As a US student, I would like to add that none of the kids in my class thought that the shooter drills would keep us safe. Chances are, the shooter is a kid in class, so they would know all of our hiding spots.
Exactly! If they teach self- defense from a young age with appropiate techniques on how to overtake someone with a gun the shooter (being a student themselves) knows it'll be harder to shoot a school down I remember being stuck in the restroom once during a drill and I had to jump up the toilet but also being completely visible to the person outside since our restrooms had those huge gaps on the sides so I thought it was useless to "hide" my feet when they can see me through the big gaps idk there's just so much to do along with teaching your kids to not be bullies
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm 30 and we didn't have these in New York but I imagine is all lol over now. So sad. I have my kids homeschooled because of COVID and also gun violence. Plus the drills alone could cause unnecessary mental trauma. We're traumatizing kids because people or kids need mental help and we aren't getting them the help they need. Out whole country is turamatized, it's insane.
I think the huddling in place is just to reduce the amount of stray injuries. If everyone is moving in the halls there's going to be a lot more kids hurt rather than if the person has to break into each classroom.
Thankfully everyone in my class are almost the same people we studied with for more than 5 years. So we all know each other well enough that they won’t do such things.
I remember doing these when I was in middle school and a kid made a fart noise while we were hiding to be funny. The gym teacher who was walking around as the "shooter" came in and said "I heard that. And now you are all dead." Stuck with me forever.
@Rocio Flores ofc I know that, and bc it was a test or simulation id get over it. because obviously a real scenario who would do that yk? and I understood what they were saying it's just I read it in a comedic matter, that id laugh about now if it was me bc it was stupid xD
both of the girls seem to be pretty smart, they were in the korean kids reaction to gay couples in cartoons as well and came off as pretty smart and educated
Yeah she had the most emotional look, when watched the drill, thinking about how terrible it would feel in real life. I guess also because, she was the oldest among them.
I teach in Korea and am from the US. I've been doing drills like this for as long as I can remember. There was even an active shooter on my college campus one time. One day I was teaching my class and I was startled by a really loud noise. My brain immediately went into fight or flight mode. In an instant I had come up with a list of plans about how to keep my class safe. However, I quickly realized that I was in Korea and I didn't have to worry about a shooter. I think my class just thought I was startled. I'm glad their minds don't have to go where mine does
I'm from India and one of my American professor reacted the same way to a loud bang. He immediately told us to lock the doors and huddle together to which we were extremely confused about? Bc things like this don't just happen where I live. Turns out it was a monkey who had thrown the flower pot from the balcony. We all had a good laugh though
I'm currently a senior in high school and a few weeks ago while I was sitting in study hall, a kid popped a plastic bag. The whole room went silent and I could tell from the expressions around me that everybody started to panic for a few seconds. It's almost instinct at this point... not to mention the countless times where my mind wanders in class thinking about how a shooter could walk into school at any moment. I am constantly planning how I would escape if it were to happen.
@@oliviaw6397 :/ this is so sad. During my high school years, I've never really planned escape routes in class. I can't imagine living in constant fear like that. :( I wish the US govt would bring in a strict gun control law. This really isn't normal and it definitely isn't something kids should be worrying about
@@oliviaw6397 we have kids that pop bags in my school and every time it happens everyone goes silent and gets ready to hit the deck and escape or stick around and fight to get the others out safely. we have three exchange students and none of them knew why we all went quiet the first time it happened around them, a teacher had to explain during class
Honestly, I don't blame them if they never wanna come to the US lol It was my biggest fear growing up that my little brother would go to school one day and never come back, and that's not a great way to grow up - I'm glad that these kids took the subject seriously and showed concern for kids they don't know :') the one girl's last comment was really touching
I never had these drills growing up. It started after the Columbine shooting and I was already an adult. I feel sorry for kids these days. It’s not how we should raise them.
@@taoist32 from elementary to high school, I had these school shooter drills. One time, they found a locker with a hand gun in it so the whole school went into lockdown, searching for the owner.
Thank you for this - it is so important to remember that this *ISN'T* normal. My generation is way too used to this, as we grew up with it (I remember these drills right along with earthquake drills in kindergarten). Interesting contrast.
@@4ktre.deeshawn334 That isn’t technically what their saying. They are children and I don’t think the have shooting drills in most other countries. So they find it different we do their not really saying it’s common but ok.
At my high school, there was a teacher who had survived 2 active shooting incidents and she would always remind us "That fire extinguisher on the wall makes a great weapon." Every single day of my high school life I would go to school thinking "Is today the day?" sure, I have more anxiety than the average kid I went to school with, but that doesn't change the fact that I feared for my life when I was at school, no kid should have to feel that.
I thought I was the only one who feels this! I go to an alternative school in kind of a bad area and always sit in class staring at the door waiting for someone to start shooting. Im scared to go outside because of drive bys, etc. Its no way for a kid to live
Exactly I’ve been even more scared tho bc I was at the mall with my sister and my bsf when we heard a ton of shots go off, it was gang related apparently but there was so much shots no one knew if they were an active shooter or not…. Our store couldn’t lock it in time so the shooter almost got in the back with us, we locked a big group of people in a tiny bathroom… I’ve never been that scared in my entire life. Now most the time im at school im always thinking where’s a good spot to hide if a shooter was ever here
These children are very mature for their age. And this is not a good look on the U.S, in my case our drills weren’t as extreme as the ones they saw. It was mostly locking the door, turning off the light and finding a corner to hide in. Then a staff member would try to open the door. It’s sad that school shooting drills are a norm in the U.S, I cant remember a time not doing the drill
Yeah, we would just practice walking to the middle school and shutting the doors, I guess different districts have varying chances of a school shooting.
I don't live in the US, and my country little to never have a gun threat at schools here, but seeing the States with their gun problems at school, I learned many things just in case there is a threat like that in my country.
We had a less intense version of these drills in elementary school and they still terrified me. But we didn't have anything but fire and tornado drills in middle and high school (late 2000s/early 2010s). The high school I went to had a mass shooting less than a couple months ago and we're still absolutely shocked and broken. Since I left the school, they implemented ALICE training. Yet so many people were hurt and a few were killed. Not only did it fail to stop a mass shooting because it happened in the hallways, but there's no way they can continue drills like this after something happens because of the PTSD that it will trigger. It's just a bad solution overall.
In a morbid sense of the world going full circle, the first real lockdown I've had was when I was 5 years old in kindergarten. The last real lockdown was when I was a senior in high school. Quite literally, my entire school experience had been sandwiched between gun violence. I still remember the fear I felt when our teacher told us that if worse comes to worse, she'd give her life to buy us time to jump off the balcony. I might have been legally an adult then but damn if that didn't make me feel like I was 5 years old again.
What is also important to address is that, a lot of the time, the shooter drills have instructions that aren't actually useful for saving students. Many drills tell them to all hide in an enclosed area and huddle together; if the shooter breaks in, all of those children are dead unless the teacher is able to subdue the shooter, distract them, or lie at risk of their own life. And if the teacher is killed, then the children aren't far behind if the shooter decides to take a look around. Many drills tell students not to run, but to walk quietly. And while, yes, that is the best option if you know that the shooter isn't in your immediate vicinity, it doesn't help you if the shooter is around the corner. They also aren't teaching the children how to defend themselves properly, which I think should be an added component of every school's shooter drill. Along with some basic first aid like to how make a tourniquet out of a sleeve/sock and a pencil or pen. It's a horrid shame that these are the things kids have to learn now; at least with the pandemic, less school shootings have seemed to happen, as most schools are online these days. I remember being in an active shooter incident in middle school when I was 14 (15 in Korean age) and the entire thing was so nerve-wracking and terrifying. It was a miracle that the shooter never made it into the school; he was spotted before he got the chance to get in and the building went on a complete lockdown. But the windows were still a hazard, so everyone hid under tables and desks that were right in front of the windows so they wouldn't be seen. Many kids grabbed scissors, pocket knives that they had smuggled in to have just in case such a thing happened, and one kid in my class even broke a wooden stool to pass out the legs as weapons for self-defense. It was an enormous relief when the police arrived and were able to catch the potential shooter.
agreed. the whole lock the door, turn off the lights, and hide the corner doesn't work. . . . Especially when school shooters tend to be kids themselves (not always, but most times) This would have been effective had doors been the bullet proof type. But schools are too busy putting money into either: 1. schools that have "better performance" 2. spending money for useless shit like a whole new fleet of busses or a new stadium etc.
I remember in my last year of highschool my school district changed their “curriculum “ for teaching school shooting so now it’s more focused on what do in each scenario whether it’s to hide, fight, run so that’s good to know
Um…..this got me thinking, why not banned gun all together? I don’t live in is never been there. But in my country only military and police who on stings that can have or hold a gun. If you used gun in robbery you’ll be find out by police in no time, get into interrogation about 5W+1H about possessing gun. And got max sentence if there is killing involved….. how many kids should be dead before your government banned guns? I also hear in us if you walk on someone property ( like rural area of farm) you getting shoot at? Even tho you just passing by to get to point a to pint be using shortcuts. Isn’t that over dramatic to shooting someone walk over the edge of your property???
Literally this. I can't fathom schools putting money into such pointless shit instead of trying to prevent further accidents or protect their students and staff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I remember coming home and bawling my eyes out after the parkland shooting. It was horrific. There’s nothing you can do if there’s an active shooter, you just have to escape or accept your death.
I remember in kindergarten, they specifically got a person who worked at the school and was close to one of the kids in my class to bang on the door asking said kid to open it. The kid was crying and had to be shushed because you never make a sound. It taught us that anyone could snap and that no one should ever be trusted. My elementary school was also in the "bad area" of one of the US's top three dangerous cities so the school was specially designed with that in mind. All the windows had wire crossing them to prevent people from smashing in. There were two sets of heavy metal doors and you had to be buzzed in when you were locked in between them so if you were a threat, you'd be contained. The playground was in a courtyard so students would be contained, making it harder for them to be approached or leave. I remember being told (again in kindergarten) how to escape being kidnapped by being told how a girl managed to get away from a kidnapper *in our parking lot*. A man was shot to death across the street from it. On multiple occasions my sister has gone to my parents' bed because of gunshots. My cousin was a victim of a drive-by. (People taking guns and just shooting into a house as they "drive by") America shows itself to be so great and acts like it's the best country in the world, but it's honestly horrible here.
Dang, that’s seriously messed up and it’s sad how they were manipulating that kid. It also makes me grateful that I live in an area in which I'd never really heard of a drive-by until now.
@@QueamQuackers nope. My cousin luckily survived the drive by (albeit not without being severely impacted by it), but one of my mom's students survived one only because he was sharing a bed with his brother and his brother was the one who took all the shots. Said brother, obviously, died. Both of them were still in elementary school when it happened.
crazy how these kids never heard a gunshot in real life, maybe in video games or movies but when we were their age we'd hear gunshots like crazy and sometimes even experience getting shot at or shot. We have a serious gun issue here in the States.
There’s too many unaccounted/unregistered guns in the US for it to be managed. Once people started stealing them from stores during storms and soldiers selling them for side hustle we lost all chances of ever having gun control.
I am Brazilian, and in the last few years we have seen a rise on the number of shootings in schools. Last year it was at a kindergarden at a small town, and now everytime my sister goes to school I think about that. The worse part is no one is doing nothing about it. Or they will blame games or series, or they will talk about the killers on and on and when we try to speak about how bullying and mental health issues are related to these cases they will tell us we are trying to find excuses for the killers.
This was sad to watch. Last week my high school had to go through a lockdown, because an adult somehow got in the school and brought a gun. I can't imagine this happening to kids 🥲
I always found school shooting drills normal, until there was a girl in my class in High School that freaked out and couldn’t believed that we had to practice these drills. I was always desensitized to it, but when she said that I realized how fucked our school systems are and how fucked our government was. These kids are gonna grow up like me and become desensitized to these kind of drills.
It's so interesting to watch little kids who have never experienced this and hear their thoughts. I was born a month after the Columbine shooting, so I've never known any different. I had an escape plan in my head for every one of my classrooms in high school, because I was scared of the threats we got often there. My best friend once was working at her fast food job and a 15 year old was shot and killed during a fight in the restaurant. Oh and two years ago a man was shot and killed in my apartment's parking lot.... I only got an email about it and never heard anything about it after that. I can't wait to live somewhere where I don't have to think about being shot going to the grocery store.
