Inside Fatherhood

School lockdown alerts via email and text message

by Bill on September 27th, 2007

Also spotted on BadDadRadio.com, the Lockdown Alert service notifies you of emergencies and disruptive events in your school district that might effect your child. These disruptive events include things that happen at the school (e.g. phoned in bomb threat) to situations in the vicinity (e.g. a shooting nearby).

Lockdown Alert works with almost any pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, special education or vocational public school in the United States. Simply choose the school for which you want to be alerted and enter your cell phone number or email address.
You do not need to supply any personal information. Your email address is only used to send out alerts. It will never be used for any purpose that is not related to an actual school event.

After I posted about the Amber Alert text message service, I couldn’t help but think that it might heighten paranoia in some parents even though it provides a tremendous function. However, Lockdown alert is granular down to the level of the school your child attends so you won’t be worried that a bomb threat 100 miles away has anything effect on your child’s well being.

I personally like their bizarre lockdowns section which shows you a little bit of how weird this world is, as if you need reminding. My personal favorites are:

1. Student reports seeing Batman on campus.
2. Mountain lion prompts lockdown.
3. Precautionary lockdown due to a squirrel attack on three students.
4. Precautionary lockdown due to topless woman with gun near campus.

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