On Wednesday, January 3rd, Liberty High School students and staff experienced an accidental hard lockdown, but how did this happen? A staff member sat on a card during the first lunch that sounded the alarm. Each staff member has a card with a button that can be pressed to call for help during a distressing situation. The alarm was very confusing, and, for some people, a frightening experience. For students who were in classrooms, teachers’ computer screens froze and immediately changed to a hard lock warning. Additionally, there was a blinking red light on the ceiling. For students who were at lunch, many were confused and didn’t know what was happening.

Izabella Gomez can help confirm since she “was actually outside, so [she] didn’t know that it was happening until [she] went inside because [they] went inside during lunch, and so [they] were really confused because we didn’t know what happened.”

Additionally, parents were sent an email to clear up the accident. Many students contacted their parents during the lockdown, which worried them.

Ferdinand Bungay thought it was “a very traumatic experience during the lockdown. [He] was hyperventilating, [He] was going to cry, and afraid [he] had to text [his] parents.”

Overall, everybody was safe. Most teachers were calm and students were able to practice what would happen if there was a real hard lockdown.