Same I'm actually failing all my classes due to the anxiety of something like this happening and it doesn't help that there have been three threats to the school just this month and I'm constantly making and changing plans to escape and keep my friends safe and I've actually started bringing a med kit with what id need and a pocket knife and it's sad cause school should be a place to feel safe
Same here. It was my lunch period and luckily i didnt go off campus bc my friends who were outside could hear the gunshots as someone was killed. And probably less than an hour later another shooting happened. We were on soft lockdown for the rest of the day. I think around 4 shootings have happened since school started. Not to mention gun threats😞
I mean less than 5% of the population of the world are Americans. It shouldn't be surprising that the majority of people especially children will never have to deal with this in their lives.
There was a shooting false alarm at my brother school I was so scared for him and was so scared he was going to die I just want to live in a place this isn’t a thing your right
my old school had “safe haven” areas. the doors were heavy and in the event of a bomb threat (that was more likely since it was an american international school in a country with tensions with belarus and russia) the teachers would close and lock the safe haven doors. basically the lower school kids had a safe haven area in their side of the school while middle/high school’s safe haven was the upstairs room.
It’s so strange to see kids their age that don’t know about gun violence. I grew up in the states and have been doing lockdown and ALICE drills my whole life. I don’t think I have a memory of a time before I was aware that I was always in danger of being shot and killed at school. Like I knew to play dead smear my classmates blood on my face and hide in lockers cabinets and trash barrels and to never pick up the gun because then the police would kill you when I was their ages. So hearing how distanced these kids are from that kind of reality is surreal.
@@em01455 I’m glad I was in highschool and graduated right before school shooting drills really started up we only had 2 lockdowns twice and never drills with fake blood etc. I got out before it got really bad and I’m greatful
at my school, we go through an alert “checklist” called A.L.I.C.E.. its honestly soooo much better than sitting in a corner where if the shooter came in, youd be in one spot and itd be incredibly easy to kill all of us. instead, we all stand up, grab something to throw, and spread out. if the shooter comes in, we start throwing things at him. we have someone bulky standing at the door to “tackle” the shooter once hes stunned enough.
My teacher says run as far as you can away from the school and email him later to say that youre still alive. havent actually had a drill, the drill is get out as fast as possible and get to the elementary school library (which is across the road and up a steep hill). I just know im running far away and not staying inside
I work for the school system and it’s one of the things that I wished my babies (students) didn’t have to go through. I tell them all the time, you don’t have to like one another but for the love of god, please be kind. Kindness costs nothing and a lot of your fellow classmates/peers are going through things in their private life that you all couldn’t even imagine! The children in this video were so very sweet and kind and the compassionate statement the little girl said at the end I was so nice! 😭👍🏾🥰
why is it the student's responsibility to "treat others with kindness" to prevent school shootings? if a school shooting happens, i can guarantee the last thing students want to hear is "be kind", it's practically like yall are placing the blame on us. plus, a lot of bullies (or even individuals that create any form of discomfort for their peers) tend to be the shooters, so why would we want to be kind to them? for example, in my school, there's this kid who i consider to be a horrible person (racist, homophobic, anything you can think of). on top of this, he has also made threats on multiple occasions. but despite those reasons, i refuse to respect him, and i shouldn't have too in order to survive.
From what I've seen, a lot of them are cops or security people trained to do this. Some of them take it too far, there were reports of some officers doing unnecessary stuff and some companies shooting teachers with rubber bullets a year or so ago.
these kids are smart, my school does what most other schools to do, act like the classroom is empty, huddle in a corner, while the teacher hid behind the door with a crowbar. what the girl at the end said, made me tear up.
You could use that argument for fire drills or tornado drills. These active shooter drills are exactly the same. You sit in a corner of the classroom and have to door locked. There is no "psychology damage".
@@ggnore6061 that’s so not true. i had panic attacks everyday for months in first grade solely because of active shooter drills. it’s uncommon for earthquakes to be strong enough that you’d be killed by one in school and tornados happen in only certain areas. murder is one of the most terrifying things to a child, and the realization that total strangers mass murder innocent people is earth-shattering to many children. especially when reminded every month that it could happen to them
When it was near Christmas, there was a shooting at the mall that my friend and I were at. It’s still traumatizing till this day and I haven’t gone to the mall for almost a month now. The children in the video are so sweet. Especially the girl with the white, blue, and red sweater.
I hate how some people in the world have to do shooting drills like a norm, I can’t imagine what it’s like as a child knowing there are other people in the world who want to harm others
its crazy to me too. ever since preschool we would do active shooter drills, and bomb/shooter threats were a monthly thing, i never realized it wasn't a worldwide drill until a couple years ago.
Well that’s life and they’ll have to learn it eventually-ever heard of “stranger danger”? That’s teaching children the negatives of the world but it’s important for their safety.
When I was living in the US in 3rd grade (I was 9) our school had a lockdown drill, except nobody knew it was a drill. Not even the teachers. I remember the utter fear I felt for that half-hour we were under a desk. I could hear kids around me crying, trying to be quiet as we hear footsteps moving up and down the hall. I am so thankful that it was just a drill, but I wish the school would have told us because we were all terrified.
I went to school abroad for several years so coming back to the U.S., it was jarring my freshman orientation at Uni to have my first real gun discussion. The jarring part being when they asked who has been in an active shooter drill before, everyone who wasn’t an international student raised their hand. That image sticks with me. It’s one thing to read the news and feel sympathy, it’s another to actually be here and it being a possibility. And yeah a lot of my classmates and friends were told by their parents to not apply to Universities in the U.S. and that fear will definitely influence more kids to not come here, or come back to the U.S.
ah yes I remember the wonderful talk we would get once a year about this where they reminded us that if you were in the hallways when it happened you had to find the nearest room, take anyone near you in too and than lock the door. Fun part was that after you lock that door you aren't allowed to unlock it for anything...so if a student took too long to find a place to hide they would be trapped in the hallways.
Elementary school, a kid was locked outside during recess cause he took too long to get back inside. Thankfully nothing happened because this wasn't a drill.
This makes me emotional. I've been a staff before in these drills, and watching the kids huddle together in the dark. As an adult, I feel responsible for them and want to save them. It's very lucky not all children from different societies do not have to deal with this.
As a US college student my elementary middle school and high school days were literally terrifying. It felt like every week a new school would get shot up and it being on the news. The news scared me because of that and I would be going to school in fear everyday hoping I make it back alive. Especially thinking that the shooter could literally be next to you or in the same classroom.
As a US student, these drills are scarier the older you get, cause you realize that the shooter could be one of your classmates and you understand that if it is, then the shooter knows your plan and how to get through the doors to whoever they want dead.
I've been through a actual school shooting before and let me tell you it was the scariest thing I ever been through. I would never want anybody to go through this and I'm glad that we practice these type of things because they are a common and serious things that happen in the states. this is part of the reason why I want to live in Korea.
It's a bit funny/sad seeing this, because myself and several of my teacher friends (who have taught here in the US for years) have either recently or are about to go to Korea to teach instead, specifically because of the danger in US schools these days. One of my friends got fed up about how bad COVID was being handled and left this year, she teaches in 전라북도 now. I'll be going next year, because I don't want to work where my chances of getting shot are so high... It's a lot to ask someone who's already underpaid and overworked, to also be willing to die.
You are exaggerating just a bit. Yes the chance of you getting shot at in a school is higher in the U.S. than it would be in Korea, but still not that high.
@@mara_q9979 if you compare it to some communities yeah it’s pretty high, a lot of people would think it’s the “hood” areas in the most danger but actually it’s the more preppy prestigious schools that are at most danger so I completely understand the wanting to move to another country
i’ve lived in the US for my whole life, so watching the drills of the children makes me a emotional. i graduated high school in 2020 & when i was still a junior (3rd year of high school) there was a threat near campus. apparently a house in the neighborhood beside our campus was robbed, so our school had to go on lockdown just in case the perpetrator would run through campus. i was in my dance class and everyone became so serious and quiet. we turned off the lights & the music, closed the blinds, locked the doors, and huddled together in a small room within our dance room. my friend started crying and i hugged her the whole time. she was scared we would die. the fact that this is a reality for children in the US is completely devastating. the robber thankfully never made it onto campus but it was still a scary experience. and unfortunately this wasn’t the only situation at my school… we were lucky to be alive but at the same time we shouldn’t have to fear for our lives at school :(
"there is a drill that ONLY kids in the US do" "It's best not to go to the states" Kinda makes it hard to be a Proud American .....just sayin "So don't forget what you learned and be a good person"
Well they're are issues in ebay country that it's citizens aren't proud of. In South Korea, they face discrimination agaisnt women, low birth rates which lead to population decline, and suicide.
@@bog4543 Yes, this is mostly propaganda from far leftist who want to ban guns. If you look at the data, the majority of shootings happen in democrat ran cities who have major anti gun laws. Plus the amount of shooting in this video is also false. The data is not true at all.
@@Darkphoenix3450 Um, where did they say guns should be banned? They didn’t lie when they said only kids in the US do this drill. Name one country where schools have students practice an active shooter drill.
@@bog4543 The number of shooting they claimed is false, the numbers are wrong, school shootings is far lower than that. Also school shooting drills are not in every school only far left leaning schools mostly cities or other danger zones, yeah democrat ran cities are the worst for gun crimes. (that is a fact.) also crimes such and school murder do to blunt weapons or knives in the UK is higher than school shootings are in America. So thinking school is unsafe in America is not looking into the data that shows deaths in other countries do to school murders are higher. Also As for other countries with Drills for school shootings Australia so yes there is that place. I know Germany used to as well at least back wen I lived there as a kid.
I've experienced many legitimate shooting threats throughout middle school and high school (I live in Texas, USA). One day there was a supposed shooter on campus and my classroom was the first room in the academic wing. Not only that, but because it was technically a lecture room, there were 2 doors- neither having the ability to lock. Though the "shooter" ended up having a bb gun instead of a real weapon, it was very harrowing to sit with only a desk protecting us students, many whom were shaking and crying. Because our doors had no locks, our 2 teachers stood at the doors to sacrifice themselves in case something happened. Long story short, I couldn't imagine being in an actual shooting situation, because even that was terrifying
I get it. I also live in Texas and there was a guy with a gun near the McDonalds at my high school. I was in the orchestra room at the time, which is the worst place because there were windows and a large open space. We all hid in our orchestra teachers office and some squeezed themselves in the instrument storage rooms. After they got the guy, everyone was shaking and I literally just drove home. I always hear gunshots in my neighborhood too. We just had a recent shooting at an elementary school in Texas. This is heinous. We need to end gun violence.
I don't think I can remember a time when I was particularly scared whenever these drills happened, and even when we had real lockdowns and real school shooting treats, I didn't find myself scared being it has become so normal occurence in my daily life. It's sad to admit, but it's true. Even in the situations where I didn't know what was happening, I could hold onto the fact that they never announced that it was a drill and still kept my nerves intact, that felt very strange to me. I hope my children will never have to grow up to that, I hope that they will be able to know that it is okay to be afraid, but that they will never have to be afraid of not being safe in their own school.
I had a real lockdown when I was in third grade. My school was next to a mall, and a shoplifter (don't know if he was armed) hopped the fence and hid on our playground. We were hidden in a dark corner for an hour. It's terrifying thinking that at any moment, someone potentially dangerous could come in and hurt you. We're very fortunate that the situation didn't escalate to that.
My friends two sons go to school in Oxford MI where a recent shooting happened. She did not send them back to school for a week. It is unconscionable that this keeps happening and our children are dying. It's shameful.
The first time I heard gunfire I also thought it was fireworks, “but a little too random.” Down the road from where I lived, a guy had gone to a busy street and started firing at cars. This was in a US city that generally ranks high on safety, particularly with regards to violent crime. I now live somewhere kind of comparatively boring, but there are still shootings from time to time. I want to say that they’re mostly interpersonal disputes or gang-related, but that doesn’t make anyone who gets shot at the mall or bar or wherever any less dead. It kind of sucks to have to think about what you would do in that situation and always be mindful that it could happen wherever you are. I was in high school during Columbine, so we never did active shooter drills, but I’ve had to do active shooter training at a couple of jobs since then.
God, this reminded me of a time when I used to live in a somewhat rough neighborhood (although tbh the people to be the most scared of were the cops bc they'd walk up and down the street harassing you if you were walking), and there was a drive-by one block away from my house. I grew up in the South so I recognized the sound of gunfire right away. Hearing it out here in the country doesn't feel alarming at all, but hearing it in a city terrified me every time I heard it, because you can't just tell yourself it's people practicing at a range.
@@solitarelee6200 I can relate. I used to hear shootings very frequently in my old neighborhoods when I was younger. It came to a point where we were just like “they’re shooting again”, which is really bad when you think about it.
I honestly never took these seriously 😭 Especially when the deans would go around banging and pulling on the doors. I always was very skeptical of how well they would work. Especially during fire drills we would all just be like “if this was real I would never do this” Though I was always scared that something would happen with me out of class which did happen during a lockdown drill and one teacher literally dragged me in her class 😂 I sure was scared then.
My mom and I watched this video, and I was telling her that one of the few memories I have from kindergarten was when we had someone break into the school. I can’t remember wether they were in possession of a weapon or not (my mom informed me that they, thankfully, didn’t) but the police were called. It was a small class that day, only about 4-7 of us, and the teachers say us down in a closet and told us to be quiet. I don’t know how long we sat there, but I can vividly remember the fear I felt uncertain of what was going on. It’s sad that we have to have school shooting drills, but they’re now a necessary part of an American student’s life.
U.S 8th grade student here! I would like to add to this video. A few days ago someone dropped a text book in the hallways and made a loud gunshot noise while everyone was in class. Everyone gasped and jumped up because we're basically programmed to think that any loud noise we hear is a gunshot. It was so loud that our teacher had to see what was going on. He said most of the teachers on that floor was peaking out their door to see what the noise was. It's just scary
A heavy book falling on the ground sounds nothing like a gunshot, its a normal human reaction to want to check out unknown loud sound(s). If someone shouted obcenities during a assembly would you go quiet? Its the same thing
@@themyththelegendphilswift3201 comment was made almost 2 years ago since I'm a sophomore now. But at the time, I didn't know what a real gunshot sounded like because I was never around guns. The way I phrased it wasn't good, but I meant that students automatically assume that a loud bang is a gunshot.
So we're around the same age, the point I was trying to make wasn't that books down sound like guns, but that its normal human instinct to want to check out loud noises, and that you may have misinterpreted that instinct from other people as them believing that it was a gunshot. @@N.o.v.aspark
I was a preschool teaching aide in the Bay Area, CA, and I experienced the most memorable active shooter drill there. The teachers and twenty 3-5 year olds hid in this huge closet and most of the kids knew to take it seriously since shootings and violence are normalized. These are *babies* we’re talking about, fearing for their lives at such a young age. And there’s only so much the teachers can do to protect the students though, you know? When the schools are underfunded, don’t have security, and only limited ways to escape the danger… Then in university, just a couple years ago, there was an active shooter threat on my campus and it was just CHAOS. I got into another student’s car- didn’t even know them- and left campus right before they locked down. Everyone was prepared to hide, run, or fight, students were texting their parents that they loved them just in case the worst happened… and we knew what to do because it’s been instilled in us since we were kids. Luckily the situation ended well and no one got hurt. Scary that we have to expect them in the first place.
Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. Someone pulled a gun in a fight on campus and the entire university went into lockdown. I ran into the nearest building, one I never had any classes in before, and this random professor just immediately pulled me into his classroom and locked the door behind me. I spent a good few hours huddled up with a group of people I’d never seen before, all fearing for our lives. Luckily everything turned out alright. Guy wasn’t even a student and nobody got hurt. But I was messed up for the rest of the day. I remember vividly, ever since I was a child, planning escape routes and survival plans for every possible situation, wherever I went. I grew up living every day like I might die. And there’s definitely a reason for that
I'm from Canada, and we have lockdowns too, but not specifically for guns but for everything in general. the worst that happened in my city was when a bear ended up on the playgrounds outside my elementary school so we had to go into lockdown in case the bear ended up getting in. if I ever heard the sound a gun makes, id never thought it was an actual gun.
One thing to remember is that even drills like this can be traumatic to students even if it isn’t a real shooting. These drills are unnecessary and give many kids PTSD.
Here's the thing. I feel like alot of schools don't even take it seriously. Even if the school "feels" like it does. They need to make sure students are actually serious about it because there's ones who joke around or don't take it seriously. I'm not saying it's all but it's some schools
Honestly, everyone at my school has long since learned that the drills won't actually keep us safe; at this point, there are very high chances that the shooter knows how the drills work, so we wouldn't be truly safe anyway. We've(at least my grade) kind of collectively decided that if an active threat was actually in the building, we would break the windows, jump out, and run into the neighborhood. Running for our lives is probably safer than staying in the building.
I just remember my HS doing a shooting drill where we were supposed to have locked the door with something but didn't, so the administrator running around campus testing doors slammed ours open and shouted "YOU'RE ALL DEAD!" at us before running through the rest of the school. I remember most everyone laughed it off but it was definitely really unsettling looking back at how normalized these drills are.
i remember last year, the first school day in 2021 after winter break, everything was normal. we were all excited to see our friends again. but then during the last five minutes of last period, we got an announcement on the speakers saying we were going into lockdown. apparently there was a bomb threat so fbi and police and military came to our school. i was in the portables for my last period and we watched through the windows as soldiers with guns and armor walked by our class. we stayed at school for another 3 or 4 hours until we finally got an all clear. i don’t think they ever caught the guy who had the bomb.
as a us student, i would like to add that it’s very rare to cover students in paint or hire people just to go through the drill. And i agree with their thoughts of not wanting to come to america, shootings are the things i’m scared of most. It’s truly terrible that this happens.
I remember being in 3rd grade and all of a sudden my school went into lockdown out of nowhere. The teachers were all terrified, so we knew it wasn’t just a drill. For the longest time, no one told us what had happened. I eventually found out there was a bomb threat.
I remember our drills growing up, was just ‘turn off the lights, huddle together in the cubbie area, don’t make any noise’ - a principle helper would come around and jiggle the lock, there were never any fake shooters. Sometimes the teachers would stand by the closed door with a blunt weapon, like a bat or a chair, tho. I do remember that when we were really little, like kindergarten to second grade (5-7) they didn’t want to tell us that the drill was an active shooter drill, so instead they just called it ‘lock down’ and said it was in case anyone or anything broke into the building, like a rabid fox. Didn’t know why we needed to close the blinds and lock the doors when foxes don’t have thumbs but I guess it made sense to tiny me idk lol.
Being an American kid is scary. My mom everyday before letting me go into elementary would say “if there’s a shooter on the school ground, you hide and keep yourself shielded”, which is not something a parent should have to tell their kid, but unfortunately our country is that unsafe. I remember the first time I had properly understood a school shooting.. there was a high school in my city, back like 9-ish years ago, that had a gun man who was opening fire. Our school was warned about it straight away, and so long after that, even months, i was terrified of going to school, which is not something a 7 year old should have to fear. School should be a happy place, for kids to learn and make friends. So sad.
I’m in 8th grade and so we hide in the back closets. They are quite big but it’s about 100 kids being crammed into a storage closet. We had a alert because our school is next to a neighborhood. So when there was shots in the neighborhood, we all got crammed together. It’s scary, especially because my sister goes to the same school.
I genuinely felt sad knowing this is our reality. It's so upsetting that it even keeps people from other countries away. And I don't blame them. I just hope one day this wasn't something we had to get used to. I had a lock down drill just a few days ago and just realizing how out of control and vulnerable our lives are, it hurts.
I've been through two threats. One in high school and one in college. College threat was scarier than high school. I remembered everyone scrambling onto any public bus they can to get the fuck out of college cuz there was an anonymous message left in the boys bathroom. It stated people were going to die if they don't leave before 2pm that day. Sadly its not even schools or colleges anymore. My JOB has been shot at TWICE. The MALL has had shooting accidents 4 TIMES within a month. My fucking staterbrothers was shot up. THIS ISNT NORMAL. THIS ISNT OK. I am BEYOND PISSED that nothing is being done.
As someone from the US who did active shooter drills, where the drama kids would act as the "victims" part of the drill was listening to your friends bang on the doors begging for help. But you're not allowed to let them in. It's refreshing hearing these kids learn about it.
I was in 6th grade when Columbine happened, and I don't think we started having active shooter drills until... I went to college. How crazy is that? Once we had a lockdown because someone robbed a gas station with a gun and fled into the woods near the school, but that was it. Now the high schools in my town have threats all the time.
It’s so sad to me that children suffer for the poor choices of adults in the US. As a kid born in the US it’s incredibly disappointing to see that the past is valued more than the lives of children.
As a American i can confirm ITS VERY SCARY, BUT, also a good opportunity to sit really really really close to a crush 😂 also wait until you tell them sometimes KIDS are the shooters 😬
This depends on which state you live in, and county, We didn't have any drills like this where i'm from (Long Island) until after 9/11. Even on that day everyone was confused as to why we were huddled in the school cafeteria as we never had an experience like that beforehand. Only Fire drills. My parents told me they had drills of what to do if a nuclear attack happened though, I'm not certain which year they had stopped those.
If I were a Korean kid, I’d be afraid to go to America too…but our media makes it seem like there are school shootings everyday, and EVERYWHERE in this country - and that’s not true!
I mean we’re less than one full month into 2022 and there have already been 4 which have injured or killed people. I think looking at it more as a whole issue is important too like zooming out from just school specifically. While I don’t know the stats for every year in both 2019 and 2021 there have been more mass shootings than days in a year - 2021 being double. (Keep in mind we were in lockdown for 2020 which had an affect I’m sure)
It happens too frequently. Our country has the most school shooting related incidents. I’m American and it’s painfully embarrassing when children from other countries have more sense than our politicians do
I mean, I know that it is not happening ALL the time, but for example, I am a spaniard and I have never even seen a gun in person nor heard a gunshot in real life. In Europe there is no such thing as school shootings. My point here is that even though it might not happen all the time, the fact that it happens even just once should not be normalised. I would be scared for my life just walking on the streets in the US simply for knowing there are people who are not the Police walking around with guns and a license to use them freely. That, in my opinion, is the problem.
Maybe not everyday but the number is still not a good amount. But if we're talking about shootings in general in the US, there's easily over thousands. I think the reason why we still have so many shootings is because the consequences are ridiculous and too many white male shooters are getting away with it. I mean look at Nikolas Cruz who still doesn't have a sentence and it's been 3 years since he shot up that school in Parkland Florida
I live in Canada, and in my school we just stay quiet in the classroom with the door locked and the blinds down there’s no fake shooter or fake dead people though
We don’t call them active shooter drills where I live, they’re just called lockdowns. My choir teacher has a back room in the class and she has said we are not going in there in a shooter situation because if they get in we are just sitting ducks in a confined space. I don’t know if my school is at risk of a shooter but one time before I was going there a student lit a match in a bathroom and threw it in the trash can, they got arrested. There was another time where someone literally smeared poop on the wall in one of the boys bathrooms.
I know every country has its problems…but as a US kid who’s never lived somewhere else it’s so nice to know that there are kids in the world who don’t live with this fear of being shot by their classmates. It makes me disappointed of our schools, but glad for others💛
when I was younger I dreamed about leaving in USA. So I participated in work exchange programm. I went to USA and lived there for half of a year. And it was the most unsafe time in my life. I moved there with my friend and she worked in subway and one time at night shift a man threatened her with a weapon. And another case we were waching salute on the bridge and there were aggresive man with a gun in the crowd. and I was surprised how many homeless and crazy people on the street, cause i didn't see it often in my country. and also was shocked that people smocking illigal stuff on the street. so i moved back home 2 months earlier
it really goes to show how awful it is here in the US that when I read this title, I gasped and said out loud, "Don't show them that!" This is a US problem and seeing kids who are lucky enough to not have this problem being exposed to it is really sad for me.
Even as a Canadian, I'm traumatized. I didn't know in the US they had shooter drills is it that common for a shooter to come?? In Canada, we have Fire Drills, Tornado Drills, and lockdown drills(when ANYTHING dangerous enters the building).
I was lucky enough to never have to deal with an active shooter drill or school shooting. I grew up in a small town in Texas and graduated back in 2012, so I didn’t have to face this harsh reality. My heart goes out to these kids who have been traumatized by both the drill and the shootings, and the poor families whose babies didn’t come home.
I’d go through these drills all the time in elementary school and never connected the dots that it was because someone wanted to harm us until I was in middle school. I just always though that it was if some accident happened in the hallways and we needed to clear out. The teachers never really emphasized the idea that the drills were for dangerous situations, and we just took it as a normal thing we had to practice for every month or so. I find that very shocking now.
