the school system does not really care about students safety

I’m a student and today I had a eye opening experience about how schools handle our safety.

my school had a false alarm lockdown triggered by a teacher accidentally hitting an emergency button, however when this was happening nobody knew that this wasn’t real. we all thought we were really in a school shooting, including the teachers. and it’s been playing on repeat over and over again in my head.

it started when me and my friends were in the hallways going to our next class. I notice that the alarms are on. the alarms are barely noticeable and silent. I think I was the only person who noticed they were on. this freaked me out, but I didn’t think it was serious .

I thought maybe there was a small kitchen fire or something. I tell this to my friends and we’re confused and looking around for what to do. we notice one of teachers looking around confused and then shutting his door and going inside even though they’re still suppose to be letting students in. that was weird we thought. no other students are freaking out at this time. some of the classroom doors are shut but we didn’t think anything of it at the time.

my friend tells me she heard a teacher say to get in a room and lock the doors and I will never forget the fear that I felt when I fully believed and so did everyone else that this could be our final day.

my friend drags me through the hallway to lead us to an exit, which took about 5 minutes as the hallways were crowded and majority of people were heading to class AS USUAL because they didn’t even know what was happening.

imagine if this was real. the amount of casualties that would have happened. my hands are shaking and my friends have tears in their eyes. we find out it was a false alarm and were expected to attend class as usual. i had a panic attack on the way to my next class.

the kids upstairs? They were given more information that there was an emergency and they were able to get locked inside rooms, however from what I’ve heard some teachers weren’t letting kids in. There were kids BANGING on the doors begging for their lives to get let in. And they weren’t. Kids were texting literal fucking goodbye messages to their families.

I overheard a student talking about the one that he sent to his mom saying “Mama, I’m sorry” and it breaks my heart .

If this had been real a lot of students wouldn’t have made it. I can’t stop thinking about this. It would have been too easy. Schools need to step up.

Submitted October 20, 2023 at 01:59PM by canyoukillmecalmly https://ift.tt/ZWrvBTn