Lockdown

[kittysbecute]

I just heard that my campus is in lockdown right now because of a local robbery or something...
I was at school this morning, but came home about an hour ago. They just announced the lock down 8 minutes ago so it must have just happened.

 

[kittysbecute]

The lockdown is over now.. so it lasted around 30 minutes or so.

Has anyone here ever had a lockdown at their school?

 

[Justinph5]

we've had lockdowns every once in a while in my grade schools, but i've never heard of one at a college... Probably cuz I couldn't imagine a lockdown when we have 55,000 students... Is your school a smaller one?

 

[MrsSeptemberPenguin]

Yeah, I did at my other college before I transfered. I guess the whole school wasn't necessarily locked down, but the part of the campus with the bomb threat was.

 

[kittysbecute]

we've had lockdowns every once in a while in my grade schools, but i've never heard of one at a college... Probably cuz I couldn't imagine a lockdown when we have 55,000 students... Is your school a smaller one?

I just looked up it's estimated enrollment for this semester and it's 10,734 students.
Not too big.. but it's bigger than it has been in the past. It has grown a lot in the last few years.
I think they had whoever was outside go to the library for the lockdown, it's a really big building they built last year. (It's the learning center, some classrooms, and the library on the second floor.)

My other school has around 30,000 students... and there were a few bomb threats on campus so I heard that they had shut down the campus for that. Then opened it up by the time I got to school for my night classes.

 

[Alizera]

That's kinda scary. I hope it's just somebody being stupid.

 

[Paulie079]

I think they've only locked down a certain building once since I've been here and that's been about the extent of it. Things here are usually pretty peaceful for a college of 10,000+

 

[AndrewK788]

I go to a small community college. We weren't locked down but one time they had an added police presence because about 10 miles north at a different technical college there was someone that came on campus with a shotgun. Thankfully no one was hurt except the guy with the gun...he shot himself.

Even though it wasn't at my school it was still unnerving.

 

[RuthC]

What do you mean by lockdown?

 

[kittysbecute]

What do you mean by lockdown?

If there is a threat, like someone with a gun, they have all the students go into classrooms or a building, and you can't leave until its all clear.
I've never experienced a real lockdown, but we had at least one lockdown drill in highschool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockdown