Is it true that American schools actually have security guards and lockdown drills? Even in the stab-happy UK where knife crime is a big problem, there is nothing like this. The only security guard is a depressed assistant head teacher who is just waiting to reach the pension age.

Not just true in Germany, it's true for almost the whole world EXCEPT the US.

When Americans think it's weird the rest of the world DOESN’T have security in schools 🤦

My country (portugal) had 1 school shooting in the last 600 years 💀

Wait, america does have security checks at schools???

Ngl, america just feels like another planet...

The best way I can put it into perspective for Americans, did a school shooting ever happen it would be my nations biggest news story for the year, if not the decade by far, and if it somehow happened to a point where we would need police and security at school, I can’t imagine a world where the whole nation wouldn’t grind to a halt, until it is fixed, it is actually insane that you guys somehow think it needs to be a normal thing in life.

as an american living in a city, we have to put our bags through the x-ray machine thingy and walk through a metal detector every day. The fact that you can just walk in seems crazy to me

the security guard in my european school uses a cane to walk

In the UK we only have Sharon at reception that hates you because you were late to your maths mock once in yr10 and now you're finishing second year of sixth form

As an American, I’ve never walked into a school with a security check. I guess it depends where you live. We do have lock down drills though. It’s not just for “school shooters”, but also for threats outside or inside the school. I remember in elementary school we had a lock down because a (from what I remember) strange man was walking outside the school trying to get in.

As a german I find 12 school shootings in the 21th century alarming. During the whole 20th century we had 5. 5 in hundred years versus 12 in 24 years is alarming.

Huge governmental differences between the US and Germany.

The security in my school is there to stop students skipping school or making sure they got punishment for being late😅😅

In Denmark one can actually go through some pre-school playgrounds as a normal walking street, the gates only close after classes are over. Fun to see the little ones playing while you carry your groceries back home.

Kids in Germany also don't have unimpeded access to AR-15s though.

I was studying in Germany and I participated in a program where we visited local high schools and told them about our country. The teacher just told me where her classroom was and when to show up and I just walked straight up to the classroom with no challenges. When I explained the difference with schools in the US, she immediately said " like in a prison"

Not all schools have security checks in the US, not common in the suburbs or in the rural communities

We don’t have security checks but we have an active police officer there at all times and the school ordered metal detectors to check the student, this is a high school is North America

Wait it’s true that America actually has lockdowns and all that? I would definitely rather live in my country - Scotland. I mean, we can walk wherever even on farmland, basically anywhere. Everyone is so nice, my school doesn’t have any lockdowns the only restriction is that we can’t open the school door for anybody. It’s beautiful round here (except from when it’s raining) I wouldn’t rather live anywhere else honestly.

well, in Italy there's no security check at all. it's just the janitors

As an American I never had any security checks coming into school.

In Australia, you just walk in to school. We have lockdowns for randoms adults wandering in on school grounds, but its usually a parent who forgot to notify the school they're picking up their kid ealy for doctor appointments and such. Most schools are surrounded by residential areas with local shops nearby within walking distance. Plenty of public transport nearby so most kids are dropped off by parents or just take public transport, or even just walked to school. But we also have school uniforms, kind of hard to not be noticed. Plus, the schools are built differently than most of the world. Not just big block buildings. The buildings are at max 1-3 stories high. Easy access to outside or a green space nearby. Fairly big area because its spread out more because we have space and only build up in cities. Plus, most schools has less than 1500 people on the grounds at any point. Most of the teachers and staff are known so and so randos get noticed fairly quickly. Also, we have great support staff for kids who need help and so we don't really get school shootings or even just general fighting since they quickly get broken up and we have a cop who also doubles as the school social worker who also quickly deals with it and can arrest or detain students and do search warrants for drugs or weapons. It rarely ever happened whilst I was at school, except a girl who hid Vodka in her watervogels and a guy who brought pot brownies to school. Or my brother who was dumb enough to bring my dads spray prainter nozzle to show off to his friends.

Canada is the same way. The receptionist is pretty much our security here. You walk in your greeted and will be either escorted or your child will be called.

Where I’m from, in Spain, not a single kid has ever been worried about being shot ever. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that Americans are ok with a society where basic everyday activities can be fatal. It makes no sense

No way. That used to be my school. It looks so weird on video. (also, everything she's saying is true. We only ever had an anual fire drill)

In my British school we have a ‘security guard’ he’s just a little man who sits on a plastic school chair looking at the gate. It’s mainly to stop the students getting out, we’re not allowed to go out of school until the end of the day and a lot of students would sneak out.

