before you read what's below, you should look at this picture of my favorite student. Her name is Flora and she finds me every morning to say hi, or her version of hi, which is basically squeeking. She wants to be picked up so she can touch my face (usually my big nose). If you remember I mentioned a little girl who laughs at anything I say and thinks I'm the funniest person in the world...well this is her.
But back to the pre-fire drill reading.
I can't tell you how happy I am that this school did a fire drill. My first year in Korea, at public school, there was not one fire drill. There never is because the government doesn't make it mandatory. I would guess there has never been a death from a fire at a school before, so this is the base line for not doing one....which is stupid. Of course it might happen one day. Knock on wood it doesn't, but if there was a death, that is what it would take for the government to force it upon schools. The excuse would be just as bad as the event. It would go something like this, "This never happened before, we didn't know it would, so it's not our fault." If you read my previous post about the parents who let their kid starved to death because they were raising a fake baby on the internet...their excuse was something along these lines.
It means a lot to me that this school has at least enough sense to practice an evacuation without being told to do so. As we all know, shit happens. And this little girl is one of the protected here at my school because of this preemptive strike. Stay healthy readers. Peace.
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