At approximately 8:53 on the 8th of November, all the students and staff went down to the first floor and took cover for the tornado drill. Everyone stayed where they were covering their necks until we got the “Okay” sign from HHS Assistant Principal Mr. Eli Phillips. This is the first of two tornado drills we are required to do this year.
The students that are here have learned the procedures and have practiced the drills.
“I don’t know the specific number – four fires, four intruders, two tornadoes, two earthquakes – we have as many drills as they tell me to have,” Phillips said.
The students do a great job cooperating with these drills by learning and doing them.
“Our fire evacuation time is phenomenal. Our teachers and students do a great job during our Intruder drills and then I’m phenomenally impressed with the high school,” Phillips said.
The students do an amazing job with participating
“Here in my limited experience I think our kids do an awesome job and It seems like people at least from my perspective take it seriously and do what they are supposed to do,” Phillips said
Students think that in some drills they act better than other drills.
“I feel we act best during the fire drill because we are actually trying to get out,” Michael Cammann (10) said
When it comes to intruder drills, some students feel as if some classes are safer than others.
“I probably feel safest in Murphy’s class,” Emmitt Teague (12) said.
Some other kids would disagree.
“Class I feel safest in probably Mr. Grage’s room because there is two rooms,” Jordan Harvey said but Michael said otherwise “Safety wise I would say the acting room” Michael Cammann said. Mason agrees with Jordan Harvey “I would say the workshop,” Mason Flores (10) said.
There are people that think some drills are scarier than others.
“Probably the intruder drill probably because it can be like it’s hard to predict you don’t know how much people are, how much ground they are going to cover,” Flores (10) said.
Teachers would say students act well.
“They are respectful and they follow the procedures they are supposed to follow,” HHS Library and Media Specialist Mrs. Krista Dunn said.
But some students would disagree.
“Most of the time, I would say they are not really taking it seriously. They are laughing and being loud in the hallways, but during the intruder drills, they are quiet because it’s a real thing that can actually happen. But I would say the fire drills are like that. They are being loud, they see their friends, they talk to their friends, and they are mostly not serious,” Teague (12) said.
