up price is a little bit more difficult than walking into Walmart for 10 minutes and walking out 🤔 like this argument drives me insane because you're literally saying "well hypothetically we can't stop literally every single possible gun death so that means we should just let children continue to die en mass"
@@benlarson6031 you're helping my point
The criminals that already go out of their way to get guns illegally will not change all that will change is that fewer good guys will have guns
Also what walmart sells guns? I'd like to go there
When I was in elementary school a few years ago, there was a code red at the end of the day, and my class was inside gym because they had just been a situation where somebody got shot and the person who shot the person was heading to our school. It was a very sad day for me because my friend got shot but nobody else got hurt and we also had to grab bows and arrows.
UR FRIEND GOT SHOT?! that’s actually so scary i would have been sobbing if anyone in my class was shot, especially if it was anywhere near me
Wait…bows and arrows????
Great teacher. This is why teachers should carry… if they want to carry. Nobody should be put in these situations but the reality is that evil exists and you should be able to rise up and face it with equal or greater power.
we had a code red at my school when i was in kindergarten. at the time i was just told it was a drill but i will never forget the fear that was on my teachers face. she was terrified.
Its an intruder whos usually armed
@@kylieboelman9437 I believe it is an armed Intruder(?)
they was just trying to calm you down because they didnt want yall freaking out tho
Honestly that's the best thing you can do when you have kindergarteners in the room. They're young enough that they still are desperate for approval and love following rules, and too young to be able to handle that level of fear without getting loud.
That's my fear having to look a momma in the eyes and say, "I'm sorry, I couldn't save them!" My students swear they are invincible but all their ideas I knock down by what has happened at other schools. Like they are immediately going to jump out the window. I ask them to look both ways out the window and ask them if they can tell if someone is on the roof, left or right. One of my rooms was beside this little alley that went behind the school where teachers parked! They couldn't tell me if someone was there waiting on us. They sit down and tell me they will listen to me after that. Then they start looking at things they could use to save us in a real manner like the fire extinguisher and scissors like she said. It's scary at best. And the most difficult part is the one coming to hurt us may be a student that I've taught in class or known for years. That hurts.
The drills just help the kids find their target. That’s why thing need to change and fast
@@dooogeo1041 I agree but we have to stay put until we can assess the situation and where the shooter is. We all can't just start running Helter skelter. That makes them targets too.
First and foremost not letting them into the school is key. I know if situations where students let students from other schools in the back door. ALL doors need alarms and cameras on the door. The one who sits at the front door usually a secretary needs more protection where they are too. It's just little things that could mean the world.
@@MrsMnM79 I’m a substitute teaching assistant/teacher aid in my school district. I used to sub for the greeters. I won’t anymore because I don’t feel comfortable in that position anymore. It’s too scary!
@@blondiemom25 understood
@@MrsMnM79 facts put them in prison school. You just described an urban School system
I remember having a middle school teacher that said if someone comes into our room during a real lockdown, throw everything you can at them, just be prepared in case someone does in fact come in.
Our school was once on lock out because there was a creepy guy walking around our school but they didn’t tell any of the students until much later.
I had a school shooting threat in one of the class rooms at my old school and while I was in the corner of the room my teacher turned off the lights and locked the door and stood in front of the door fully ready to save us, it’s beautiful to see her risking her life for ours
This is so sad! My daughter had a teacher who told them "We are NOT sitting here waiting to be shot!" They actually dicussed exit strategies to get out and get help for their friends. I told her the same thing. If she could get out and away, then go!
This is why i hate America because you allow guns
Exactly! Our teacher told us to stay in the room no matter what! And all the kids were like, “heck nah! Im breaking the window!” And the fact we were told to throw pencils at the intruder that may have a gun or knife 💀
Yessss…thank God…. Teachers etc need to be trained and armed with firearms …that’s just common horse👍🏻‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Same! My teacher in highschool showed us techniques for breaking the 2nd story window in our classroom. He said he would fend the intruder off as we escaped. "it's better to break your leg than lose your life".
