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[thursdays child]

The fire drill:
A neccessay part of school life
A think I look back upon with nostalgia

Have you everexperienced a dire drill in a Korean school?

We had a bomb drill earlier in the year.

Anyway, the fire alarms have been ringing for 40 minutes. Nobody flinched. I stopped teaching and suggested we all went outside. Everybody including my co-teacher thought i was crazy.

[kat2]

There was a brilliant thread on here a while ago about what people;s workplaces do in case of fire. My favorite was the director making everyone go to the roof during the fire!

When we had air raid drill day, the intercom played this scripted newsreport about bombs and what not for almost an hour while the sirens wailed. No one blinked an eye. Lovely.

[Bibbitybop]

Back in high school in the U.S., the bomb threats were great because we would always organize a party. Most people's parents weren't home during the day, so as long as we cleared out by 5pm or so, we were safe.

Our school used to move the students across the street to the parking lot. Someone brought it to their attention that it would be easier to get a bomb in a car than in the school and they were putting the students in more danger.

[inspector gadget]

we had a fire drill last week, it was funny. All the students leave the classroom change there shoes, lock the doors and go outside. Once there they all line up in the field surrounding a steel pail with a fire in it. Then an administrative assistant grabs a fire extinguisher, squeezes the trigger and nothing comes out, everyone laughed, he then goes and gets a hose and starts spraying th fire in a pail, it doesn't go out though. Then the students all gather around a fireman and he attempts to try and explaing for ten minutes how to operate a fire extinguisher while holding a microphone. Bloody hilarious, I am certain the kids learnt nothing other than to be bloody scared if there is an actual fire.

[mindmetoo]

[Pak Yu Man]

Had a fire alarm go off at the end of one of my classes last week.

I went outside. everyone else ignored it. Like the whole freaking engineering building.

[Novernae]

We've had a problem recently where the kids 'accidentally' trigger the alarm. It's happened 3 times (during different class schedules) in the last few weeks, all during different schedules. Half the kids almost have heart attacks, freak out, cover their ears, and diligently run to the room where the alarm was set off. The rest just sit in their seat. The first kid who did it was shaking in the director's arms for quite awhile after from he fright. Through all this though, not a single person moved towards an exit.

Pulling the alarm was one of those things you always wanted to do as a kid but never did. It was unfathomable. The looks on the kids faces was precious when I explained that in Canada it is illegal to pull an alarm without cause and that there is a spray of unwashable ink to find the culprit.

[mindmetoo]