Hypothetical Scenario: What would you do if you were a student trapped inside a school with a shooter?

I was pondering this one boring, boring day in literacy enrichment after she very not-insanely exclaimed after a lockdown:

“Listen, guys. If there actually was someone like a school shooter or whatever in the school, I could probably hide, like, ten kids maybe. No, seriously, look at the table and posterboards—”

-she had a rather imposing, bright-yellow tablecloth and a cardboard cutout to fit her 70s theme-

“— I mean, even in my desk, you know?”

-cue her counting out spaces under her desk-

“That’s a good 12 or 13 of you,” she added earnestly. I mean, we had close to thirty kids in the actual class, but whatever.

But still, that kind of raised some points. If someone as unstable as a school shooter walked into school, I’m probably much, much better off hiding.

… but where to hide? Well, dearest reader, the answer is in the wide open. Right in front of your eyes.

Almost. You see, the seventh grade hall has this weird problem with lockers. If you don’t rotate the combination from the last number you entered, it’s going to swing open sans knowledge of combo. And my school is tiny, I could definitely race around the school to a seventh grader’s locker and hide in it. Not to mention that 1) our school lockers are friggin’ HUGE, and 2) I’ve been shoved into a locker before (for science, of course). I know I could jam myself inside for at least a few hours, if not uncomfortably.

So my #1 choice: hiding in my locker.

Say you have lockers half the size of mine’s though, or smaller. You know what that means?

THE JANITOR’S CLOSET. Think about it— bleach, probably chloroform or something gross, locker keys, huge trash cans, walkie-talkies, rags, brooms, etc. And there’s a lock, because of pesky students.

So, choice #2: the janitor’s closet.

Choice #3: hide in a closet and wait for us all to die.

Self-explanatory. At least I’d be able to write a note to my parents and a will leaving everything to my dog.

Choice #4: leap out a window.

:)

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