Well there was a school somewhere where the shooters pulled the fire alarm so when everyone went outside they shot them
We treat our teachers like shit yet this is expected of all of them smdh
@Hi, it’s me Its so sad, everything is so expensive, but in Texas, minimal wage is still only a measly 7 dollars. It makes it so hard for my mom to find a job that can support us and our pets, especially with gas prices rn and living in the middle of nowhere.
Exactly. It's not their fault the school system is bad. I honestly think most teachers are treated so poorly when most of them are so sweet and are willing to put everything aside just to help us. It's awful because a few of my classmates made a group chat just to trash this teacher.
@@queenwaffles7681 minimum wage jobs aren’t designed to support a family... it’s for teenagers and old people who are bored
@@zacharyberry5019 and yet most people on minimum wage are people with families to take care of
@@zacharyberry5019 “It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By business I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.” - FDR (the man who literally made minimum wage a thing)
Our school has had one practice my two years being here on what to do in a lockdown if you're in the cafeteria. They told us to silently run to the kitchen and hide in the closets, cabinets, anything you can possibly fit in. The teachers will lock the doors go in the kitchen, hide to where they can see outside the doors to the kitchen. We should have practiced that one more
Bro teachers should earn a lot more than they do. This just shows that a teacher was putting her life at risk to save these kids. 👏 I will forever respect teachers 🫡
When I was younger, I had a teacher tell us that if a lockdown is called, grab anything thick and heavy you can find, like a textbook, because if god forbid someone gets in, you can either use it as a shield or whack someone with it. And I don’t think we should have to tell ten year olds that they might have to defend themselves against an active shooter.
I think you should. Cause the fuck is a bunch of paper gonna do against a 9mm you have to teach them how to defense themselves orherwise you get a room full if dead children
I learned self defense cuz of this, I'm actually still doing it to this day!
My third grade teacher had to tell us this. I remember some girls were talking during a lock down drill, and she literally had to tell them, if that was the real thing, they'd be dead. It's so sad that we have to say things like this to kids
…all we did was hide behind a 2ft wall that was next to the door…
Had a teacher during a lockdown who picked up a chair and hid behind the door, he was absolutely ready to do what he needed to do to make sure everyone was gonna be fine. Major respect for that guy.
We had a drill like this but instead a dude who was posing as a student called 911 and said that he heard gunshots outside of my school. The drill lasted a full 35-40 minutes
I remember my first lockdown at my middle school. It happened at the end of fifth period band class, we were in the auditorium, practicing for our winter concert. We packed up and left the auditorium, but the vice principal was standing at the end of the hallway, looking out a door, which was strange, he wasn't usually at that end of the school right after lunch, he would usually be in the office, or wandering the halls, not on the side if the building where there were two classes currently going on. We packed up and the band teacher told us to ignore the bell and stay in the classroom. The lockdown screen turned onto the virtual clock in the corner. I thought it was a drill, until the principal came on the speaker, he sounded actually concerned, he told us to stay in the class we were in, and not to go anywhere. At this point, my anxiety started to kick in. (I have terrible anxiety, and don't to well in situations like this) I had put my hood up and was trying to hold back tears. My friends noticed this, they were there too, we were in the corner across the room from the door, on the same wall as the door. We were nestled in between a counter and the music stand rack. My anxiety, eventually got the best of me and I started crying. The sixth period bell had rung and after three munites, it rang again, signaling that we were late for sixth period. The principal came back on the speaker and said that we could go to seventh period when the bell rang for that. Apparently, there was an issue a few blocks from the school, and we went into lockdown because there was a gun or something. It was really scary to think that someone could have entered the side door where the band room was, with a gun, and easily go into the band room. Or worse, go in through the door that the band room has that goes outside.
