Lockdown

I found this entry that I never published and figured I might as well throw it up here. This is more of just a journal entry.

2/12/2013

So, today was interesting and not in a super-exciting-let's-do-it-again way.

I started my day at the butt-crack of dawn assistant-teaching at an elementary school in Midvale.

 Everything was going fine and we were just doing a simple tile-design project but then my boss quietly informed me that we were on lockdown.

The teacher at the school showed us an e-mail on his computer that said the school was on lockdown, there was a shooter on the loose, and not to stir up panic by telling the kids. That was all the info we got and you can imagine how our minds started to race given recent events.

We did our best to stall during the lesson so the kids wouldn't wonder why we were still there but we ran out of things to do pretty quick. I think I was too sleepy for it to really sink in that this could be serious.

After a while, the school just went on partial-lockdown and we were allowed to move to the other classrooms (although we were in trailers so that was interesting). The teacher pulled up this news article to show the kids what was happening: http://fox13now.com/2013/02/12/multiple-injuries-reported-in-midvale-shooting/  They weren't too concerned, I guess this is the second incident in the past couple months so they just joked about it and moved on. I had missed my class anyway so I stayed the entire day.

By the time I left to head straight to my other job, a police barrier had been setup so I had to take a massive detour to get to the freeway. I kind of hoped that meant they'd caught the shooter but I guess they just found his car at the Motel 6.