Today was quite an interesting one at the Horn. We had a "code blue." It means that there is someone in or around the building who is dangerous. There is a whole list of procedures we are to following during one of these drills but no one really takes them completely seriously because, i mean, it's the horn...out in the middle of cotton and cows! So I went through the normal procedures: locked my door, turned of all the nights, crammed the kids into one of my closets, made them hush, and sat there and waited....and waited...and waited. Now, usually at some point during the drill the school secretary will come over the intercom and say "all is clear you can come out now" or something to that effect, but that's a trick because the actual "all clear" code is something else (something that i'm not going to post online for you random scary larrys our there who may read this). But after about 20 min...nothing...at this point I'm still trying to convince my kids that it's just a drill, but they are beginning to catch on that something was up. About the time panic set in on some of my kids faces (about 25 min into what i thought was drill) the real all clear signal was sounded.
A few moments later a fellow colleague came in my room to whom i said, "I'm glad they gave us warning about that code blue drill." (sarcastically of course!) To which he replied, "That wasn't a drill. The North Alabama Bank down the road just got robbed and the guy was walking up Winchester Rd." So, long story short, we had a REAL code blue today...my first in three years at BHS.
Another "crazy day" note -- the weather was supposed to be bad today, so the kids got out 1245pm today!
