Fire drills

Last Monday we had a fire drill in school. To you, you’re probably thinking “so what?” But to me, it’s bigger than you may think.

 

I think fire drills are annoying. I have always thought that and I always will. We’ve been doing it since elementary school, I believe. Forgive me if I’m wrong, though. In middle school it was 2 fire drills every month. 2 fire drills per month for 10 months makes 20 fire drills in a year. By the time I got out of middle school, I had gone through approximately 80 fire drills, each one the same as the last.

 

I heard that in high school we have to have a minimum of 4 drills every month, but I don’t think we’ve been doing that. I think we’ve been doing about 1 or 2 per month. If it’s 2 per month, that’s another 80 by the time I’m out. I would have done 160 fire drills in 8 years of school.

 

Also, they’re way too loud. It’s a high-pitched sound that is so loud that your ears can ring if you stay in the school long enough because the hallways amplify the sound that much. It’s almost as if they’re expecting you to run a jet engine during class to compete with any other sound. Furthermore, I find it annoying how we’re constantly told to stop talking. Now I don’t actually talk, but it’s like whomever tells us to stop talking thinks that it’s competing with the sound of the fire drill. Trust me guys, 60 decibels of sound doesn’t compete with 125 decibels.

 

Do they honestly think that we don’t know the school by the first month? With every fire drill that goes on instead of every fire, people take it less and less seriously. They know nothing’s actually happening so they don’t care. Call me cruel, but sometimes I wish there was a real fire to see how they actually react to it. I’d like to see if anything bad happens because of people not taking it serious enough.