I've heard a lot about them and how traumatizing they can be for children, but are they actually a widespread thing or just something a bunch of psychotic schools do to torment kids?
I've heard a lot about them and how traumatizing they can be for children, but are they actually a widespread thing or just something a bunch of psychotic schools do to torment kids?
I used to work at the preschool connected to my school district. I doubt that small preschools do drills, but we did. We would huddle in the bathrooms connected to our classrooms and tell the kids we had to be quiet because we were playing hide and go seek with Mrs. (Principal) and if she found us, we'd lose. Keeping 15-20 kids aged 3-5 quiet in a bathroom went about as well as you'd think. At least the kids weren't traumatized because they thought it was a game, but the framing of "if we get found, we lose" had the teachers feeling pretty :doomjak: