Posted on 03/27/2012 4:35:00 AM PDT by Whenifhow
All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drills" or "relocation drills" and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an "undisclosed location". In the years since 9/11 and the Columbine school shootings, there has been a concerted effort to make school emergency drills much more "realistic" and much more intense. Unfortunately, the fact that many of these drills are deeply traumatizing many children does not seem to bother too many people. Do we really need to have "active shooter" drills where men point guns at our kids and fire blanks at them? Do we really need to have "relocation drills" where kids are rapidly herded on to buses and told that they must surrender their cell phones because they will not be allowed to call anyone? Our schools more closely resemble prison camps every single day, and it is our children that are suffering because of it.
It is also important to keep in mind that much of the time these drills are not the fault of local school administrators. Often, these drills are being mandated at the state level. Our politicians have become obsessed with "school safety" in recent years, and apparently their idea of "school safety" involves deeply traumatizing our kids.
Earlier today I was doing some research and I came across a forum where a parent was describing a relocation drill that would soon be happening at a school in Oklahoma. Well, I went to public schools all my life and nothing like this ever happened when I was growing up, so I wanted to do a little digging to see if this was actually happening around the country or if it was just an Internet rumor.
Unfortunately, what I found out was quite disturbing.
It turns out that "relocation drills" are being conducted at schools from coast to coast.
For example, the following is an excerpt from a letter to parents about a relocation drill that took place in Woodhaven, Michigan....
"Our school district continues to focus on the safety of staff, students, and our community. We have a detailed emergency plan so we can respond effectively to major catastrophes. We work closely with the fire and police departments from the City of Woodhaven and Brownstown Township to implement this plan. As part of these efforts, we are conducting a practice emergency drill on May 19th. It will begin at about 9:20 a.m. and conclude by 11:30 a.m. This practice drill will simulate a boiler explosion at Patrick Henry Middle School. We will evacuate all staff and students from PHMS, Erving Elementary School, and the Administration Building.
The Woodhaven and Brownstown Township Police and Fire Departments, DTE Energy, and staff from Wayne County RESA will help secure the buildings and monitor this practice drill. Erving Elementary staff and students will be evacuated by bus to Bates Elementary School, and PHMS students and staff will be evacuated by bus to Woodhaven High School."
But just putting kids on buses and taking them to other schools was not enough. During the drill, some students and school staff were instructed to pretend to be injured. In addition, parents were instructed not to call the school during the drill and children were instructed not to call their parents....
"As part of the drill, we will pretend that some students and staff are injured. Pretend victims will be assessed and transported to nearby triage centers. Please be aware that Hall Road and Van Horn Road may be closed to traffic for all or part of this drill. There will be a number of emergency vehicles at PHMS and Erving Elementary School during the drill. Your cooperation is necessary for this practice drill to be successful. During drills and emergencies like the one we are planning:
• Please do not telephone the school. Telephone lines are needed for drill emergency communications.
• Impress upon your children the need to follow directions and take drills seriously.
• During an evacuation drill or a real emergency, students will be kept at their school or will be evacuated to another site. They will be released only to adults listed on their emergency contact form. Any adult picking up a student (reunification) will be required to show picture identification.
• Students and parents should not communicate by cell phones during the drill or emergency situation. Students need to be attentive to the instructions from school and safety personnel."
But at least in that drill parents knew where their children would be taken.
That was not the case during a recent relocation drill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho....
"Students at Lakeside School District walked out of their schools this morning to prepare for the worst case scenario. They were transferred by bus to an off-site location in less than a hour. But it was only a drill.
Their Bus Evacuation Drill started at 9 a.m. and students were transferred to their undisclosed emergency location and returned back to school.
“As you might expect, student safety is our first priority and security is tight even during a practice,” Karyn Stockdale, district clerk, said.
It was later revealed they were bussed to Benewah Wellness Center as their acting evacuation shelter."
It was "later revealed" where the "undisclosed emergency location" was?
I am sure a whole bunch of parents were thrilled when they heard about that.
What purpose is served by herding kids on to a bus and taking them to an undisclosed location?
School officials just seem to take these little "exercises" way too seriously.
For example, check out the tone in the following excerpt from a school newsletter from one school in Pennsylvania....
"As mentioned in a separate letter in our CB Electronic Envelope last Wednesday, our school will be involved in an Off-Site Relocation Drill. This practice opportunity will sharpen our skills and provide us with the chance to review important safety procedures in the event of an emergency. This Relocation Drill is scheduled for Friday, December 16, 2011. Here are some very important reminders for all parents and families:
SAFETY IS OUR TOP PRIORITY!!!!!!
In every classroom, teachers will prepare students for this activity. To ensure that every child and adult arrives safely to the relocation site, no child will be released for any reason during this practice activity or real emergency. All parents are asked to review the detailed letter explaining the official steps for such drills and practice activities."
No child will be released for any reason?
What if there is a family emergency?
What if a child becomes very ill?
Our schools are becoming way too militarized. It really is quite frightening to see what is happening to us.
It takes a lot of effort to pack up all of the students and all of the staff at a school and ship them off to an alternate location.
The following is another example from one school in Iowa....
"The second drill is planned for Thursday at 9:15 a.m. During the second drill officials will simulate a relocation of the entire EE-12 student body and staff by school buses."
For some schools, this kind of a drill has now become a regularly scheduled yearly activity.
The following is from a school handbook in Vermont....
"Lockdown drills are practiced several times a year. In a Lockdown students remain quiet and undetectable behind a locked door. Students prepare for these drills and are supported by their teachers. Saint Albans City School practices, at least once a year, an emergency evacuation/relocation drill where we leave the school building and go to alternate sites."
Keep in mind that it says "at least once a year". That means that it could happen even more frequently if they want it to.
Some schools even have plans for students to be "housed temporarily" at alternative locations. The following is from a school website in California....
"Evacuation Plan: Requires that all building occupants leave and go to an alternate location. Evacuation may mean only going outside and away from the building until an all-clear signal is given. In some circumstances, students and staff may need to be transported and housed temporarily in another location until the Go-Home Plan can be put into operation."
In some instances, parents are encouraged not to pick their children up at all in the event of a major emergency. The following is from an article in the Washington Post....
"School administrators in the Washington area yesterday stepped up preparations for possible terrorism, and most school districts told parents that they would be prevented, or strongly discouraged, from picking up their children in the event of a biological or chemical attack."
So what measures would be taken to keep parents from getting to their children?
That is a frightening thing to think about.
But these "relocation drills" are not the only kind of drills that parents need to be aware of.
In many areas of the country, schools are holding "active shooter" drills where men in full military gear are pointing guns at children and firing blank rounds.
The following is one recent example that happened in Brecksville, Ohio....
"The emergency drill at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High involved hundreds of students, including members of the Drama Club who portrayed wounded and panicked students.
Junior Ashley Elek said Chardon High School was on their minds as they went through the very realistic looking drill, in which many students were "killed" and "wounded.""
In many areas of the country, there is not always advance notice of these "active shooter" drills. Sometimes students are told that there will be an "active shooter" drill and sometimes they are not.
Sometimes teachers do not even know that an "active shooter" drill is coming. When that happens, the results can be incredibly traumatic.
Just check out the following example from New Jersey....
"About 50 teachers at a New Jersey school experienced a terrifying moment when a shooting rampage turned out to be a drill, but the teachers didn’t know it.
It happened Aug. 28 at the Phillipsburg New Jersey Early Learning Center.
A man burst into the library and started shooting. But the gun didn’t have any bullets, just blanks.
Teachers took cover under child-sized tables, crying and trembling.
“People are crying. The girl next to me is trembling and shaking. You heard people crying. You heard other people praying. It was pretty dramatic,” one teacher said."
Can you imagine?
Why would we ever want to put our children through that?
I think that some of these twisted sickos actually enjoy the thought of making little kids pee their pants.
In some cases, children are told during these "exercises" that a particular group of Americans is attacking the school.
For example, during a terror drill at a public school in Muskegon County, Michigan, students and teachers were told that "homeschoolers" were the ones attacking them....
"The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling on Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke."
In another case in New Jersey, students were told that the gunmen were from a group of "fundamentalist Christians" called "The New Crusaders"....
"Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class."
What possible purpose do drills like those have?
Sadly, those running things keep wanting to make these kinds of drills as frequent as possible.
In New Jersey, new guidelines require that a "security drill" be held at public schools at least once a month.
As you can see from this document, an "evacuation to relocation site" drill is one of the kinds of drills that can be chosen to satisfy this requirement in New Jersey....
"The following are examples of other security drills that schools can hold:
• Shelter-in-place; Reverse evacuation; Evacuation to relocation site; Testing of school’s notification system and procedures; Testing of school’s communication system and procedures; Tabletop exercise; and Full scale exercise."
When I was growing up, there was just one kind of emergency exercise. When the fire alarm sounded, we all trudged out to the football field. We stood around and talked for a few minutes and then we went back inside.
But the environment in U.S. public schools today is totally different. Our children are being forced to endure endless "relocation drills", "lockdown drills" and "active shooter drills".
These drills are just another reason why many parents have decided that it is time to pull their kids out of the government schools entirely.
Our public schools more closely resemble prison camps than they do institutions of learning. Millions of our kids are leaving high school dumb as a rock, but they do know what to do when the alarm goes off.
So what do you think about these drills? Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below....
I am not exactly disagreeing with you, but it was evident when the incident at Chardon happened that moving the kids to the elementary school for pick-up helped secure the scene and keep the chaos afterwards to a minimum of parents randomly showing up to get their kids. In fact, I think Chardon provided actual time increments they could come get their kids.
This has never happened to my kids?
They’re preparing,to my mind,for an event in which they have time. Something they see coming.
It’s fine to disagree with me. I’m not like some other posters who get crazy if someone thinks they’re not right.
fer later
When TSHTF, we will all die, and THEY will have our children evacuated to camps, brainwashed, and raised to become the NEW Amerika.
I'm trying to figure this out. I mean once a boiler explodes isn't the danger mostly past? It isn't quite like a fire where the danger increases.
And so we had fire drills and even a couple of real fires back in the dark ages when I was a captive of the East Williston Union Free District, and we just went outside until the drill was over or the danger past. Sometimes it was even cold outside. But they never bussed us anywhere, and certainly not to an undisclosed location. Maybe they couldn't rouse the bus drivers who didn't know there was going to be an emergency, or maybe they just didn't care about us back then.
ML/NJ
MORE HIDEOUS PREP & CONDITIONING FOR
‘GESTAPO WORLD’
coming too soon to a neighborhood near most all.
Thanks for the ping!
Oh good grief. So they shouldn’t have any plan to evacuate in case of an emergency? Does it automatically mean they’re getting ready to ship them off to the crematoriums?
There’s any number of somewhat more pedestrian reasons that it might be a good idea to move the kids out in a hurry... tornado alert... toxic spill... all sorts of potential events. And you can bet that the same crowd that bellyaches about this plan would be excoriating the school for NOT having a plan if they ever needed it.
I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, but c’mon... sometimes a bus is just a bus. If they’re ever going to march us all into the death camps they sure aren’t going to need school drills to make it happen.
Schoolkids can't even go on a scheduled and planned Field Trip without a signed parental consent form but for many of these 'drills' they confiscate all cell phones and bus the kids to undisclosed locations. Stinks to high heaven as far as I'm concerned.
Wellllllllllll I had to ask myself on reading that article . . .
WHY
would these guys
http://twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/009/cuddy/1-power-elite.htm
have engineered such a policy and practice.
IT IS A GIVEN THAT
1. They do NOT have children and families' welfare in mind. They simply do NOT.
1.1 They are determined to rear children away from parents and family so that the children incorporate the satanic values of the Marxist globalist government. !DOH! This is old news, folks.
1.2 They are determined to limit conception to those that they eugenically decree to be good genetically for their notions of useful slaves for the elite and somewhat maybe for 'mankind.'
2. They are ARTISTS AT:
A) frog in the bucket incrementalism--achieving intolerably horrific goals an inconsequential millimeter at the time.
B) justifying the most hideous and ruthless schemes under the most innocuous beginnings.
3. they ARE serious about forcing 6.8 billion people into early deaths by a variety of means. That's just a fact.
Marxist Globalist Sweet National Geographic star Jacques Cousteau was blunt enough about that (see the first of the above links):
.
130."The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential...There are many ways to make the death rate Increase." Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, New Solidarity, March 30, 1981
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131.The First and Second World Wars were wars designed to kill millions were not successful enough hence the new methods outlined in the Global 2000 Report...The world is populated with too many redundant people who must not be allowed to procreate and consume scarce natural resources...The Committee of 300 (Illuminati) commissioned Cyrus Vance to write a paper on this subject of how to bring about such genocide. The paper was produced under the title 'Global 2000 Report' and was accepted and approved for action by former President James Earl Carter, and Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of States, for and on behalf of the US Government." Dr. John Coleman, former intelligence agent of British MI6, from his report, Global 2000: A Blueprint For Global Genocide, written in 1992 concerning the depopulation agenda of the Club of Rome
4. So, let us let go of this muddle headed farcical charade of a notion that the folks engineering this practice and policy are earnestly doing so in behalf of our seriously precious children. That's just not logical given all the givens.
5. So what is all this very calculated and structured movement of our children about--underneath all the whitewash and subterfuge?
6. I'm happy to be wrong. I don't think the evidence supports my being wrong. However, I've pinged the END TIMES LIST--maybe some of those brilliant minds can help me see where I'm likely wrong.
7. Personally, with the Marxist globalist traitors running:
A) D.C. and most State leadership positions;
B) All the Marxist Stream Media;
C) Banks and financial institutions;
D) movies and media production houses;
E) Energy production and distribution;
F) Education K-PhD--particularly colleges and universities but also K-12 as rapidly and thoroughly as they can;
G) land use laws and regulations nationally and unConstitutionally locally;
H) travel options and sanity. How many still think that the TSA is PRIMARILY about traveler safety?