For someone who has lived through real code reds (1 school shooting) it’s the most scary thing you can experience
When i picked up my 5th grade brother told me that on their first day back to school his teacher had shown them what to do if there's ever an intruder, and that they were gonna show them how to break a window to run out and how to barricade the door while she stood watch over them with a bat in hand. I nearly started crying in the car as he was listing off things they were supposed to do to stay ALIVE. It breaks my heart they have to go to such lengths to survive in a place thats supposed to be safe.
My school had a lockdown, 2 blocks from the school were 2 guys with guns. In the PE locker room, doors were open. We just sat on benches, teachers were confused and did nothing. Apparently in other classes people were barricading doors, getting into closets, etc.
Being from the UK not having to even ‘practice’ for this amazes me about the US and how its allowed to continually happen
It's not allowed! These people are criminals and mentally ill they attack the most vulnerable and it usually happens to be CHILDREN.
Gun laws: Yolo
It can happen anywhere just sadly most is here in America. Like with Copenhagen recently.
In the uk we are supposed to practice armed intruder drills but it isn’t enforced in most cases because of the trauma. Having done it with my kids it is not fun even pretending.
We do them in canada
We practiced a run away from the building in case of a bomb drill and one first grader was in a leg cast and his teacher piggybacked him away. We were so proud of her!!
Now that’s what I call a real best teacher ❤❤
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Also had a "real" code red during my time as a student teacher. Scary as hell (had a similar expirence of pulling kids in from hallways). The 'suspicious adult' was a teacher he had just gotten a haircut
Oh goodness no 😂
Haircut so bad they be pulling kids out of the hallways
Lol I feel so bad for that teacher
He could literally sue his barber for defamation
One time when I was in middle school we had a hard lockdown, and they didn’t tell all the teachers about it. And you know how they announce “THIS IS A DRILL THIS IS A DRILL”? They didn’t do that this time. So here I was shaking under my desk texting my parents “if anything happens I love you” while my teacher was frantically locking up the class room being just as confused and shocked at what was happening. My dad later told me that he nearly busted through the gate of our neighborhood with the car that that’s how angry and scared he was when I texted that. Yeah, hope the school doesn’t slip up like that again.
I have a similar story. In elementary school we had lockdown drills, but for some reason the school decided to not announce this, they told the teachers and parents that there would be a drill but said not to tell the students, I’m guessing so if a parent got a “I love you text” they wouldn’t freak the fuck out? What made it worse is because of all of the shootings, our school took it very seriously. So when the PRINCIPLE came down the 5-10 year old children classrooms and shook the fucking handle kids we’re having full on panic attacks, 5 year olds crying thinking there going to die. This shouldn’t be a thing we have to teach, our country needs to do better in so many ways
@@Mochinix I know. My nephew who is only in 2-3 grade was traumatized, even when he knew it was a drill, and had to get sent home. It’s absolutely awful kids have to practice this
They don’t tell the students and sometimes the teachers about the drills here until after. It’s supposed to be so that we “are prepared for when it happens by not knowing it’s a drill” and personally I think it does the opposite. There is usually a “you think it’s real?” Halfway through.
It probably sounded like a bomb going off. They did what they had to do
I go to school I'm the middle of downtown next to a psych ward so we have more real lockdowns than drills 💀 unfortunately there's always at least one student/faculty member who gets hurt. Good thing I'm in canada so there's a lot less of a chance for someone to have a gun, and are able to be taken down very quickly
In 2nd grade at my field day there was a car on campus. Everyone was outside and nobody knew what was happening, until teachers started yelling at kids to go inside. I don’t know why, but in my little brain all I thought about was “I left my socks!!”, which is so funny to me now that everything is okay. There were teachers crying and kids crying, and we all were just scared about what might happen to us. Luckily, that person got caught by cops and arrested for being on our schools campus, and I have no further information, but it’s crazy how you never think to practice something like that.
It is crazy how much protection the kids have.
"I grabbed giant scissors, like wolverine..."
"Not wolverine.."
Me: I agree, way more "Kill la Kill"...
