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yesterday i drove past a school sign in one of the carolinas (idk which, fuck 'em both) that said "PRACTICE YOUR ESCAPE PLAN - NOT YOUR TIKTOK MOVES"
death to america
PRACTICE YOUR ESCAPE PLAN
"FUCKIN TIKTOK, WASTING KIDS TIME WHEN THEY SHOULD BE TRAINED LIKE CHILD SOLDIERS TO SURVIVE INCELS TRYING TO MURDER THEM" 
meanwhile these fucking worms have the audacity to play the "save the children!" card, often in the very next breath
Genuine question 🙋♂️, did any of yall Non-Americans ever have to do School Shooting/Intruder drills? I always sorta assumed it was normal, is it weird? Also to play devil’s advocate, I think it’s a good idea to have a plan for if it happens but how often were your drills? Ours were like 2-3 times in a schoolyear
Did any of yall Non-Americans ever have to do School Shooting/Intruder drills?
Good lord, no. That is not only awfully weird but terrible as well, and even more having to do that three times per schoolyear.
What we had instead was fire drills, and we had one per schoolyear, but I think you Americans are familiar with those too.
As a dutchie, no jfc that sounds terrifying.
Keep in mind that I was like 7 when this happened, I obviously don’t find these tragedies funny in any way, but as kids we would always make jokes about these drills all the time like cracking jokes as to who has the worst hiding spot in the classroom or trying to whisper a joke to make your friends laugh out loud (you are supposed to hide and stay completely silent so by making a friend laugh, the teacher would yell at them) it’s pretty crazy but kids will be kids no matter how pressing the situation. The more I think of it, the more I think of how weird it is that the solution to gun violence in schools is making them hide better rather than trying to do anything to address gun violence.
Been to school in 3 countries and only ever had natural disaster drills (fire, earthquake, flood).
Don't think I've ever met a non-american who thought active shooter drills were anything except horrifying.
Yea I got super used to it, it sounds fucked up but I looked forward to them because it meant classes were shorter by like 10-15 minutes. Tbh a school assembly could’ve had the same effect on my schoolday without scaring me about being shot and killed as an Elementary Schooler. And lemme just let you in on the inside track, the school shooting drills were fucking PATHETIC! They would just make you hide in the classroom. What classroom on Earth has good hiding places? That’s not exactly on the agenda for construction workers or architects, they just wanna make a room with enough open space so students can see and hear the teacher from any part of the room, they don’t build little Batman Arkham-style floor grates and gargoyles for students to use to hide from armed assailants. There were only like 2 students out of 15-25 that were well hidden, it was honestly very disappointing because the drills showed more than anything else that we would all be ABSOLUTELY FUCKED if a shooter came in. Our desks had nothing covering the bottom part, so you couldn’t hide under it, you have to tip over the desk to hide, and anyone with half a brain would know someone’s hiding behind a tipped over desk
Russian here. We didn't even get terrorism drills, despite Beslan happening before our eyes. Then again, we didn't get school shootings until 2010's, at least not that I've heard.
We had fire drills from time to time, which were always announced in advance and consisted of basically just going outside when the alarm rings, and standing there awkwardly for a few minutes
I’m glad that Fire Drills are basically the same everywhere, just vibe outside for like 5 minutes pretending to be avoiding a fire and not doing anything
I’m glad that Fire Drills are basically the same everywhere, just vibe outside for like 5 minutes
I'm currently working in the middle east and it's actually the other way around; when there's a fire we go inside cause it's colder.
Climate Plan 2050
Not even in PR, a satellite of the empire which by all practical accounts consumes the same ideological brainrot the US produces, does this shit happen.
*Edit: To echo some other replies, we had fire and earthquake drills, and also for tsunamis.
French too. Fire drills were the only thing we got. I learned about US shooting drills in my adult life and always found the concepts highly disturbing
French here, yeah everyone in Western Europe is looking at America like "wtf is this shit" on the subject of school shootings. We only have drills for fire, and sometimes local disaster risks like nuclear spillage in my hometown, but only of you were near a potential hazards yknow
Do they have any drills specifically for Intruders? If so it’s probably pretty similar to ours
I never experienced one, and no one every talked to me about any Intruder drill so if some schools do them in France it must be really marginal. I don't know for other European countries, but I think I would have heard of it if there were
No they do not