Where I live in Canada we had a few similar drills. "Code Red" and "Code Yellow". Yellow meant that students were causing disruptance, so like a fight or something, one time a girl tried to break a window, another kid broke his leg really badly on the schoolyard. It just meant we had to close the doors and stay in the classroom Code Red, meant that someone had entered the school without signing in. We were never really focused on guns because gun violence here isn't very common, (although recently there's been an increase which is really.. yeah) Anyways, I also didn't put together that we were hiding from a person who possibly wanted to cause harm until there was a code red, in the third grade after hours during an after school program for kids whose parents worked late..so instead of a teacher who's done this drill a lot and prepared multiple times yearly, it was a college student YMCA worker. I've never seen a group of kids be so quiet, it was honestly terrifying. Long story short; guy who came in was on drugs, said he wanted to pick up his daughter, she had already been picked up when school ended by her mom-he wasn't allowed near her, so basically he was trying to kidnap her, but everything turned out fine. I imagine how scared we were at that moment, and how much more amplified that would be if we assumed or knew that the man had a gun, and that's how American kids feel probably all the time to some extent. It's grotesque, really, how normalized it is.
@@Spidertheidiot i wish my school did codes. in the far north of Canada we only do "hold and secure" which is basically just lockdowns, and when something happened like a kid broke his leg, we were all put in a specific place with no reason so it really freaked us out
I have lived in the US my whole life and school shooter drills aren’t very much like described in the video for me. My school just tells us to lock the door, close the windows, and get in a corner of the room while the principal walks around the school jiggling the door handles to make sure they are locked. Do other people in the US actually have to do these drills like this?? It sounds really scary and if it were described to me like this I wouldn’t want to be here either.
I have a few German exchange students in my school and their English is limited. I see a lot of Europeans laugh about the gun issues we have here, so I can't imagine being away from home and being in a lockdown. And we were. It was terrifying.
I haven’t gone through a school shooting personally, but in my freshman year my school got a bomb threat so we had to lock down for like 2 hours for the school to be checked, the closest thing to a shooting was in like 2nd grade a couple were arm because they were fighting and there wasn’t any fence or wall between my school and the apartment complex
Thats still pretty crazy... During my elementary days there was a time where we had to evacuate the building because of a bomb threat too. It turned out to be art supplies lol.
I remember me and my classmates would race for the safe hiding space just in case. It was a save our selves type of thing... The kids that wouldn't get the spots would huddle together and try to make ourselves look "hidden" in each other. (This is just what my grade done when we had this drills)
@@PandaHeroCommunity again gun crime in places like the south is rare they have the least gun control just saying removing guns doesn't remove the culture of school shootings its very easy to illegally obtain guns and its equally easy to make weapons restrictions for the most part do nothing
@@shugo1047 yeah its not a legislated issue its a social issue like knife crime in the uk no matter how many laws you use to cover the issue it doesn't go away idk how people think this is a guns fault school shootings are a recent social phenomenon based around the mental illness crisis within America this links to the corruption within the medical community and big pharma not allowing heath care to be generally affordable to the masses this creates social problems like drug abuse and school shootings (to name a few) trying to cover up the problem by blaming it on guns just seems like a cover up to me
@@PandaHeroCommunity dude you cant if someone is determine enough anything is possible do you really think you can take away everyone's guns in America you cant its impossible. it seems you are being the gullible one this is a social issue do you know what that means guns have been around for hundreds of years in America all of a sudden school shootings are happening maybe it would be an idea to find out the cause of the problem instead of burying in until it explodes. the uk has basically been trying for the last 10 years to reduce knife crime trough legislation it hasn't worked its gotten worse. other countries aren't the same as America you are generalising issues, maybe we should take your advice and just not help these people who are so tormented they want to kill kids or should we use our power to create a country where can can find treatment and they wont even try to commit a school shooting in the first place you are ignorant and gullible yourself. it seems you are consuming all this propaganda about America and wont even research yourself to find your own facts the south which has the most guns in America has the lowest gun crime rate maybe you should explain why this isnt a social issue then
seeing their innocence regarding this topic actually breaks my heart for american kids, including my younger self.. my most prominent memory from elementary school was an active shooter drill when i was 7 years old in california. neither the kids nor the teachers were told that it was just a drill, so we were all being evaluated on how well we could execute the plan (although at that time it was very much "sit and wait" instead of any information about self-defense). i don't think i'll ever forget that 2-hour experience and the helplessness i felt from that point on, all the way through college. when it comes to guns, american kids lose their innocence before they ever really understand what's going on.
Im 24 now but i remember being in school, in class, and looking out the window planning an escape route just in case something were to happen, now whenever i go out in public i always look for possible hiding places in case something were to happen, and if im in a store i automatically think of an "escape route" and memorize all possible exits. I always thought that this was just "normal" or w.e but whenever i come across one of these videos it reminds me that this isn't "normal" and that its fear and PTSD. I recall this one video of a motorcycle backfiring on the street and everyone thought that it was a gunshot and went running. Its so sad..
i've already been in 2 actual lockdowns in my life, once in 3rd grade when this lady wanted to come into the building but wouldn't show her ID and somehow got into the school, and one in 5th grade when someone had a gun on school grounds or like in the area around the school. in the last one everyone thought that the police officer that came to tell us it was safe was the shooter trying to lure us out. luckily he was an actual officer and we all got out safely
Super late but growing up my school had seven incidents where someone had brought a gun in or a weapon was found on campus. I remember the day after the first time, where students had to be searched and there where police officers stationed around campus. My worst memory of the day is when I told my friends I would jump in front of them so they had time to get out of the school, and they yelled at me, all clamoring to be the one to sacrifice themselves. The school was completely silent except for a few kids crying. We where in sixth grade when we argued about who would give their life. I don’t know how I made it out of that school.
That’s a big part of the problem. A lot of drills only focus on threats that come from outside the building. Lockdown situations are much more likely to be caused by a student rather than an outside adult. And if the threat is already inside, it’s a lot harder to deal with
I'm a 14 year old American student (15 for you guys), and listening to these kids occasionally laugh and giggle was insanely uncomfortable. I don't blame them in the slightest, it sounds absolutely ridiculous to someone who's probably never seen or even heard a gun irl, but just... it's painful, you know? It's a real fear we have and something that our government is doing essentially nothing to stop. It sucks. Real dang bad.
I'll stay in America. You're chances of getting shot in a school are so low and gun laws are different in every state. In my home state Hawaii, school shootings have never happened here. Its more fun in the US in my opinion because the country is massive. No matter where you go, it's going to be different and the environment, climate and even the poeple are so diverse. South Korea is not the place for me since most of the citizens there are overworked, high suicide rates, and discrimination of women is widespread. No offense to South Korea, it's a really awesome place. I'd love to visit but not live there.
@@chadnguyen4596 To each their own, America is only worth it if you don't live in poverty or in the ghetto. I grew up walking to school seeing empty herion bags, used needles and drug addicts passed out on the streets. Women who talk like the men do, a place where you only make it if you have money, power, drugs, or fame. Maybe you don't have to walk around in fear everyday, its not just school shootings that make this country bad. Even the police are killing innocent people. Maybe I should have been born to a middle class family in washington.
@@chadnguyen4596 As much as I want to love the US, I just can’t. How fucked is it that you can go bankrupt for needing a medical procedure? I’d like to live without that worry. Some months ago, an elderly man in my city was shot by a passing car. He was simply gardening and got shot. He wasn’t even wearing gang-related colors. I can’t stand how everything is politicized. Like how the hell have we managed to mess up the pandemic? I genuinely believe my mental health will improve if I move out of the country, so I’ll fight if I have to. I’m not planning on going to Korea, maybe Norway or Germany, that sounds good.
@@YamiTheEevee my life in America has been great. What I love about America is that the people here are so diverse. There are over 50 million immigrants who live here and come from all over the world. The US is kind of like Europe in that every state is it's own country with its own laws and culture. The many natural beauties here like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Hawaii and Alaska are absolutely stunning and better than Europe. The climate/topography here is also diverse; you got deserts, tundra, tropical rainforest, deciduous forests you name it. If you want to move out go right ahead. For me, I don't care about guns and expenisive healthcare, I'm staying.
@@chadnguyen4596 I will admit, the landscapes are beautiful here, especially my state, but that’s not gonna fix all of the issues I have with this country. And there *are* beautiful areas in Europe, Switzerland looks like a 3D render at times. I just want to get affordable mental help so I don’t constantly feel like shit, and also ease my mind when I go skating so I don’t worry about a broken bone. And have a walkable city. And better public transportation. And not get screwed by student debt. And have better paid time off. And not be the laughing stock of the world for once. I’m not saying all other countries are flawless, but the grass is always a little bit greener elsewhere.
@@steelthroat what do you even mean yeah I never said killing kids was a light social issue it's just that pretending that banning guns would do anything is ignorant especially since the states with the most legislation and restrictions against guns are the ones with the most gun crime so it's obvious that more legislation wouldn't work instead finding the root cause and solving it would result in a much better outcome
@@coryhawley738 idk man but where I live we don't own guns and I never had to tell my parents "hey goin' to school, hope someone doesn't shoot me huun~"
@@coryhawley738 also the root of the problem are guns themselves, no guns no shootings no? Yeah it would be good finding another root of the problem and resolve it but I think it's more safe to just not have guns around, don't you agree?
The story that I’m about to tell you is about a high speed chase that happened at my school, this was luckily a few months ago like whenever I started school but now I still think about it. So my class is usually the first class to leave the campus and we don’t go in the middle and go on like this side thing that the campus has and I was the first one to go out, and I was already running but as soon as I seen a man in the mask I believe he was wearing a ski head, Blue jeans and he was on a ski bike. And I ran faster than my life at that moment luckily I got inside the campus and no one was harmed but I heard one of my classmates cra and that honestly traumatized me to this day. Thank you for seeing this.
As a US student, I would like to add that none of the kids in my class thought that the shooter drills would keep us safe. Chances are, the shooter is a kid in class, so they would know all of our hiding spots.
Exactly! If they teach self- defense from a young age with appropiate techniques on how to overtake someone with a gun the shooter (being a student themselves) knows it'll be harder to shoot a school down
I remember being stuck in the restroom once during a drill and I had to jump up the toilet but also being completely visible to the person outside since our restrooms had those huge gaps on the sides so I thought it was useless to "hide" my feet when they can see me through the big gaps idk there's just so much to do along with teaching your kids to not be bullies
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm 30 and we didn't have these in New York but I imagine is all lol over now. So sad. I have my kids homeschooled because of COVID and also gun violence. Plus the drills alone could cause unnecessary mental trauma. We're traumatizing kids because people or kids need mental help and we aren't getting them the help they need. Out whole country is turamatized, it's insane.
I think the huddling in place is just to reduce the amount of stray injuries. If everyone is moving in the halls there's going to be a lot more kids hurt rather than if the person has to break into each classroom.
Damn scary
Thankfully everyone in my class are almost the same people we studied with for more than 5 years. So we all know each other well enough that they won’t do such things.
I remember doing these when I was in middle school and a kid made a fart noise while we were hiding to be funny. The gym teacher who was walking around as the "shooter" came in and said "I heard that. And now you are all dead." Stuck with me forever.
I wouldve died laughing bc of that xD
@@athenasn its not even funny tho
@@Bunnyhomic1de I know but im saying the comedic part of that because I know how serious it is id laugh bc the dumb mistake
@Rocio Flores ofc I know that, and bc it was a test or simulation id get over it. because obviously a real scenario who would do that yk? and I understood what they were saying it's just I read it in a comedic matter, that id laugh about now if it was me bc it was stupid xD
@Rocio Flores A mistake is doing something that is dumb or wrong then there's regret or wtv after so its okk xD
The girl in the blue/white/red striped sweater is so smart. That was such a sweet thing to say at the end 😭
both of the girls seem to be pretty smart, they were in the korean kids reaction to gay couples in cartoons as well and came off as pretty smart and educated
Yeah she had the most emotional look, when watched the drill, thinking about how terrible it would feel in real life. I guess also because, she was the oldest among them.
shes nearly 12 shes kinda old so that is why
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I teach in Korea and am from the US. I've been doing drills like this for as long as I can remember. There was even an active shooter on my college campus one time. One day I was teaching my class and I was startled by a really loud noise. My brain immediately went into fight or flight mode. In an instant I had come up with a list of plans about how to keep my class safe. However, I quickly realized that I was in Korea and I didn't have to worry about a shooter. I think my class just thought I was startled. I'm glad their minds don't have to go where mine does
I'm from India and one of my American professor reacted the same way to a loud bang. He immediately told us to lock the doors and huddle together to which we were extremely confused about? Bc things like this don't just happen where I live. Turns out it was a monkey who had thrown the flower pot from the balcony. We all had a good laugh though
I'm currently a senior in high school and a few weeks ago while I was sitting in study hall, a kid popped a plastic bag. The whole room went silent and I could tell from the expressions around me that everybody started to panic for a few seconds. It's almost instinct at this point... not to mention the countless times where my mind wanders in class thinking about how a shooter could walk into school at any moment. I am constantly planning how I would escape if it were to happen.