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She would of just got shot 🤣🤣
I live in Australia and in a rough neighbourhood. When I was in grade nine, the lockdown bell (which was a regular bell, just rang longer) went off during lunch. Nobody was really caring. Then the code red siren started (it sounds like the old air raid siren) which everyone knew meant it was damn serious. Teachers ran out of staff rooms screaming at kids to get into the rooms, kids were running everywhere screaming. We hid in closets, under desks, in the supply cupboards. It's was dead silent and we heard the bangs that sounded like gunshots. I held some girl's hand and we prayed, kids were crying and whimpering. The big male science teachers had grabbed kitchen knives as we were in the Home economics building and were standing at the doors. One of my art teachers bless her brave heart, was crawling around stroking kids' heads. One kid kept saying I don't want to die and she pulled his head into her lap and replied no one is dying today. I really did think I was going to die and kept thinking we don't even have guns in Australia!
It was just some drugged up guy with a machete banging it on metal seats but I was so scared. All the school did was say they were going to install a lock on the main gate but not install fencing around the 3/4 exposed sides of the schools
Australian as well, we had a guy come to our school with a pistol. No idea where he got it but I know how terrifying and confusing it is hearing gun shots. It was terrifying see the shadow of the man through the curtains as he slammed the gun against the glass. The only reason we got out scot free was because of the PE teacher. He used to be a trainer for the US marines and went straight for the guy and chased him off the school while being completely unarmed. Ill never forget the relief I felt when I heard his voice and how stressed I was waiting to hear of he was okay
@@gd3741 that guy must've had balls of solid steel.
Really though. Whenever I hear there was a gun involved in a crime I always think "it was probably Sydney or Melbourne and where the hell did they get a gun
@@thatgrumpychick4928 guy was a mad Scotsman so I'm sure the gunman shitnhis pants too. Sydney and Melbourne be wild but this was in the ACT. It's always a wonder where guns come from, I now live an hour out from canverra and we have had two shootings in the last five years. Still not as many prison escapes though.
@@thatgrumpychick4928 same lol always Sydney and Melbourne lol
@@gd3741 this was Queensland.
I’ve never been in a real code red but if it happened at my school I would 100% hug the teacher that was ready to protect my class
She's the momma bear of teachers. We need more teachers like that.
There was a real code red af my highschool a couple years ago and I am so glad there was. Technically, it wasn't real, because a teacher accidentally hit a panic button setting off the system, so there wasn't anyone in there, but to us, it was real.
It showed us so many problems with our school. There were red blinking lights to tell us it was a code red, but we had never seen them before and therefore had no idea what they meant. They never came over the intercom like they did in the practices. All teachers were supposed to get a "CODE RED" come over their computer. The teacher across the Hall did, and immediately shut his door, but mine didn't and therefore wasn't sure if it was a malfunction. We waited for several minutes trying to figure out what was happening before he finally shut the door and told us it was a code red.
I then took action and had everyone silence or turn of their phones and get into hiding, because my teacher was doing absolutely nothing.
I had a friend in the cafeteria, and they did nothing. They were supposed to be bring them to the back and hide them, but they didn't even close the doors. They didn't even grab the students just outside the hall of the lunchroom and get them inside.
I had another friend whose teacher broke down and had a panic attack. The students had to take over and close the door and get everyone safe.
I had a third friend whose teacher just kept teaching! No closed door, so hiding, no being quiet, just learn the curriculum.
If we hadn't of had that situation, if someone real had come in, we all would have been screwed.
that's awful. if there wasn't such a shortage in teachers (partly for this exact reason) i would say every single one of them deserved to be fired.
