As an (insert counrty you like to shit on here) person, I only remember violent gunman drills specifically. We would all be instructed to hide in a corner(s) not visible from the hallway, and to stay dead silent, while the administration staff knocked on the doors and didn’t do the “all OK” actions.

Funnily enough, my suggestion we “grab a knife or knifey object and we’ll bum rush the fucker” NEVER went over well, for some reason.

Sounds like it may have been Gene Parmesan

We got to wear some glasses that supposedly gave you drunken/on drugs vision. Everybody liked that.

As an American who grew up in the 90s and 00s… what the fuck, this was a THING?!

Born and raised in Alberta, I’ve never heard of or seen this

This basically happened inThe Simpsons.

At mine, on that day, they started it by announcing over the intercom one morning that a popular classmate had been killed by a drunk driver on the way into school. Even though it should have been obvious that’s not how it would really have been handled, it got the shock it was intended to get. A few people even ran out of classrooms crying. That was before everyone had cell phones.

I guess they wanted to make a point about the fatality rate statistic, too, though, so they kept going, announcing another person every however many minutes. It immediately became really obvious to everyone what was going on when they announced the second person. I think it lost more of its desired effect the more they continued.

In my school, one student was pronounced dead at the scene, one was taken by ambulance, and another was airlifted.

Every day, we would hear a car crash and heartbeat come up on the announcement system and then a grim reaper would walk into a classroom and tap a student on the should who “died” from drunk driving. They were taken to another room, where they put on makeup and a tombstone was placed for them in front of the school. At the end of the day, all the “dead” students would stand behind their tombstone. The “dead” would still attend class, but say nothing.

At the end of the week, there was a big presentation, where some people who survived a drunk driving accident spoke about their experience and statistics. He had suffered third-degree burns across his body and took off his shirt and walked around the auditorium, so that we could see the aftermath.

Fatal Choices was intense

We had to wear goggles that simulated being drunk like that one episode of the Simpsons and then try to do basic tasks like walk from one point to another or whatever so they could show how it impaired your motor skills. But it backfired because they just really exaggerate the visual impairment you get from drinking, they’re basically putting on a really too strong pair of glasses. But we did several rounds and eventually got somewhat used to it, it was a big game of who could seem the least impaired, the message was completely lost on us, etc

What

It is worth noting that this sort of thing was only done for a very brief period of time. It’s not like this is how all American schools have warned students since 1978.

Still hilarious when you look back on it.

American, in the early 00s is when I got my license.

We never had that shit.

What we had was a school promoted driver’s ed course. I think there was a video in the first week about drunk driving, but it was never this dramatic.

Then, we had road time. Lessons on the actual rules/laws of the road? Nah. Chuck a 15 year old into a car with a few other students, give the instructor a chicken brake, and figure it out. If you passed the school program, you didn’t have to take a written or road test, you just got your license. Unless you had an accident, you passed.

I’ll just say, that seems to explain a lot of the shitty drivers in my home town. Hell, my first time getting on the highway was coached by a friend of the same age as I did it for the first time. Didn’t learn that in the drivers ed program, we just took side/back roads.

Also round-a-bouts didn’t exist back then, in our area. They got real popular in the last couple years. No one seems to know how to use them. Yield? What the fuck does that mean?

My wife and I moved to another state a few months ago. I just gotta say driving was something I fucking loathed. In this new state? Well, I still don’t like it, but honestly, its fine. So much better. People observe traffic signs/laws. It makes a big difference.

They not only did this whole skit at my high school, they literally had a helicopter from the local hospital airlift the “injured” students off the football field where the assembly was held.

I was kinda jealous of my friend, who was one of the two kids who got to ride the chopper. I’ve never ridden in a chopper. 🥺

We had a day when they simulated a group of students being killed in a drunk driving accident. They still had to come to school, though, so they wore white face paint and weren’t supposed to interact with anyone.

In America they do that in between active shooter drills.