While I was just getting into my classroom for 2nd block the announcement came for us to get into lockdown, and at first it didn’t scare me at much because I thought it was just a drill. But after a couple hours, Mr. Jones sent out an email saying that this is real then I started to get a little scared. So we just all sat there in the dark, our teacher let us use our phones to call our parents to let them know that we were ok, he didn’t care if we texted our friends or family members because that makes less noise then talking on the phone – all it makes is clicking. My sister texted me and asked if she could call me to talk to me so I called her after she sent that text message and she was crying, asking me what was going on, she was more scared then I was.

When I was siting there I kept on getting text messages from my friends and family asking what was going on, and if I was ok. The part that scared me the most and when it hit me that this was real was when we were getting evacuated. When the SWAT team guy and a principal came in they just walked in and told us to get in a single file line and hold onto the person ahead of you. So as we were walking out that was the scariest part cuz there was a guy with a gun standing right there, doing the best he can to protect all of us. I belive that the Rapid City police department did a very good job of protecting us. I hope that the kid that did this learned that making prank calls like he did is very serious and not to do it again. Well thank god that we have been practicing the lock downs and stuff or we would have been so out of control, most of the people wouldn’t know what to do.

~Randi~