Who the hell read all that my Manz made a story please summarize
American public school? cuz same bro 💀
@@jacoby1119 idk u did already or what but pretty much a panic button got pressed accidentally an nobody really did nothing so if it was real everybody would be screwed
Thanks for the summerizing
That's one thing that has always stuck with me.. senior year during a drill, one of my teachers looked at us and said no matter happens in a real scenario, I will do everything in my power to protect you guys even if it means losing my own life 🥺
This is why a lot of us know the best ones to protect these kids are armed teachers as we have seen cops wait outside until every one is dead you go after their babies most teachers would blow your head off in a heartbeat train and arm the ones who want to be that's all we need
This made me tear up. Our teachers are so under appreciated! Thank goodness for teachers like her❤
My heart was so happy that she would protect all the kids there no matter if she got hurt. 😭
I live in Italy and we have never had a shooting in a school ever in the history of the country. It's almost the same in many other countries. It feels surreal that in the US this happens so often.
4 shootings happened in the span of a month in iowa. all within a 50 mile radius of the town i live in. it’s terrifying. the people affected were friends of my friends. family of my coworkers. i cant even leave my house without feeling terrified i’ll be shot. it’s been this way since i was in 7th grade. my fear of it that is.
As a high school student living in Uvalde, Texas- yes, these situations are scary and horrible. I remember going into lockdown on may 24 thinking that we were only in lockdown because of a bailout or illegals, which happens quite often. When we found out about the active shooting, it was hard to believe. Now, things are so different here in Uvalde. Our high school is crawling with troopers. We had emotional support dogs for the first 3 weeks of school. We built a fence around the whole campus, so it feels like a prison. Beautiful murals of all 21 victims are painted around town. You can’t go anywhere in town without seeing the number 21. It’s been rough, but our town is working to put ourselves back together.
Were you in the same school the shooting happened?
Man that sucks I hope you're all getting the resources you need to get better emotionally
The fact that you had to go through this. And that person was armed with military style equipment is a problem that should never happen. The fact that most of us in this country have stories of friends or family being involved in an active shooter situation, shows that there needs to be action taken or this will continue to happen.
@Jameson Daniel him just being armed with ar is just the start of it. He had just turned 18, bought 2 guns, and enough rounds to take out a small with a week of his 18th birthday. Texas has some of the most lax gun laws (though FL is working on that title) and he was a sign of what happens with that.
I live In Texas also. But it’s usually in Dallas and Greenville here May 26th is the last day of school. Jesus Christ my dude 🤨😭 I hope that you are alright 💙☁️✨
once in middle school the school went into a lockdown while we were in lunch. the staff did nothing to get us somewhere safe (our lunchroom was all windows, there was nowhere to hide) we all thought we were going to die, turns out it was a training drill for the police dogs, not even the staff knew 1) that it was happening and 2) that it was a drill. another time in the same year the school had a police officer come in and fire blanks around the campus so kids "knew what guns sounded like" once again the staff had no idea what was happening. needless to say i transferred schools like a week after.
The fact that this is a real problem speekd volumes. I went to a really rough school in a high crime area in my county and this was never a problem.
As a person who grew up in a medical family, I heard Code red and assumed, oh my God the School is on fire!?!?
Edit: Thank y'all for the likes, Diolch.
Me too. Especially when she grabbed the fire extinguisher. 😂
Same. At the school I went to we always called it intruder alert or break in
Me too!!!
Why don’t you just call yourself subutex?
Me too! I thought, "why are you putting kids IN classrooms?!"
i was in lockdown in elementary school constantly because we were by a plaza with stores that were getting robbed… one time we were in one for so long, this one turned about to be parents who brought weapons to our school to fight over their kids… police officers had to escort us to our parents cars and i will never forget how brave i thought my music teacher was for just picking up a pocket knife and hammer and ducking by the door the entire time, an old combat veteran
Did you happen to go to QWE in South FL? Those exact things seemed to happen. I can’t count how many lockdowns we had because of robberies since we were right next to the plaza!
@@hadassae.8479 omg! I went there when that happened!! What a hero he was!!
Ok ngl music teachers are literally the best
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Good for you!!! Adapt, improvise, and utilize whatever assets are avaliable!
Finally a teacher who actually cares about the kids more than her job
This gave me chills 😲. Teachers should never have to be in this position.