@@oliviaw6397 :/ this is so sad. During my high school years, I've never really planned escape routes in class. I can't imagine living in constant fear like that. :( I wish the US govt would bring in a strict gun control law. This really isn't normal and it definitely isn't something kids should be worrying about
@@oliviaw6397 we have kids that pop bags in my school and every time it happens everyone goes silent and gets ready to hit the deck and escape or stick around and fight to get the others out safely. we have three exchange students and none of them knew why we all went quiet the first time it happened around them, a teacher had to explain during class
In Asia you gotta worry about serial stabbings.
There was a dude that went into a Japanese elementary school and killed children.
Honestly, I don't blame them if they never wanna come to the US lol
It was my biggest fear growing up that my little brother would go to school one day and never come back, and that's not a great way to grow up - I'm glad that these kids took the subject seriously and showed concern for kids they don't know :') the one girl's last comment was really touching
I never had these drills growing up. It started after the Columbine shooting and I was already an adult. I feel sorry for kids these days. It’s not how we should raise them.
@@taoist32 from elementary to high school, I had these school shooter drills. One time, they found a locker with a hand gun in it so the whole school went into lockdown, searching for the owner.
Same
You must have some kind of anxiety or paranoia as the chance of a relative dying in a school shooting is extremely low
@@mintyfresh4855 the same exact thing happened to me. We all thought that day was gonna be our last.
The awareness of that child! "You could be one of those shooters so don't forget what you saw here and remember to be a good person" the empathy!
Thank you for this - it is so important to remember that this *ISN'T* normal. My generation is way too used to this, as we grew up with it (I remember these drills right along with earthquake drills in kindergarten). Interesting contrast.
I agree. Some people that don’t live in the US try to make it seem like school shootings are common for us.
@@4ktre.deeshawn334 That isn’t technically what their saying. They are children and I don’t think the have shooting drills in most other countries. So they find it different we do their not really saying it’s common but ok.
The us generation in other countries it’s not normal
I'm 30 and I remember having only tornado drills and fire drills up until high school when school shooting were becoming more common
@@wooziistheace442 you're right, in other countries there are no shooting drills, I didn't even know that existed until a year or so ago
At my high school, there was a teacher who had survived 2 active shooting incidents and she would always remind us "That fire extinguisher on the wall makes a great weapon." Every single day of my high school life I would go to school thinking "Is today the day?" sure, I have more anxiety than the average kid I went to school with, but that doesn't change the fact that I feared for my life when I was at school, no kid should have to feel that.
I thought I was the only one who feels this! I go to an alternative school in kind of a bad area and always sit in class staring at the door waiting for someone to start shooting. Im scared to go outside because of drive bys, etc. Its no way for a kid to live
Exactly I’ve been even more scared tho bc I was at the mall with my sister and my bsf when we heard a ton of shots go off, it was gang related apparently but there was so much shots no one knew if they were an active shooter or not…. Our store couldn’t lock it in time so the shooter almost got in the back with us, we locked a big group of people in a tiny bathroom… I’ve never been that scared in my entire life. Now most the time im at school im always thinking where’s a good spot to hide if a shooter was ever here
These children are very mature for their age. And this is not a good look on the U.S, in my case our drills weren’t as extreme as the ones they saw. It was mostly locking the door, turning off the light and finding a corner to hide in. Then a staff member would try to open the door. It’s sad that school shooting drills are a norm in the U.S, I cant remember a time not doing the drill
No worries, you know what the saying is; LET’S FIGHT GUNS WITH WHAT PEOPLE??!?! MORE GUNS AND SACRIFICING STUDENTS 🙃🥲😞😞
Yeah, we would just practice walking to the middle school and shutting the doors, I guess different districts have varying chances of a school shooting.
I don't live in the US, and my country little to never have a gun threat at schools here, but seeing the States with their gun problems at school, I learned many things just in case there is a threat like that in my country.
I can, I'm old enough that I remember a before Columbine. :( As a teacher now, it really breaks my heart into pieces.
We had a less intense version of these drills in elementary school and they still terrified me. But we didn't have anything but fire and tornado drills in middle and high school (late 2000s/early 2010s). The high school I went to had a mass shooting less than a couple months ago and we're still absolutely shocked and broken. Since I left the school, they implemented ALICE training. Yet so many people were hurt and a few were killed. Not only did it fail to stop a mass shooting because it happened in the hallways, but there's no way they can continue drills like this after something happens because of the PTSD that it will trigger. It's just a bad solution overall.
In a morbid sense of the world going full circle, the first real lockdown I've had was when I was 5 years old in kindergarten. The last real lockdown was when I was a senior in high school. Quite literally, my entire school experience had been sandwiched between gun violence. I still remember the fear I felt when our teacher told us that if worse comes to worse, she'd give her life to buy us time to jump off the balcony. I might have been legally an adult then but damn if that didn't make me feel like I was 5 years old again.
That really sucks and I had a similar experience when I was 6 and fortunately, it was a false alarm.
What city
What is also important to address is that, a lot of the time, the shooter drills have instructions that aren't actually useful for saving students. Many drills tell them to all hide in an enclosed area and huddle together; if the shooter breaks in, all of those children are dead unless the teacher is able to subdue the shooter, distract them, or lie at risk of their own life. And if the teacher is killed, then the children aren't far behind if the shooter decides to take a look around.
Many drills tell students not to run, but to walk quietly. And while, yes, that is the best option if you know that the shooter isn't in your immediate vicinity, it doesn't help you if the shooter is around the corner. They also aren't teaching the children how to defend themselves properly, which I think should be an added component of every school's shooter drill. Along with some basic first aid like to how make a tourniquet out of a sleeve/sock and a pencil or pen. It's a horrid shame that these are the things kids have to learn now; at least with the pandemic, less school shootings have seemed to happen, as most schools are online these days.
I remember being in an active shooter incident in middle school when I was 14 (15 in Korean age) and the entire thing was so nerve-wracking and terrifying. It was a miracle that the shooter never made it into the school; he was spotted before he got the chance to get in and the building went on a complete lockdown. But the windows were still a hazard, so everyone hid under tables and desks that were right in front of the windows so they wouldn't be seen. Many kids grabbed scissors, pocket knives that they had smuggled in to have just in case such a thing happened, and one kid in my class even broke a wooden stool to pass out the legs as weapons for self-defense. It was an enormous relief when the police arrived and were able to catch the potential shooter.
agreed. the whole lock the door, turn off the lights, and hide the corner doesn't work.
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Especially when school shooters tend to be kids themselves (not always, but most times)
This would have been effective had doors been the bullet proof type. But schools are too busy putting money into either:
1. schools that have "better performance"
2. spending money for useless shit like a whole new fleet of busses or a new stadium etc.
I remember in my last year of highschool my school district changed their “curriculum “ for teaching school shooting so now it’s more focused on what do in each scenario whether it’s to hide, fight, run so that’s good to know
Um…..this got me thinking, why not banned gun all together? I don’t live in is never been there. But in my country only military and police who on stings that can have or hold a gun. If you used gun in robbery you’ll be find out by police in no time, get into interrogation about 5W+1H about possessing gun. And got max sentence if there is killing involved….. how many kids should be dead before your government banned guns? I also hear in us if you walk on someone property ( like rural area of farm) you getting shoot at? Even tho you just passing by to get to point a to pint be using shortcuts. Isn’t that over dramatic to shooting someone walk over the edge of your property???
Literally this. I can't fathom schools putting money into such pointless shit instead of trying to prevent further accidents or protect their students and staff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I remember coming home and bawling my eyes out after the parkland shooting. It was horrific. There’s nothing you can do if there’s an active shooter, you just have to escape or accept your death.
I remember in kindergarten, they specifically got a person who worked at the school and was close to one of the kids in my class to bang on the door asking said kid to open it. The kid was crying and had to be shushed because you never make a sound. It taught us that anyone could snap and that no one should ever be trusted. My elementary school was also in the "bad area" of one of the US's top three dangerous cities so the school was specially designed with that in mind. All the windows had wire crossing them to prevent people from smashing in. There were two sets of heavy metal doors and you had to be buzzed in when you were locked in between them so if you were a threat, you'd be contained. The playground was in a courtyard so students would be contained, making it harder for them to be approached or leave. I remember being told (again in kindergarten) how to escape being kidnapped by being told how a girl managed to get away from a kidnapper *in our parking lot*. A man was shot to death across the street from it. On multiple occasions my sister has gone to my parents' bed because of gunshots. My cousin was a victim of a drive-by. (People taking guns and just shooting into a house as they "drive by") America shows itself to be so great and acts like it's the best country in the world, but it's honestly horrible here.
Dang, that’s seriously messed up and it’s sad how they were manipulating that kid. It also makes me grateful that I live in an area in which I'd never really heard of a drive-by until now.
i feel so bad about the kid. It shows how a young kid can get manipulated and may get killed and their classmates as well.
Wtf you’re not even safe in your house?
@@QueamQuackers nope. My cousin luckily survived the drive by (albeit not without being severely impacted by it), but one of my mom's students survived one only because he was sharing a bed with his brother and his brother was the one who took all the shots. Said brother, obviously, died. Both of them were still in elementary school when it happened.
crazy how these kids never heard a gunshot in real life, maybe in video games or movies but when we were their age we'd hear gunshots like crazy and sometimes even experience getting shot at or shot. We have a serious gun issue here in the States.
I know, it's strange to think about
I heard that it's illegal to own a gun in South Korea
There’s too many unaccounted/unregistered guns in the US for it to be managed. Once people started stealing them from stores during storms and soldiers selling them for side hustle we lost all chances of ever having gun control.
@@JaysTae3534 it's illegal to own guns almost everywhere in the world aside from the U.S
yeahh i hear gun shots on a regular basis its really weird to hear how it is in other countries
I am Brazilian, and in the last few years we have seen a rise on the number of shootings in schools. Last year it was at a kindergarden at a small town, and now everytime my sister goes to school I think about that.
The worse part is no one is doing nothing about it. Or they will blame games or series, or they will talk about the killers on and on and when we try to speak about how bullying and mental health issues are related to these cases they will tell us we are trying to find excuses for the killers.
This was sad to watch. Last week my high school had to go through a lockdown, because an adult somehow got in the school and brought a gun. I can't imagine this happening to kids 🥲
Oh shit
The same thing happened when I was in elementary school. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but it was still a scary situation.
@@sunnymori6132 No luckily the cops came in quick and took the guy away
Same
I always found school shooting drills normal, until there was a girl in my class in High School that freaked out and couldn’t believed that we had to practice these drills. I was always desensitized to it, but when she said that I realized how fucked our school systems are and how fucked our government was. These kids are gonna grow up like me and become desensitized to these kind of drills.
It's so interesting to watch little kids who have never experienced this and hear their thoughts. I was born a month after the Columbine shooting, so I've never known any different. I had an escape plan in my head for every one of my classrooms in high school, because I was scared of the threats we got often there. My best friend once was working at her fast food job and a 15 year old was shot and killed during a fight in the restaurant. Oh and two years ago a man was shot and killed in my apartment's parking lot.... I only got an email about it and never heard anything about it after that. I can't wait to live somewhere where I don't have to think about being shot going to the grocery store.
Same I'm actually failing all my classes due to the anxiety of something like this happening and it doesn't help that there have been three threats to the school just this month and I'm constantly making and changing plans to escape and keep my friends safe and I've actually started bringing a med kit with what id need and a pocket knife and it's sad cause school should be a place to feel safe
Same here. It was my lunch period and luckily i didnt go off campus bc my friends who were outside could hear the gunshots as someone was killed. And probably less than an hour later another shooting happened. We were on soft lockdown for the rest of the day. I think around 4 shootings have happened since school started. Not to mention gun threats😞
I mean less than 5% of the population of the world are Americans. It shouldn't be surprising that the majority of people especially children will never have to deal with this in their lives.
A kid my age was shot a week ago by a senior at a school in my district
There was a shooting false alarm at my brother school I was so scared for him and was so scared he was going to die I just want to live in a place this isn’t a thing your right
my old school had “safe haven” areas. the doors were heavy and in the event of a bomb threat (that was more likely since it was an american international school in a country with tensions with belarus and russia) the teachers would close and lock the safe haven doors. basically the lower school kids had a safe haven area in their side of the school while middle/high school’s safe haven was the upstairs room.
