Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School scheduled a scenario-based drill last month after a report of a student with a gun sent the school into a lockdown for an hour in September.
Mooney said in his 26 years as a principal, the incident in September was the only time he’d been in an actual lockdown. Afterward, it was clear to him that changes needed to be made to the school’s planning process, which included running the scenario-based drill. The school repaired its intercoms that had been faulty during the lockdown and hosted a town hall with parents to understand more of the issues.
She was disappointed when the school system asked parents not to wait outside of the school. Many of those parents’ children were in classrooms where proper lockdown procedures weren’t being followed, she said.“What I really wish is that the first response coming off of the incident was not such a reflex to the community of, ‘Well you didn’t follow the procedures as we wanted you to do it, and you weren’t willing to wait an hour or more for us to give you the information,’ ” Winik said.
Many teachers assumed that the lockdown was a practice scenario. “What I should have said last time was that this is not a drill,” he explained. After Mooney lifted the shelter, administrators gathered in a conference room to debrief. Some of the teachers let students out of class before Mooney called off the shelter, but that was likely because they followed the time-stamped drill schedule they were given in advance, administrators said. Some teachers needed help getting their door locked.
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