[Kintsukuroi.]

When I was in school we had lockdowns where we would lock the door, turn off the lights, crouch down in the corner farthest from doors/windows, and the principal would go around jiggling and banging on doors to make sure they were locked. We did have two actual lock down scenarios when I was in school, one where there was an attempted murder in one of the streets near my school and they were conducting searches to find the guy so all of the schools near by were put into lock down. We did have police officers search our school hallways and bathrooms with guns but the teachers got a text explaining what was going on and let us in on it and we also checked the news site on our phones. The other time there was supposedly a guy with a weapon on the school grounds and we got put into lock down. We had police searching our school and outside. They found him in a backyard with no weapon but he had an object protruding out of his pocket that did in fact resemble a weapon.

That said, I do think drills are necessary and sometimes more effective if the students do not previous knowledge about what is going on but the guns were slightly over the top. I do know though when drills are planned they have to get authorization and I do not believe the fault should be solely on the principal.