My kid told me this happened in school yesterday

duck and cover..

It's probably best to smother the child now with a pillow then have him go through a life of Liberal nonsense.

I had an evacuation drill on a school bus once. Personally, I wouldn't sweat it as it can be a valuable lesson if it ever comes up in life. Better that than teaching him how to drive it.

I did bus evacs when I was kid, I'm 40 now.

Wow, this is post worthy? Get a life!

We did that in high school, bus evacuation drills. You just go outside, sit on the bus and then scoot yourself off the floor through the emergency exit. Went back to class like normal, not a big deal.

So how do you escape a bus full of kids? What's the procedure?

I'd be a lot more concerned about a kindergardener walking to school.

We did too, and that was in the 60's in very rural VT...

Same here i had evacuation drill on a school bus when i was a kid

What a stupid fucking thread. If anything happened you would be arguing that the school should have done these evac courses

We did bus drills when I was in school and I am 41! What if your kid is on a bus for a field trip?

sometimes I fart and enjoy the smell.

i guess cuz i never did it it seemed strange to me. Im actually glad you guys are saying you did so i know im overreacting lol. But i would have liked a notice telling me they were going to do them. not like i would have stopped it.

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I did them too, nothing out of the ordinary.

Your kid probably takes a bus on field trips so it's probably best he get to practice too.

We had bus drills, even for kids who didn't ride the bus. It is important, and I would be grateful that my son now knows how to get of a bus in a disaster, as most people honestly don't. Especially elementary aged kids, they are not going to know how to open those emergency exits.

The school is probably just preparing for future years where they take buses on field trips. (It is not out of the ordinary to take field trips several times a year in grade school...)

Point being, I'd say that school is in the right, and doing a great service by not overlooking the seemingly "unnecessary" drills. Those are the things that usually end in disaster when overlooked, after all...

This is nothing to worry over.

Do you get notices for fire drills and tornado drills? Active shooter drills?

Fasten your seatbelt Momma ! My kid is in 6th grade and you have to moniter everything . Non stop stupidity ! we tried private school for 2 years but we picked a bad one and my son fell further behind (Montessori ) Stay strong

"I never did that in any grade in school and I grew up in the same city ( Chicago) "

Don't even try to compare what YOU experienced, with what the Victims in the School system in Chicongo are facing today?

This is a completely infested, Psychopath controlled system, a freeloaders paradise, with zero border control, and a taxpayers nightmare.

Seriously? What planet are you from? I did this same thing in the 70s. Its the law inmost states to perform these drills.

Bus drills in schools have been going on for kids in some states for like forever.

Even if he doesn't ride the bus they figure he'll go on a field trip on a bus and they cover everything.

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I don't understand what the problem is???? Hypersensitivity on your part?

We were taught to hide under desks, we were taught to drop and cover, we were also taught to drop and roll so what's the big deal??????????????????????????????

In today's society it would seem prudent to teach children to take care of themselves when MOMMY isn't around.

Do you think they should ask you about everything your child does and is taught? I suspect by the time you got around to giving him/her permission every time to go to the bathroom they would have already pissed themselves!!!!!

Me too, especially in Chicongo

mine where taught that in the event of a disaster most parent's dead so kids would need a carer an older teenage person to be exact and they may have to go off to an evacuee camp somewhere what fuckery is that then they tried to pass it off as if they where teaching the kids about ww2 scared the kids wasn't happy then a friends daughter who is at college who is doing child welfare asked if she could be there buddy some crap to do with the college course yeah right told her no straight out or am I being paranoid you decide

Maybe this warrants a thread of its own, but you made me remember something a family member went through last year in Illinois.
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He and his wife have two sons, maybe 9 and 5/6. They go to public school in rural Illinois about 3 - 4 hours from Chicago. The parents received no notification of this happening AT ALL, but one day in school the classes were talked to by someone from Child Protective Services, something like that, along with the classroom teacher.

The students were asked various questions about whether or not their parents touch them inappropriately or do things that could signal abuse. All of these questions were asked to groups of students in their class together - not individually.

Their youngest son, a 5 year old, when asked some question about being touched inappropriately, answered that yes, his dad touched his butt and that he didn't like it. Now... what he was thinking of was completely harmless spankings or pinches to get him to go to bed. Nothing sexual, nothing inappropriate. And the kid didn't like it because they were trying to get him to go to bed.

So he described this to whoever this person was, and the dad pretty much automatically had some record of inappropriate activity, child abuse, something like that. They didn't even talk to the parents about it. I can't say that he was criminally charged with something, but it was on a record that became available to people in a background search. At the time the dad was trying to become a coach for the older son's baseball team - he couldn't do it because of this charge. He was also looking for a new job and had to withdrawl from that because of it possibly coming out in a background search. They live in a small town so word would have spread quickly.

Does this freak anyone out here? I was absolutely shocked that students could be put through this type of questioning at such a young age, and without the parent's consent. Aren't parents supposed to know EVERYTHING that goes on with their kids at a public school? On the other hand though, I get that a parent that was actually abusing their kids could keep the kids home that day, or coach them in a response.

So he's had to get a lawyer and deal with this, and i think looked into suing the school district. Not sure where it stands now. When I found out about it I was just shocked at the whole thing.

What are your thoughts on this?

The breakdown of the nuclear family creates a vacuum which the State occupies. It's a gradual process happening over decades of time.

My third grade grandson's teacher gave each child in class a journal to write in everyday about their feelings on things that bother them. The children were not allowed to bring the journals home until the end of the year.

I asked if he writes in it everyday. He said he does but sometimes he doesn't know what to write about so the teacher asks him questions about his home life. She suggests he write about that.