Same .
i've had a few real code reds in my life. worst was high school, administrator came on speaker and screamed "code red" in a shaky, scared voice. I was with three other kids in an unlocked classroom (free period, locked out from every other room) the teacher was off campus and came BACK after hearing about the code red knowing we were there to lock the door. he barged in from the external door to the outside and we thought we were at the end
She is the teacher we all want.
My aunt was a teacher at the same middle school I went to. We had a drill where a suspicious man was to walk around campus to see if anyone would stop him. Come to find out. My aunt actually walked up to him and asked his name. When he didn't identify himself and ignored her, she tackled him! I have never had more respect for my Aunt. She's a great teacher.
We pay teachers barely enough yo survive and expect then to mentally prepare to kill someone. I hate this country sometimes.
Hate the people who are the intruders and don’t hate the country.
@@youngconservative You are part of the problem
As someone who just hears from it, its really sad that something like that happens :/
Like, I'm from Germany, and 6/7 years old kids go alone to school and come back like it's normal
I'm speechless everytime I hear stories like yours :/ and I'm so sorry that that even happens, it shouldn't be that way..
I’m glad gun violence isn’t as bad for you brother!
@Chris Porter touché
dont children also come home for lunch as well or is that not a thing anymore?
@@ocast999 some do, if the school is near enough at the home
@Chris Porter well those weapons were at least not with guns you can easily buy, yes it’s horrific as well
This is why I love online school.
During online school it was probably the safest I've ever felt.
Once I was at school and we were outside. As we were coming in, the intercom came on and said there was a shooter in the building. My mom was a teacher and she was close by so me and some of my friends just hit the deck and bolted to her classroom. What we didn’t realize was as we were coming it they said it was a drill, so me and my best friend had a heart attack for nothing.
I felt this way when someone was trying to break down my door to get in my house. I yelled at my kids to get in the bathroom and lock the door. And I had to give myself permission that if that door opened, I had to shoot. Cause it was me and my kids OR them. I was so mad that it had to happen. That I was put in that position. But thank God I had something to protect us with. Cause the cops wouldn’t have made it in time.
Ya i dont have a gun. So me (a 5’7 120lb not strong female- young) had to teach my daughter that if someone breaks into the house…. Mommy will distract them- i want u to run out the backdoor and run to get help
From the neighbors. Had to tell her not to worry about me and not to come back or stay because of me. That she’d be helping mommy by getting OUT of the house and getting/calling for help.
You gotta save your kid(s) over your own life! U just gotta ♡
Girl what happened??
Fr dont leave us hanging i need the end of the story!
Why would anyone call the cops anymore ? All they would do is sit outside and watch while they fear for their personal safety
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Damn we need more teachers like her because I have definitely had teachers that would not be willing to put themself out there like her and the quick thinking and bravery is just amazing ❤
The school I go to had a lockdown because a man with a gun was walking on school grounds. My teacher told us that if the man comes in and she gets knocked out to throw everything at him and to scream at the top of our lungs. That was probably one of the scariest things I was ever told. Kids were literally ready to throw the chairs and one kid literally was holding up a desk ready to attack anything that came through the door. Luckily the man didn't get in the school and the cops arrested him
My art teacher has been very open about the fact that she loves her students like her own children and she will not die for us, but she will hurt someone for us. She has been very clear that in the event of a code red, she has weapons hidden in her classroom and there are plenty of other sharp.and blunt object she will use to keep us safe.
