Did you hate fire drills when you went to school?

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I did. That loud annoying fire alarm.

Our fire alarm wasn't too bad.

We went through a week or so where the alarm would seemingly go off every day. For some reason I still remember how cold the football pitch we had to queue up on was.

People on WP are always asking this!! No, they really did not bother. Any excuse to get out of school even for a few minutes was a good one. Sometimes in grade school they let us have a second recess.

I heard some schools in the US have had school shooting drills or even bomb drills and they didn't even let the kids know about it first, causing lots of fun-filled trauma and paranoia.

Fire is just fire, it doesn't know right from wrong. But human beings supposedly do. Of course, some people start a fire on purpose which is know as arson. Unless it's in a fireplace or a campfire.

i didn't hate the sound, but the overwhelming orderliness and being told what to do, how to stand when lining up outside got on my nerves.

i liked earthquake drills better because we got to huddle under the desks.

our teacher once demonstrated how low the tables would collapse if their supports failed, and if we were any higher than the minimum point we could become paralyzed.

they were big, heavy, metal and particle board conglomerations.

I probably didn't have an opinion one way or the other. It was probably a welcome break in the school-day.

We had a few "air-raid drills" too, in which we'd get under the tables, probably to protect us from falling ceiling-plaster. That was around 1953 or so. There wasn't much of a rationale for the air-raid drills, and we only had them a few times, it seems to me.

Yes, those under-the-table drills might have made more sense as earthquake drills. We were near the San Andreas fault.

Michael829

I did like the noise.
We had constant bomb scares in high school in the early and middle 1970’s.

We had the under the table air raid drills in 60’s

When I was age 4-6 I used to cry every time the fire alarm went off, not because of the noise, but because it felt like danger and a threat, and it scared me. Then by age 7 I realised that it's nothing to worry about, and that it's just a fire practice.

But at the high school kids used to set the fire alarm off nearly every week, sometimes more than once in one week, and that was awkward because every time I was near a bell I would anticipate whether or not it might go off, and my nerves would stand on end. Science classes were hell for me because most of the science labs had a loud bell inside the room so I had to sit and hope the fire alarm wouldn't be set off during those classes. I also spent my high school years wishing the science labs didn't have a freaking bell in them.

I didn't care for the sound but I liked getting out of class

Yes I did, they were loud as hell and I never knew when they would go off.

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on October 2, 2017)

I hated the shrill volume of the alarm, but I enjoyed getting out of class.

When my kindergarten teacher first mentioned that we would have a fire drill, I had envisioned that she would show us a flame-throwing power drill.

On that day, I was disappointed.