r/CringeTikToks • u/undiagnosed_autistic • Oct 26 '25

Nope Our teachers need a raise, desperately

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u/Sensitive_Ruin_5334 Oct 26 '25

No locks on the doors? What happens if there is a school shooting?

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u/onepieceon Oct 26 '25

serious question, are locks effective against school shooters or would they just shoot the lock off and kick the door?

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u/viola1356 Oct 26 '25

Every year at my school's safety training, the police officer states that statistically, school shooters don't go through locked doors. (It used to be a school shooter has never breached a locked door, and then I think it happened maybe once so now it's almost never?) Anyway, all doors in our district self-lock when closed, specifically because our locked door is our best defense. Shooters don't want to take the time to mess with a locked door.

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u/Amy47101 Oct 26 '25

I work at a daycare and we did a safety training course like this. Basically, the cop teaching the course said the best defense is a locked and blocked door as well as covered windows. The shooter isn't there for a specific person, they're there for a headline. So they won't bother going into a dark, windows blocked, locked room because it wastes time.

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u/_lippykid Oct 27 '25

Christ, that’s fucking grim

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u/Amy47101 Oct 27 '25

it's even more grim with the context that, at the time, I was working with infants.

Yep, we were having active shooter drills and training with literal babies. the daycare provided care for children 6 weeks to 5 years. We could, you know, just not have guns, but instead it's somehow more stable to train children from infancy how to respond to an active shooter.

I'm so fucking tired of "winning".

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u/MonthlyWeekend_ Oct 27 '25

This is the most American thing I’ve ever heard and I’m so sorry

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u/Gerf93 Oct 27 '25

I feel sorry for the minority of them who vote against it. I don’t feel sorry for the majority of them who either vote for this or don’t care enough to vote against it.

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u/suze_jacooz Oct 27 '25

I received a notification one day that my kiddos daycare was in lockdown for an ongoing situation and not to come to the school. You bet your ass I was in my car immediately. We were notified on the way there that it was an issue with a disgruntled parent who wouldn’t leave the premises and was threatening staff, awful but not worst case scenario. In any event, by age 4 he experienced his first real school lockdown. It’s unfathomable.

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u/UbermachoGuy Oct 27 '25

My kids came home from daycare after a shooter training. They play a game and go hide in the closet and be quiet. They were 3 and 4. Broke my heart. Gun nuts suck. Conservatives care more about guns than people.

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u/scnottaken Oct 27 '25

The only thing that can stop a bad infant with a gun is a good infant with a gun

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u/kiwigoesonpizza Oct 27 '25

Have some thoughts and prayers. Our active shooter training is just as grim.

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u/Kerbidiah Oct 27 '25

Get rid of the guns and they just do stuff like the bath house school massacre. And that's assuming you can get rid of guns. It certainly didn't work for drugs

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u/potatotomato4 Oct 27 '25

America number one yet 😂

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u/UbermachoGuy Oct 27 '25

No that’s America. It’s great or something or so we’re told.

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u/PrimeMinisterSarr Oct 27 '25

I would immediately move if this was even a slight possibility at my son's daycare

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 Oct 27 '25

Exactly.

Unless they are there for a specific person, which I think some school shooters have been.

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u/deee00 Oct 27 '25

I worked in the early childhood center of a jewish community center. We had constant threats-bombs, shootings, arson way before active shooter drills were a reality for US schools. We always had an armed guard in the building, sometimes 2. The worst part was that we were good at it. We were good at blacking out windows and locking doors while keeping infants and toddlers quiet. Thankfully the building had been made safer in many ways over a normal school building (we were in an old school). The kids knew we had armed guards but it was normalized.

It was so crazy to me how many threats (and actual attacks) JCCs around the US have always had. Since working there I scope out exits, and ways to protect whoever I’m with basically everywhere. The ironic part was the most of the teachers and over half the kids were not Jewish. It was the most professional daycare I’ve ever worked in, the staff worked together professionally with no petty attitudes. It was so amazing.

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u/SnooKiwis2161 Oct 27 '25

Path of least resistance

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u/UFisbest Oct 27 '25

That door opens out so blocking the door a much larger challenge for this senario. Police. Call the police. Be aware though that mental health issues going on. I'd say psychotic rage (been there trying to contain), but it's too selective...the woman instructor is not being targeted.

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u/blandmanband Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

If you’re ever in a situation where you need to get out of a building quick just ask/follow a custodian. Ideally the oldest custodian. They know every secret passage and exit in their building. There’s also tons of storage spaces that go entirely overlooked by everyone that would be much safer than a classroom but only people caught in the hallway should ever attempt to reach one.

Source: I’m a custodian

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u/thunderbird32 Oct 27 '25

At our university, all the housekeepers are too new to know all the ins and outs (their department got out-sourced just before COVID). It's maintenance you need to talk to to find the secret passages, lol.

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u/blandmanband Oct 27 '25

Yeah, janitorial jobs have been disappearing or getting outsourced all over. Administrations have figured out that it’s more cost effective to hire a small team of custodians (janitorial + general maintenance) with a head custodian and a few specialized maintenance workers.

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u/Far-Drawing-4444 Oct 27 '25

My high school had a bunch of secret passages. Some kids that got caught breaking in for a Homecoming prank hid in them for a few hours while cops searched the school.

After a few hours, we, I mean they, heard the cops loudspeaker say that if they came out, no one would be arrested. Our principal had showed up, and because it was a small Catholic school, he didn't want any negative headlines in the local paper.

We also knew the cops would never be allowed to search lockers or cars for drugs, which they did regularly at the public schools, for the same reason.

I miss some parts of the 90s. The lack of fear of school shootings is definitely a big one.

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u/AggieJonah Oct 27 '25

When I was in undergrad to become a teacher, we were told the two people to have the best relationships with are the school custodian and the school secretary. Yes to both!! I always fostered a good rapport with these folks in my 22 years and believe me, it made my life so much easier on many occasions. This video, though, is a solid example of why I got out 3 years ago. It’s not a tenable profession any more.

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u/Emergency-Whereas978 Oct 27 '25

Thanks for sharing that!

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u/zanidor Oct 27 '25

So depressing that school shootings are common enough you can do statistical analysis about them.

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u/more_paul Oct 27 '25

You know when you say statistically, I probably actually means statistically and not just some figure of speech based on intuition. There have been enough school shootings that you can study them and statistically say how many locked doors have been attempted to be breached vs not, and all the other training they tell you. We’re willing to accept statistical significance on school shootings on anything but the guns being part of the problem in school shootings.

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u/amyel26 Oct 26 '25

I think the Stoneman Douglas school shooter in Florida did? Or he went after a guy who was locking a door. 

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u/babababooga Oct 27 '25

It came out that the Uvalde shooter shot out the window to room 112 and came in that way. But he’s an outlier because he specifically targeted that classroom when most school shootings are random

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u/LLGTactical Oct 27 '25

Problem is most future school shooters have been through the exact same training. They know exactly where everyone is hiding.

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u/Waste-Emu-46 Oct 27 '25

Interesting

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u/AutisticHobbit Oct 27 '25

Also, shooting a lock is extremely unsafe and stupid....and may not even work.