The disconnect in just how serious and sad this is really shows when the first concern is whether or not you're wearing white clothes.
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It’s so strange to see kids their age that don’t know about gun violence. I grew up in the states and have been doing lockdown and ALICE drills my whole life. I don’t think I have a memory of a time before I was aware that I was always in danger of being shot and killed at school. Like I knew to play dead smear my classmates blood on my face and hide in lockers cabinets and trash barrels and to never pick up the gun because then the police would kill you when I was their ages. So hearing how distanced these kids are from that kind of reality is surreal.
@@em01455 I’m glad I was in highschool and graduated right before school shooting drills really started up we only had 2 lockdowns twice and never drills with fake blood etc. I got out before it got really bad and I’m greatful
@@em01455 USA is so weird. They could always make gun possession illegal like the rest of the world but they chose not too..
at my school, we go through an alert “checklist” called A.L.I.C.E.. its honestly soooo much better than sitting in a corner where if the shooter came in, youd be in one spot and itd be incredibly easy to kill all of us. instead, we all stand up, grab something to throw, and spread out. if the shooter comes in, we start throwing things at him. we have someone bulky standing at the door to “tackle” the shooter once hes stunned enough.
Yeah same, except we are still supposed to try to barricade the doors first, and we only attack if the shooter actually enters our classroom.
My teacher says run as far as you can away from the school and email him later to say that youre still alive. havent actually had a drill, the drill is get out as fast as possible and get to the elementary school library (which is across the road and up a steep hill). I just know im running far away and not staying inside
I work for the school system and it’s one of the things that I wished my babies (students) didn’t have to go through. I tell them all the time, you don’t have to like one another but for the love of god, please be kind. Kindness costs nothing and a lot of your fellow classmates/peers are going through things in their private life that you all couldn’t even imagine! The children in this video were so very sweet and kind and the compassionate statement the little girl said at the end I was so nice! 😭👍🏾🥰
why is it the student's responsibility to "treat others with kindness" to prevent school shootings? if a school shooting happens, i can guarantee the last thing students want to hear is "be kind", it's practically like yall are placing the blame on us.
plus, a lot of bullies (or even individuals that create any form of discomfort for their peers) tend to be the shooters, so why would we want to be kind to them? for example, in my school, there's this kid who i consider to be a horrible person (racist, homophobic, anything you can think of). on top of this, he has also made threats on multiple occasions. but despite those reasons, i refuse to respect him, and i shouldn't have too in order to survive.
I love how each kid was like “IM NEVER GOING TO THE STATES” they have the right idea it’s pretty bad here😂
you're telling me some guy gets paid to run around a school with a fake gun aiming at kids and teachers.
From what I've seen, a lot of them are cops or security people trained to do this. Some of them take it too far, there were reports of some officers doing unnecessary stuff and some companies shooting teachers with rubber bullets a year or so ago.
these kids are smart, my school does what most other schools to do, act like the classroom is empty, huddle in a corner, while the teacher hid behind the door with a crowbar. what the girl at the end said, made me tear up.
I am fairly sure these active shooter drills have caused untold amounts of psychological damage to kids.
that's the intended outcome..
100% the plan. doea anyone remember who it was... maybe 10 years ago who said america needs every child to experience the trauma of clombine?
You could use that argument for fire drills or tornado drills. These active shooter drills are exactly the same. You sit in a corner of the classroom and have to door locked. There is no "psychology damage".
@@ggnore6061 i think they were talking about the ones with gunshot sounds and fake dead bodies but idk
@@ggnore6061 that’s so not true. i had panic attacks everyday for months in first grade solely because of active shooter drills. it’s uncommon for earthquakes to be strong enough that you’d be killed by one in school and tornados happen in only certain areas. murder is one of the most terrifying things to a child, and the realization that total strangers mass murder innocent people is earth-shattering to many children. especially when reminded every month that it could happen to them
When it was near Christmas, there was a shooting at the mall that my friend and I were at. It’s still traumatizing till this day and I haven’t gone to the mall for almost a month now.
The children in the video are so sweet. Especially the girl with the white, blue, and red sweater.
I hate how some people in the world have to do shooting drills like a norm, I can’t imagine what it’s like as a child knowing there are other people in the world who want to harm others
Did your parents not tell you to stay away from strangers?
its crazy to me too. ever since preschool we would do active shooter drills, and bomb/shooter threats were a monthly thing, i never realized it wasn't a worldwide drill until a couple years ago.
@@kaelee1209 may i ask why people do that? is that just their psychological state or do they do it because of beef or stuffs like that?
@@hlahla6964 it can be both. mostly it is their psychological state.
Well that’s life and they’ll have to learn it eventually-ever heard of “stranger danger”? That’s teaching children the negatives of the world but it’s important for their safety.
When I was living in the US in 3rd grade (I was 9) our school had a lockdown drill, except nobody knew it was a drill. Not even the teachers. I remember the utter fear I felt for that half-hour we were under a desk. I could hear kids around me crying, trying to be quiet as we hear footsteps moving up and down the hall. I am so thankful that it was just a drill, but I wish the school would have told us because we were all terrified.
After a lesson about Pirates of the Caribbean. I had to explain to my Korean students what KIDNAPPING was. I was like wow. I wish I had grown up here.
How old were they? I learned about kidnapping probably even as young as kindergarten (I live in the US so that makes sense)
I went to school abroad for several years so coming back to the U.S., it was jarring my freshman orientation at Uni to have my first real gun discussion. The jarring part being when they asked who has been in an active shooter drill before, everyone who wasn’t an international student raised their hand. That image sticks with me. It’s one thing to read the news and feel sympathy, it’s another to actually be here and it being a possibility. And yeah a lot of my classmates and friends were told by their parents to not apply to Universities in the U.S. and that fear will definitely influence more kids to not come here, or come back to the U.S.
ah yes I remember the wonderful talk we would get once a year about this where they reminded us that if you were in the hallways when it happened you had to find the nearest room, take anyone near you in too and than lock the door. Fun part was that after you lock that door you aren't allowed to unlock it for anything...so if a student took too long to find a place to hide they would be trapped in the hallways.
Elementary school, a kid was locked outside during recess cause he took too long to get back inside. Thankfully nothing happened because this wasn't a drill.
This makes me emotional. I've been a staff before in these drills, and watching the kids huddle together in the dark. As an adult, I feel responsible for them and want to save them. It's very lucky not all children from different societies do not have to deal with this.
The levels of disconnect knowing that they will probably never in life have to experience something like this (thank god)
As a US college student my elementary middle school and high school days were literally terrifying. It felt like every week a new school would get shot up and it being on the news. The news scared me because of that and I would be going to school in fear everyday hoping I make it back alive. Especially thinking that the shooter could literally be next to you or in the same classroom.
As a US student, these drills are scarier the older you get, cause you realize that the shooter could be one of your classmates and you understand that if it is, then the shooter knows your plan and how to get through the doors to whoever they want dead.
I've been through a actual school shooting before and let me tell you it was the scariest thing I ever been through. I would never want anybody to go through this and I'm glad that we practice these type of things because they are a common and serious things that happen in the states. this is part of the reason why I want to live in Korea.
It's a bit funny/sad seeing this, because myself and several of my teacher friends (who have taught here in the US for years) have either recently or are about to go to Korea to teach instead, specifically because of the danger in US schools these days. One of my friends got fed up about how bad COVID was being handled and left this year, she teaches in 전라북도 now. I'll be going next year, because I don't want to work where my chances of getting shot are so high... It's a lot to ask someone who's already underpaid and overworked, to also be willing to die.
You are exaggerating just a bit. Yes the chance of you getting shot at in a school is higher in the U.S. than it would be in Korea, but still not that high.
@@mara_q9979 if you compare it to some communities yeah it’s pretty high, a lot of people would think it’s the “hood” areas in the most danger but actually it’s the more preppy prestigious schools that are at most danger so I completely understand the wanting to move to another country
Please don't! Korea does not need far leftist with no understanding of reality messing with those poor kids heads.
@@brisavarela0325 That is false your words is not backed by the facts.
@@brisavarela0325 LOL what are you talking about, you're completely wrong about which schools are most in danger.
i’ve lived in the US for my whole life, so watching the drills of the children makes me a emotional. i graduated high school in 2020 & when i was still a junior (3rd year of high school) there was a threat near campus. apparently a house in the neighborhood beside our campus was robbed, so our school had to go on lockdown just in case the perpetrator would run through campus. i was in my dance class and everyone became so serious and quiet. we turned off the lights & the music, closed the blinds, locked the doors, and huddled together in a small room within our dance room. my friend started crying and i hugged her the whole time. she was scared we would die. the fact that this is a reality for children in the US is completely devastating. the robber thankfully never made it onto campus but it was still a scary experience. and unfortunately this wasn’t the only situation at my school… we were lucky to be alive but at the same time we shouldn’t have to fear for our lives at school :(
"there is a drill that ONLY kids in the US do"
"It's best not to go to the states"
Kinda makes it hard to be a Proud American .....just sayin
"So don't forget what you learned and be a good person"
Did they lie?
Well they're are issues in ebay country that it's citizens aren't proud of. In South Korea, they face discrimination agaisnt women, low birth rates which lead to population decline, and suicide.
@@bog4543 Yes, this is mostly propaganda from far leftist who want to ban guns. If you look at the data, the majority of shootings happen in democrat ran cities who have major anti gun laws. Plus the amount of shooting in this video is also false. The data is not true at all.
@@Darkphoenix3450 Um, where did they say guns should be banned? They didn’t lie when they said only kids in the US do this drill. Name one country where schools have students practice an active shooter drill.
@@bog4543 The number of shooting they claimed is false, the numbers are wrong, school shootings is far lower than that. Also school shooting drills are not in every school only far left leaning schools mostly cities or other danger zones, yeah democrat ran cities are the worst for gun crimes. (that is a fact.) also crimes such and school murder do to blunt weapons or knives in the UK is higher than school shootings are in America. So thinking school is unsafe in America is not looking into the data that shows deaths in other countries do to school murders are higher. Also
As for other countries with Drills for school shootings Australia so yes there is that place. I know Germany used to as well at least back wen I lived there as a kid.
I've experienced many legitimate shooting threats throughout middle school and high school (I live in Texas, USA).
One day there was a supposed shooter on campus and my classroom was the first room in the academic wing. Not only that, but because it was technically a lecture room, there were 2 doors- neither having the ability to lock.
Though the "shooter" ended up having a bb gun instead of a real weapon, it was very harrowing to sit with only a desk protecting us students, many whom were shaking and crying. Because our doors had no locks, our 2 teachers stood at the doors to sacrifice themselves in case something happened.
Long story short, I couldn't imagine being in an actual shooting situation, because even that was terrifying
I get it. I also live in Texas and there was a guy with a gun near the McDonalds at my high school. I was in the orchestra room at the time, which is the worst place because there were windows and a large open space. We all hid in our orchestra teachers office and some squeezed themselves in the instrument storage rooms. After they got the guy, everyone was shaking and I literally just drove home. I always hear gunshots in my neighborhood too. We just had a recent shooting at an elementary school in Texas. This is heinous. We need to end gun violence.
I don't think I can remember a time when I was particularly scared whenever these drills happened, and even when we had real lockdowns and real school shooting treats, I didn't find myself scared being it has become so normal occurence in my daily life. It's sad to admit, but it's true. Even in the situations where I didn't know what was happening, I could hold onto the fact that they never announced that it was a drill and still kept my nerves intact, that felt very strange to me. I hope my children will never have to grow up to that, I hope that they will be able to know that it is okay to be afraid, but that they will never have to be afraid of not being safe in their own school.
I had a real lockdown when I was in third grade. My school was next to a mall, and a shoplifter (don't know if he was armed) hopped the fence and hid on our playground. We were hidden in a dark corner for an hour. It's terrifying thinking that at any moment, someone potentially dangerous could come in and hurt you. We're very fortunate that the situation didn't escalate to that.
My friends two sons go to school in Oxford MI where a recent shooting happened. She did not send them back to school for a week. It is unconscionable that this keeps happening and our children are dying. It's shameful.
I'm a 90s baby from the United states so I went to school before these drills. I honestly cried watching this. It isn't normal and it isn't ok
The first time I heard gunfire I also thought it was fireworks, “but a little too random.” Down the road from where I lived, a guy had gone to a busy street and started firing at cars. This was in a US city that generally ranks high on safety, particularly with regards to violent crime.
