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Nope. This is a Boomer bomb shelter. Gen-X never did any of that. We just watched nuclear apocalypse movies on TV and hoped we would not survive the initial blast.
As a Gen Xer in the midwest, I remember the “sit in the hallway and cover your head” Tornado drills, but never bomb drills.
Columbine happened when I was in school, but the running joke at my inner city school was that anyone who pulled a gun would immediately commit suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head in 3 different calibers, and their gun would disappear.
sit in the hallway and cover your head" Tornado drills
…so the tornado won’t recognize you?
I think you’ve just got to run faster than the slowest kid. Or maybe that’s bears.
Can confirm: in the event of a tornado, you have to run faster than the slowest bear.
I’m Genx and we definitely did this at my Catholic grade school, at least the first few years as far as I can remember. A bit terrifying really.
Uh, Gen-Xer here. We weren’t given the duck and cover shpeal. They had pretty much given up on that by the mid 70’s. You’re actually thinking of Boomers.
FWIW, duck and cover was more meant to protect kids from falling debris in the event a nuke goes off a distance away that is survivable. I don’t think anyone expected this to help in a direct blast type of scenario
realizing as a millenial how dated everything about your school was
My elementary-school-aged kids still have desks like this.
We were still doing bomb drills too
Mine do active shooter drills.
We got both! But the shooter drills were post Columbine.
Are the desks bulletproof?
Nah, that’s what the vests were for
All school drills but like two, ever, were post Columbine.
???
Wat. Shooting drills and nuclear holocaust drills are unrelated.
Also, Fire drills happen fucking everywhere forever.
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I do believe they’re also renaming their class rooms, into “panic rooms”
And moving them to discos?
The soviets never could make a desk busting nuke.
They really should make the black box of airplanes out of the nearly indestructible military grade plywood that school desks are made out of.
Just duck and cover! 🐢🪖
You’re right, I COULD do with being a bit better at handling explosives!
“Duck and cover!”
Made it sound like a game.
I have one of these in my room. Coincidentally, I have a lot of students who break regular furniture.