One of my art teachers had multiple flammable liquids in a corner near the door as well as multiple matches/loghters so she could torch anyone if the y tried to force their way in. The amount of things that can be used as a weapon in art room is insane
The fact that you grabbed scissors, you got the other teacher to have the fire extinguisher just shows how good of a person and how much you care for those kids
Her: talking the other girl: y’a, yuh, mhm, right
The world needs more teachers like y’all❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
This makes me so emotional. You should never be put in this position. You were so ready to defend those kids. 😢
Why am I crying!? This is so disappointing and I appreciate you so much all at the same time. 💞
I’m so glad nobody got hurt, but the fact that you were risking your life to save the kids is just amazing
No teacher should ever. So happy to see/know that she was ready to put it all on the line. Thank you for that. And thank you to every teacher out there that puts on their game face and willing to play
We had a lockdown drill in highschool while I was in choir, and my choir director, who was in his 50's at the time, had us pack into the farthest practice room from the door. He couldn't fit in with us, and when I asked him where he would hide in that situation he told me that he wouldn't, but he'd gladly sacrifice his life to make us even a little safer in that situation. He was the only teacher I ever liked and the only one I still talk to 5 years after graduating.
When I was like 7 or 8 my school had a bomb threat, so they put us on lockdown in the building instead of calling school off. After that we had tons of "code reds", but they were all fake and they wouldn't tell us until after. My sister and I, nor any other child in that school needed that truma. 👍
Many, many years ago when I was in school if a bomb threat was called into a school, school was instantly dismissed. This was long before we had the technology to instantly track and identify where/who made the call. How we value our children has changed for this country, unfortunately! Bomb threats should have major consequences, especially those made by adults. Children doing this should have lasting consequences that teach responsibility for actions.
Ok so let me get this straight, there was a bomb threat inside the school, AND THEY KEPT YOU IN THE SCHOOL?! Make that make sense.
Omg the way that you cared for all of those kids thinking that some one could come in the room at anytime and the way that you went out of your way to get scissors and stab them if anyone came in the room I would have loved you as a teacher 👩🏫
I grew up in an area where school shootings happened pretty often but I always had the most amazing teachers to help. They’re real hero’s y’all.
It’s not normal that teachers should be dealing with these situations when we know how to stop them or at least seriously limit them from happening in the first place 💔
It wasn't normal. It is normal now. You can bet your life that nothing is going to change and we have so many issues that threatens all of our lives. Climate change which is killing people now. It will continue to get worse and worse. So people who are giving birth to new humans are basically dooming them to suffer through all this. Terror at school. Terror with excessive heat and then excessive cold. It's unfair to bring more people on to this dying planet. The dying humanity.
My 7th grade year, we all went into lockdown right after the final bell rang, we heard, "lockdown immediately" over the intercoms. The lights in the halls turned off there were kids screaming, crying and my science teacher said, "grab the younger one into my room now, we have our knock. He gave each hour a different knock so we would know just in case. There was a nudest outside and there was a threat sent to the high school and a gunman around the Catholic elementary. It was horrifying but my science teacher made sure that we would know what to do. He is my forever favorite. And everyone at all the schools were safe
Did y’all hear about the Nashville school shooting 2 days ago? 6 killed. Truly heartbreaking.
I’m surprised about how there wasn’t a plan on what to do in a code red while at lunch.
At my school, we were told on a meeting on the first day what to do. We were supposed to all line up, and the lunch aids would take us into the kitchen, where they would give us somewhere to hide
These teachers are willing to do more than some police officers would do
This made me want to cry and it makes me so scared for my child as well
When she said code red I literally thought one of her students was having that time of the month.
That's truly amazing how she stood in front of those kids to protect them during a scary time. Your amazing Becca 💗
I’m glad you handled the situation as well, I knew some friends that were in a situation like this I was so scared for them
I remember when I was a kid I was 12 my sister was 16 mom and dad went in a date all of a sudden it sounds like someone trying to break down the door. I’m 12 all I have I a BB gun and a bow and arrows but I was a good shot back then with that bow. For like and hour I just had my arrow trained in that location right about eye level. Mom and dad come home everything was fine but shit…… no one scares my sister. Tried reaching my dads shotgun but couldn’t reach it and yes I shot it before.
We had three code reds at my school in one year. It got to the point where we were joking about it on social media. Our backpacks don't get checked or anything, so kids started bringing x-acto knives. We were fucking ready.
Edit: this was my first year at this school, but it happened at the same rate for the rest of my time there.
If only they had teachers like this in Uvalde, and better police