I now live somewhere kind of comparatively boring, but there are still shootings from time to time. I want to say that they’re mostly interpersonal disputes or gang-related, but that doesn’t make anyone who gets shot at the mall or bar or wherever any less dead. It kind of sucks to have to think about what you would do in that situation and always be mindful that it could happen wherever you are. I was in high school during Columbine, so we never did active shooter drills, but I’ve had to do active shooter training at a couple of jobs since then.
God, this reminded me of a time when I used to live in a somewhat rough neighborhood (although tbh the people to be the most scared of were the cops bc they'd walk up and down the street harassing you if you were walking), and there was a drive-by one block away from my house. I grew up in the South so I recognized the sound of gunfire right away. Hearing it out here in the country doesn't feel alarming at all, but hearing it in a city terrified me every time I heard it, because you can't just tell yourself it's people practicing at a range.
@@solitarelee6200 I can relate. I used to hear shootings very frequently in my old neighborhoods when I was younger. It came to a point where we were just like “they’re shooting again”, which is really bad when you think about it.
I honestly never took these seriously 😭 Especially when the deans would go around banging and pulling on the doors. I always was very skeptical of how well they would work. Especially during fire drills we would all just be like “if this was real I would never do this” Though I was always scared that something would happen with me out of class which did happen during a lockdown drill and one teacher literally dragged me in her class 😂 I sure was scared then.
My mom and I watched this video, and I was telling her that one of the few memories I have from kindergarten was when we had someone break into the school. I can’t remember wether they were in possession of a weapon or not (my mom informed me that they, thankfully, didn’t) but the police were called. It was a small class that day, only about 4-7 of us, and the teachers say us down in a closet and told us to be quiet. I don’t know how long we sat there, but I can vividly remember the fear I felt uncertain of what was going on. It’s sad that we have to have school shooting drills, but they’re now a necessary part of an American student’s life.
U.S 8th grade student here!
I would like to add to this video. A few days ago someone dropped a text book in the hallways and made a loud gunshot noise while everyone was in class. Everyone gasped and jumped up because we're basically programmed to think that any loud noise we hear is a gunshot. It was so loud that our teacher had to see what was going on. He said most of the teachers on that floor was peaking out their door to see what the noise was. It's just scary
A heavy book falling on the ground sounds nothing like a gunshot, its a normal human reaction to want to check out unknown loud sound(s).
If someone shouted obcenities during a assembly would you go quiet? Its the same thing
@@themyththelegendphilswift3201 comment was made almost 2 years ago since I'm a sophomore now. But at the time, I didn't know what a real gunshot sounded like because I was never around guns. The way I phrased it wasn't good, but I meant that students automatically assume that a loud bang is a gunshot.
So we're around the same age, the point I was trying to make wasn't that books down sound like guns, but that its normal human instinct to want to check out loud noises, and that you may have misinterpreted that instinct from other people as them believing that it was a gunshot. @@N.o.v.aspark
I was a preschool teaching aide in the Bay Area, CA, and I experienced the most memorable active shooter drill there. The teachers and twenty 3-5 year olds hid in this huge closet and most of the kids knew to take it seriously since shootings and violence are normalized. These are *babies* we’re talking about, fearing for their lives at such a young age. And there’s only so much the teachers can do to protect the students though, you know? When the schools are underfunded, don’t have security, and only limited ways to escape the danger…
Then in university, just a couple years ago, there was an active shooter threat on my campus and it was just CHAOS. I got into another student’s car- didn’t even know them- and left campus right before they locked down. Everyone was prepared to hide, run, or fight, students were texting their parents that they loved them just in case the worst happened… and we knew what to do because it’s been instilled in us since we were kids. Luckily the situation ended well and no one got hurt. Scary that we have to expect them in the first place.
Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. Someone pulled a gun in a fight on campus and the entire university went into lockdown. I ran into the nearest building, one I never had any classes in before, and this random professor just immediately pulled me into his classroom and locked the door behind me. I spent a good few hours huddled up with a group of people I’d never seen before, all fearing for our lives. Luckily everything turned out alright. Guy wasn’t even a student and nobody got hurt. But I was messed up for the rest of the day. I remember vividly, ever since I was a child, planning escape routes and survival plans for every possible situation, wherever I went. I grew up living every day like I might die. And there’s definitely a reason for that
I'm from Canada, and we have lockdowns too, but not specifically for guns but for everything in general. the worst that happened in my city was when a bear ended up on the playgrounds outside my elementary school so we had to go into lockdown in case the bear ended up getting in. if I ever heard the sound a gun makes, id never thought it was an actual gun.
I CANT I CANT, THE BOY WITH THE AMONG SHIRT I CANT RBEAHT
One thing to remember is that even drills like this can be traumatic to students even if it isn’t a real shooting. These drills are unnecessary and give many kids PTSD.
These shooting drills are necessary I would rather know what to do/what not to do than know nothing
i am already 25 yrs old, not from US, and have never heard a real gunshot all my life. That sounds scary and traumatizing. I hope those kids stay safe
Here's the thing. I feel like alot of schools don't even take it seriously. Even if the school "feels" like it does. They need to make sure students are actually serious about it because there's ones who joke around or don't take it seriously. I'm not saying it's all but it's some schools
Honestly, everyone at my school has long since learned that the drills won't actually keep us safe; at this point, there are very high chances that the shooter knows how the drills work, so we wouldn't be truly safe anyway. We've(at least my grade) kind of collectively decided that if an active threat was actually in the building, we would break the windows, jump out, and run into the neighborhood. Running for our lives is probably safer than staying in the building.
I just remember my HS doing a shooting drill where we were supposed to have locked the door with something but didn't, so the administrator running around campus testing doors slammed ours open and shouted "YOU'RE ALL DEAD!" at us before running through the rest of the school. I remember most everyone laughed it off but it was definitely really unsettling looking back at how normalized these drills are.
this is terrifying! also the girl in the white blue and red sweater is very smart also very pretty
i remember last year, the first school day in 2021 after winter break, everything was normal. we were all excited to see our friends again. but then during the last five minutes of last period, we got an announcement on the speakers saying we were going into lockdown. apparently there was a bomb threat so fbi and police and military came to our school. i was in the portables for my last period and we watched through the windows as soldiers with guns and armor walked by our class. we stayed at school for another 3 or 4 hours until we finally got an all clear. i don’t think they ever caught the guy who had the bomb.
as a us student, i would like to add that it’s very rare to cover students in paint or hire people just to go through the drill. And i agree with their thoughts of not wanting to come to america, shootings are the things i’m scared of most. It’s truly terrible that this happens.
I remember being in 3rd grade and all of a sudden my school went into lockdown out of nowhere. The teachers were all terrified, so we knew it wasn’t just a drill. For the longest time, no one told us what had happened. I eventually found out there was a bomb threat.
I remember our drills growing up, was just ‘turn off the lights, huddle together in the cubbie area, don’t make any noise’ - a principle helper would come around and jiggle the lock, there were never any fake shooters. Sometimes the teachers would stand by the closed door with a blunt weapon, like a bat or a chair, tho.
I do remember that when we were really little, like kindergarten to second grade (5-7) they didn’t want to tell us that the drill was an active shooter drill, so instead they just called it ‘lock down’ and said it was in case anyone or anything broke into the building, like a rabid fox. Didn’t know why we needed to close the blinds and lock the doors when foxes don’t have thumbs but I guess it made sense to tiny me idk lol.
Being an American kid is scary. My mom everyday before letting me go into elementary would say “if there’s a shooter on the school ground, you hide and keep yourself shielded”, which is not something a parent should have to tell their kid, but unfortunately our country is that unsafe. I remember the first time I had properly understood a school shooting.. there was a high school in my city, back like 9-ish years ago, that had a gun man who was opening fire. Our school was warned about it straight away, and so long after that, even months, i was terrified of going to school, which is not something a 7 year old should have to fear. School should be a happy place, for kids to learn and make friends. So sad.
I’m in 8th grade and so we hide in the back closets. They are quite big but it’s about 100 kids being crammed into a storage closet. We had a alert because our school is next to a neighborhood. So when there was shots in the neighborhood, we all got crammed together. It’s scary, especially because my sister goes to the same school.
I genuinely felt sad knowing this is our reality. It's so upsetting that it even keeps people from other countries away. And I don't blame them. I just hope one day this wasn't something we had to get used to. I had a lock down drill just a few days ago and just realizing how out of control and vulnerable our lives are, it hurts.
The girls worried about their white jeans being ruined by getting shot, so innocent 😢
I've been through two threats. One in high school and one in college. College threat was scarier than high school. I remembered everyone scrambling onto any public bus they can to get the fuck out of college cuz there was an anonymous message left in the boys bathroom. It stated people were going to die if they don't leave before 2pm that day.
Sadly its not even schools or colleges anymore. My JOB has been shot at TWICE. The MALL has had shooting accidents 4 TIMES within a month. My fucking staterbrothers was shot up. THIS ISNT NORMAL. THIS ISNT OK. I am BEYOND PISSED that nothing is being done.
Pretty normal for the states
As someone from the US who did active shooter drills, where the drama kids would act as the "victims" part of the drill was listening to your friends bang on the doors begging for help. But you're not allowed to let them in.
It's refreshing hearing these kids learn about it.
I was in 6th grade when Columbine happened, and I don't think we started having active shooter drills until... I went to college. How crazy is that? Once we had a lockdown because someone robbed a gas station with a gun and fled into the woods near the school, but that was it. Now the high schools in my town have threats all the time.
Thank you for making this video. It’s helpful to American students that this isn’t normal. That other countries don’t do this. The kids were so sweet.
It’s so sad to me that children suffer for the poor choices of adults in the US. As a kid born in the US it’s incredibly disappointing to see that the past is valued more than the lives of children.
The words "this is a drill that only kids in the US do" is so sad. If I ever have children I hope they never have to grow up fearing for their lives.
This was a surprise reaction.
As a American i can confirm ITS VERY SCARY, BUT, also a good opportunity to sit really really really close to a crush 😂 also wait until you tell them sometimes KIDS are the shooters 😬
This depends on which state you live in, and county, We didn't have any drills like this where i'm from (Long Island) until after 9/11. Even on that day everyone was confused as to why we were huddled in the school cafeteria as we never had an experience like that beforehand. Only Fire drills. My parents told me they had drills of what to do if a nuclear attack happened though, I'm not certain which year they had stopped those.
Okay but Koreans and Japanese kids and grownups are always so goddamn BEAUTIFUL 🥲
If I were a Korean kid, I’d be afraid to go to America too…but our media makes it seem like there are school shootings everyday, and EVERYWHERE in this country - and that’s not true!
I agree!
I mean we’re less than one full month into 2022 and there have already been 4 which have injured or killed people. I think looking at it more as a whole issue is important too like zooming out from just school specifically. While I don’t know the stats for every year in both 2019 and 2021 there have been more mass shootings than days in a year - 2021 being double. (Keep in mind we were in lockdown for 2020 which had an affect I’m sure)
It happens too frequently. Our country has the most school shooting related incidents. I’m American and it’s painfully embarrassing when children from other countries have more sense than our politicians do
I mean, I know that it is not happening ALL the time, but for example, I am a spaniard and I have never even seen a gun in person nor heard a gunshot in real life. In Europe there is no such thing as school shootings. My point here is that even though it might not happen all the time, the fact that it happens even just once should not be normalised. I would be scared for my life just walking on the streets in the US simply for knowing there are people who are not the Police walking around with guns and a license to use them freely. That, in my opinion, is the problem.
Maybe not everyday but the number is still not a good amount. But if we're talking about shootings in general in the US, there's easily over thousands.
I think the reason why we still have so many shootings is because the consequences are ridiculous and too many white male shooters are getting away with it. I mean look at Nikolas Cruz who still doesn't have a sentence and it's been 3 years since he shot up that school in Parkland Florida
I live in Canada, and in my school we just stay quiet in the classroom with the door locked and the blinds down there’s no fake shooter or fake dead people though
We don’t call them active shooter drills where I live, they’re just called lockdowns. My choir teacher has a back room in the class and she has said we are not going in there in a shooter situation because if they get in we are just sitting ducks in a confined space. I don’t know if my school is at risk of a shooter but one time before I was going there a student lit a match in a bathroom and threw it in the trash can, they got arrested. There was another time where someone literally smeared poop on the wall in one of the boys bathrooms.