I) food production and distribution;
J) as well as food engineering and forcing destructive, unhealthy GMO foods on the world . . . along with deadliness to a huge percentage of our bees.
K) shredding the Republic's military preparedness;
L) shredding the Republic's economic viabilities;
M) shredding the capacity of small businesses to exist and prosper;
N) destroying health care viablity and options from the inside out; top to bottom and outside in;
O) skyrocketing gasoline prices artificially;
P) sending millions of jobs overseas needlessly;
Q) putting a traitorous, Marxist Muslim foreigner in the Whitehouse as Destroyer In Chief;
R) Polluting water and airwaves with psychologically altering substances, wave forms and information;
...
8. Given even 1/10th of the above . . . does anyone with a patriotic half their brain left REALLY TRUST such genocidal jerks to take our children around the block in a bus???
9. Or put it this way--really trust such genocidal jerks to benignly take our children around the block the 100th time or the 200th time? When does the real purpose get revealed?
10. Hey, it's OK to call Quix a kook. It's FR !!!TRADITION!!! BTW, thanks for letting me know of another of my 'fans' in the FR elite hierarchy. Nice to know who my 'Friends' are.
11. Go ahead and call me a Kook and whatever obnoxious, assaultive label you can think of. Just PLEASE BE ALERT to what the Marxist globalist jerks in charge may be up to with our children.
Folks who think that the above linked Marxist Globalists are
working industriously to detach children from parents in hundreds of ways
are terminally uninformed, willfully clueless, lost in Alice's rabbit hole or fresh in from a long excursion to Pluto.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
Folks who think that the above linked Marxist Globalists are
working industriously to detach children from parents in hundreds of ways
are terminally uninformed, willfully clueless, lost in Alice's rabbit hole or fresh in from a long excursion Pluto.
From:
http://twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/009/cuddy/1-power-elite.htm
101. "Every child in American who enters school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government... all of this proves the children are sick, because the truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future".
139."The distribution of birth control devices and the imposition of mandatory abortion practices in the third world countries is now ecologically insufficient and unfairly out of world social balance. The white, upper and middle class females of modern society are too healthy and fertile to be exempted from some imposed regulation of international law or mandate. An American born child is environmentally too expensive to maintain to his or her adulthood in a world economy. American women must be subjected to some manner of regulation beyond licensing or immediate and mandatory abortion practices. Unconventional and extreme measures must be implemented and enforced by global U.N. mandate as it is deemed necessary.
The Marxist globalist oligarchy running things is NOT REMOTELY CHILD FRIENDLY NOR CHILD SAFE.
When her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--BWitch Shrillery Antoinette de Machiavelli de Fosterizer de Marx de Pol Pot de Mao de Stalin de Arafart de Che de Chavez . . . de Sade says
She means cordwood stacks of them.
With the “fundamentalist Christian” bit, it finally made sense—in Obamaworld, that is. It is indoctrination, and diabolically designed to traumatize to make it more forceful.
The Tribulation is here ahead of schedule.
I think it is still the ‘birth pangs’ of the Great Tribulation . . .
it is at the door, however.
And OThuga is eager to usher it in, it seems.
Speaking of
THE CHILDREN . . .
here’s a vivid and more than a little disturbing video about the situation in Iran . . .
scheduled far too soon for neighborhoods around the world . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNUjiKapOs
While there are plenty of things public schools do that we can get up in arms about, what do you want them to do about the very real possibility of something happening? Nothing? I have been involved in lockdowns and drills. The big drills where we went off site (necessary if you expect to be able to do it when it matters) WAS planned in advance and parents knew, which I think is as it should be, but there do need to be unannounced drills, just like fire drills, so the kids get used to being prepared.
Everything that happens is not the government preparing to haul you all away to internment camps. And if your child was in a school where there was a shooter or a terrorist or a bomb and they had done nothing to prepare you would be screaming at the top of your lungs, as well you should.
On the other hand, if you don’t like public schools, I encourage you to home school. I am a big proponent of it. There are lots of reasons public schools are not the best place for your kids. But this isn’t one of them.
I don’t know the location, but the last thing I would want after anything like a boiler explosion or fire is a bunch of kids at the site. It would be far easier to get them somewhere else so their parents could come get them. Have you ever tried to contain a bunch of excited/upset kids?
Your point of view is a point taken.
I posted the article for people to be aware of this issue and to discuss, but I am not the author of the article.
I do think we keep our eyes open. But too many on this board think the entire public ed system is the enemy. They are not (some are for sure).
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