Penny--A lockdown is when there is a potential threat from someone with a gun perhaps, and everyone is told to stay in their rooms with the doors locked. The school I teach at is in a rural area, where guns are fairly common place. Last spring, some guy across the street was waving a rifle (or some other long barreled gun, I'm not up on these things) around. We went on a "code red" which means not to leave the classrooms for any reason. Luckily, the police arrived quickly, and things returned to normal w/in 60 mins. But since the large scale tragedies in the U.S. where kids have been shot in large numbers (Colombine Colorado, Springfield Oregon, Paducah Kentucky and others) people in the states are a bit touchy...

I haven't gotten the specific info that Dulci was looking for, I had a bit of an emergency at school to deal with on Monday, with carry over into today with a kid who is in trouble...I'll try on Thursday :-)