I know every country has its problems…but as a US kid who’s never lived somewhere else it’s so nice to know that there are kids in the world who don’t live with this fear of being shot by their classmates. It makes me disappointed of our schools, but glad for others💛
when I was younger I dreamed about leaving in USA. So I participated in work exchange programm. I went to USA and lived there for half of a year. And it was the most unsafe time in my life. I moved there with my friend and she worked in subway and one time at night shift a man threatened her with a weapon. And another case we were waching salute on the bridge and there were aggresive man with a gun in the crowd. and I was surprised how many homeless and crazy people on the street, cause i didn't see it often in my country. and also was shocked that people smocking illigal stuff on the street. so i moved back home 2 months earlier
it really goes to show how awful it is here in the US that when I read this title, I gasped and said out loud, "Don't show them that!"
This is a US problem and seeing kids who are lucky enough to not have this problem being exposed to it is really sad for me.
Even as a Canadian, I'm traumatized. I didn't know in the US they had shooter drills is it that common for a shooter to come?? In Canada, we have Fire Drills, Tornado Drills, and lockdown drills(when ANYTHING dangerous enters the building).
Watching this video made me go back in middle school or kindergarten the anxiety and fear I had being afraid that day will come. Its really scary.
I was lucky enough to never have to deal with an active shooter drill or school shooting. I grew up in a small town in Texas and graduated back in 2012, so I didn’t have to face this harsh reality. My heart goes out to these kids who have been traumatized by both the drill and the shootings, and the poor families whose babies didn’t come home.
I’d go through these drills all the time in elementary school and never connected the dots that it was because someone wanted to harm us until I was in middle school. I just always though that it was if some accident happened in the hallways and we needed to clear out. The teachers never really emphasized the idea that the drills were for dangerous situations, and we just took it as a normal thing we had to practice for every month or so. I find that very shocking now.
Where I live in Canada we had a few similar drills. "Code Red" and "Code Yellow". Yellow meant that students were causing disruptance, so like a fight or something, one time a girl tried to break a window, another kid broke his leg really badly on the schoolyard. It just meant we had to close the doors and stay in the classroom
Code Red, meant that someone had entered the school without signing in. We were never really focused on guns because gun violence here isn't very common, (although recently there's been an increase which is really.. yeah)
Anyways, I also didn't put together that we were hiding from a person who possibly wanted to cause harm until there was a code red, in the third grade after hours during an after school program for kids whose parents worked late..so instead of a teacher who's done this drill a lot and prepared multiple times yearly, it was a college student YMCA worker. I've never seen a group of kids be so quiet, it was honestly terrifying.
Long story short; guy who came in was on drugs, said he wanted to pick up his daughter, she had already been picked up when school ended by her mom-he wasn't allowed near her, so basically he was trying to kidnap her, but everything turned out fine.
I imagine how scared we were at that moment, and how much more amplified that would be if we assumed or knew that the man had a gun, and that's how American kids feel probably all the time to some extent. It's grotesque, really, how normalized it is.
@@Spidertheidiot i wish my school did codes. in the far north of Canada we only do "hold and secure" which is basically just lockdowns, and when something happened like a kid broke his leg, we were all put in a specific place with no reason so it really freaked us out
I have lived in the US my whole life and school shooter drills aren’t very much like described in the video for me. My school just tells us to lock the door, close the windows, and get in a corner of the room while the principal walks around the school jiggling the door handles to make sure they are locked. Do other people in the US actually have to do these drills like this?? It sounds really scary and if it were described to me like this I wouldn’t want to be here either.
yes, please dont send ur babies to study abroad in america. its not safe here, they might not come back
I have a few German exchange students in my school and their English is limited. I see a lot of Europeans laugh about the gun issues we have here, so I can't imagine being away from home and being in a lockdown.
And we were. It was terrifying.
Plenty of pedo’s roaming around free instead of being jailed for life too.
I haven’t gone through a school shooting personally, but in my freshman year my school got a bomb threat so we had to lock down for like 2 hours for the school to be checked, the closest thing to a shooting was in like 2nd grade a couple were arm because they were fighting and there wasn’t any fence or wall between my school and the apartment complex
Thats still pretty crazy... During my elementary days there was a time where we had to evacuate the building because of a bomb threat too. It turned out to be art supplies lol.
@@UndeadPlayer1 yeah it’s scary, especially as you get older you know pre teens and teens are more prone to doing it
I remember me and my classmates would race for the safe hiding space just in case. It was a save our selves type of thing... The kids that wouldn't get the spots would huddle together and try to make ourselves look "hidden" in each other.
(This is just what my grade done when we had this drills)
The girl with blue white and red sweater literally love her reactions 😭 she’s so cute
Waiting for our American special friends to explain why they think teachers should have gun instead of removing their weapons.
"special" is one way to describe them alright...
@@PandaHeroCommunity again gun crime in places like the south is rare they have the least gun control just saying removing guns doesn't remove the culture of school shootings its very easy to illegally obtain guns and its equally easy to make weapons restrictions for the most part do nothing
@@shugo1047 yeah its not a legislated issue its a social issue like knife crime in the uk no matter how many laws you use to cover the issue it doesn't go away idk how people think this is a guns fault school shootings are a recent social phenomenon based around the mental illness crisis within America this links to the corruption within the medical community and big pharma not allowing heath care to be generally affordable to the masses this creates social problems like drug abuse and school shootings (to name a few) trying to cover up the problem by blaming it on guns just seems like a cover up to me
@@PandaHeroCommunity dude you cant if someone is determine enough anything is possible do you really think you can take away everyone's guns in America you cant its impossible. it seems you are being the gullible one this is a social issue do you know what that means guns have been around for hundreds of years in America all of a sudden school shootings are happening maybe it would be an idea to find out the cause of the problem instead of burying in until it explodes. the uk has basically been trying for the last 10 years to reduce knife crime trough legislation it hasn't worked its gotten worse. other countries aren't the same as America you are generalising issues, maybe we should take your advice and just not help these people who are so tormented they want to kill kids or should we use our power to create a country where can can find treatment and they wont even try to commit a school shooting in the first place you are ignorant and gullible yourself. it seems you are consuming all this propaganda about America and wont even research yourself to find your own facts the south which has the most guns in America has the lowest gun crime rate maybe you should explain why this isnt a social issue then
@@PandaHeroCommunity you are so slow as to not understand this issue isn't the government's job
seeing their innocence regarding this topic actually breaks my heart for american kids, including my younger self.. my most prominent memory from elementary school was an active shooter drill when i was 7 years old in california. neither the kids nor the teachers were told that it was just a drill, so we were all being evaluated on how well we could execute the plan (although at that time it was very much "sit and wait" instead of any information about self-defense). i don't think i'll ever forget that 2-hour experience and the helplessness i felt from that point on, all the way through college. when it comes to guns, american kids lose their innocence before they ever really understand what's going on.
Im 24 now but i remember being in school, in class, and looking out the window planning an escape route just in case something were to happen, now whenever i go out in public i always look for possible hiding places in case something were to happen, and if im in a store i automatically think of an "escape route" and memorize all possible exits. I always thought that this was just "normal" or w.e but whenever i come across one of these videos it reminds me that this isn't "normal" and that its fear and PTSD. I recall this one video of a motorcycle backfiring on the street and everyone thought that it was a gunshot and went running. Its so sad..
i've already been in 2 actual lockdowns in my life, once in 3rd grade when this lady wanted to come into the building but wouldn't show her ID and somehow got into the school, and one in 5th grade when someone had a gun on school grounds or like in the area around the school. in the last one everyone thought that the police officer that came to tell us it was safe was the shooter trying to lure us out. luckily he was an actual officer and we all got out safely
i dont speak korean but did that lil girl say something like "aw fu- i hate english" 😭 me too kid, me too
I think she said that English is difficult
She definitely said hate english, shireo is very different from eoryeowo.
Super late but growing up my school had seven incidents where someone had brought a gun in or a weapon was found on campus. I remember the day after the first time, where students had to be searched and there where police officers stationed around campus. My worst memory of the day is when I told my friends I would jump in front of them so they had time to get out of the school, and they yelled at me, all clamoring to be the one to sacrifice themselves. The school was completely silent except for a few kids crying.
We where in sixth grade when we argued about who would give their life. I don’t know how I made it out of that school.
Are you not essentially training the future shooter aswell?!
Yes, because he can learn from what everyone is doing so then he just modifies his attack.
That’s a big part of the problem. A lot of drills only focus on threats that come from outside the building. Lockdown situations are much more likely to be caused by a student rather than an outside adult. And if the threat is already inside, it’s a lot harder to deal with
I'm a 14 year old American student (15 for you guys), and listening to these kids occasionally laugh and giggle was insanely uncomfortable. I don't blame them in the slightest, it sounds absolutely ridiculous to someone who's probably never seen or even heard a gun irl, but just... it's painful, you know? It's a real fear we have and something that our government is doing essentially nothing to stop. It sucks. Real dang bad.
This is why im moving to Korea ! tired of living my life in fear, definitely can't picture myself raising my future kids in America . nope
I'll stay in America. You're chances of getting shot in a school are so low and gun laws are different in every state. In my home state Hawaii, school shootings have never happened here. Its more fun in the US in my opinion because the country is massive. No matter where you go, it's going to be different and the environment, climate and even the poeple are so diverse. South Korea is not the place for me since most of the citizens there are overworked, high suicide rates, and discrimination of women is widespread. No offense to South Korea, it's a really awesome place. I'd love to visit but not live there.
@@chadnguyen4596 To each their own, America is only worth it if you don't live in poverty or in the ghetto. I grew up walking to school seeing empty herion bags, used needles and drug addicts passed out on the streets. Women who talk like the men do, a place where you only make it if you have money, power, drugs, or fame. Maybe you don't have to walk around in fear everyday, its not just school shootings that make this country bad. Even the police are killing innocent people. Maybe I should have been born to a middle class family in washington.
@@chadnguyen4596 As much as I want to love the US, I just can’t. How fucked is it that you can go bankrupt for needing a medical procedure? I’d like to live without that worry.
Some months ago, an elderly man in my city was shot by a passing car. He was simply gardening and got shot. He wasn’t even wearing gang-related colors.
I can’t stand how everything is politicized. Like how the hell have we managed to mess up the pandemic?
I genuinely believe my mental health will improve if I move out of the country, so I’ll fight if I have to. I’m not planning on going to Korea, maybe Norway or Germany, that sounds good.
@@YamiTheEevee my life in America has been great. What I love about America is that the people here are so diverse. There are over 50 million immigrants who live here and come from all over the world. The US is kind of like Europe in that every state is it's own country with its own laws and culture. The many natural beauties here like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Hawaii and Alaska are absolutely stunning and better than Europe. The climate/topography here is also diverse; you got deserts, tundra, tropical rainforest, deciduous forests you name it. If you want to move out go right ahead. For me, I don't care about guns and expenisive healthcare, I'm staying.
@@chadnguyen4596 I will admit, the landscapes are beautiful here, especially my state, but that’s not gonna fix all of the issues I have with this country. And there *are* beautiful areas in Europe, Switzerland looks like a 3D render at times.
I just want to get affordable mental help so I don’t constantly feel like shit, and also ease my mind when I go skating so I don’t worry about a broken bone. And have a walkable city. And better public transportation. And not get screwed by student debt. And have better paid time off. And not be the laughing stock of the world for once.
I’m not saying all other countries are flawless, but the grass is always a little bit greener elsewhere.
Something to think about is that the shooters were once kids too, and most likely went through the shooting drills too
America is a strange place...
not really every country has its social issues
@@coryhawley738 yeah but... shootings in schools aren't really a "light" social issue in a "first world country"
@@steelthroat what do you even mean yeah I never said killing kids was a light social issue it's just that pretending that banning guns would do anything is ignorant especially since the states with the most legislation and restrictions against guns are the ones with the most gun crime so it's obvious that more legislation wouldn't work instead finding the root cause and solving it would result in a much better outcome
@@coryhawley738 idk man but where I live we don't own guns and I never had to tell my parents "hey goin' to school, hope someone doesn't shoot me huun~"
@@coryhawley738 also the root of the problem are guns themselves, no guns no shootings no?
Yeah it would be good finding another root of the problem and resolve it but I think it's more safe to just not have guns around, don't you agree?
The story that I’m about to tell you is about a high speed chase that happened at my school, this was luckily a few months ago like whenever I started school but now I still think about it. So my class is usually the first class to leave the campus and we don’t go in the middle and go on like this side thing that the campus has and I was the first one to go out, and I was already running but as soon as I seen a man in the mask I believe he was wearing a ski head, Blue jeans and he was on a ski bike. And I ran faster than my life at that moment luckily I got inside the campus and no one was harmed but I heard one of my classmates cra and that honestly traumatized me to this day. Thank you for seeing this.