Cool. Singapore has zero school shootings.

I guess I don’t know about the rest of the country but I’ve attended about 7 k-12 schools here in California and none of them ever had security checks at the entrance? We had security guards that roamed campus though for kids sneaking out of class or starting fights or any mysterious figure that probably shouldn’t have been there.

Meanwhile here in Asia, schools have security guards to keep students from skipping school😂

American here, my high school had lines about half a mile long for medal detector tests, and in depth bag searches. We had 2 test drills for a code 500 (active shooter). We had 2 bomb threats, one actually being where someone poured gasoline into the toilets. I hate it here

Same in Sweden. In my school from 7-9th grade It was hella confusing why we didn’t even have checks for who walked in, anyone could enter. Up until graduation I went to a more secure school where we had a tag to get in, but most of us held open the door for strangers if they were coming our way. No searches, no security cameras, only a yearly fire drill test.

Australia here! We do have some emergency drills but they’re usually for if the school was on fire

I think Billy is a little to excited to learn this information

I live in America I go to HS in SC. And at my school we have two police dogs and a bunch of RSO’s( resource officer) basically police officers all through the campus. And we have metal detectors. And all classroom doors must be locked and all windows and doors must be closed and locked as well. And sometimes classes get searched by police and admin. We also have lockdown drills twice a month

My school doesn’t have checks or security guards here in the US but we have an officer that comes mostly for show.

We have these HUGE, soooo heavy, metal doors that lead into the courtyard. If you want to enter through the office or building, you have to be buzzed in. Yes this is the same middle school that doesn't have fruit or vegtables because of budget cuts 💀

I’m Middle Eastern and there are no shootings and we have like four security guards so I feel very safe lol

For any school ive gone to in US there is no security gaurds or checkpoints just maybe a officer around in the area sometimes in case something happens qnd thats the most of it

As someone who grew up in Ontario, Canada and went through elementary school in the 90's, and high school from 2001-2005, I can confirm that we never had any lockdown drills, never had any school shootings, no security guards, etc. There were cops frequently at the high school my sister went to in 2007 but that was due to girls cutting cocaine with other stuff in the bathrooms and getting into fights all the time. Still, no school shootings.

As an American I’m glad you guys feel safe at school

This was school when I was young in America. No security and I felt safe.

We don't have security checks or guards in Italy either!

You can tell you're in a free country when schools need armed guards

America is a big place. This looks like my high school near Seattle.

A lot of Europe is like that, we don’t sell guns in the same place we buy our potatoes and milk 😂.

In Australia we also don’t have security guards, but he have giant outdoor areas so you have to take a hike if you want to get everyone

my school does not have security guards-we do have lockdown drills though. Keep in mind schools in lower income areas typically have disproportionately more “school safety offices” so my experience likely wasn’t the norm for many students

You know Indian schools don’t have a lot of things in place, like a lot of other countries, but I have never had to worry about school shooting in my school and college, neither have my cousins who have studied in different states and cities and in several colleges and schools. School shootings are not a thing here. And we are a 3rd world country

for all people outside the us wondering here’s how it works, I’m 14 and for as long as I can remember we’ve done drills, in the past five years, we’ve done more code red drills, meaning lockdown - in case any stranger or criminal was in the area the class would stay quiet and all huddle on the floor in a corner or underneath a counter, in a closet, bathroom, etc. the lights would be off, and the teacher would put a little curtain or drape down on the door so that you can’t we through the window and they would lock the door - depending on the state you live in the drills codes will be a bit different for Florida (I wont say the specific district bc I don’t wanna give too much info) white - bomb Blue - fire (we j go in lines outside to a specified area) red - lockdown yellow - minor lockdown( a criminal is being chased around the area, everyone needs to stay in class, and the teacher can keep teaching quietly) green- all clear, everything is fine ( used after red or yellow) it’s state mandated for every school to practice these drills a certain amount of times every year - the past couple years they’ve been getting better technology and alarms to go off for code reds bc of the shootings. practice drills the way we practice them is kinda messed around wt depending on the teacher but usually after a school shooting would be on the news, we do more drills and everyone’s serious abt it and not messing around. code red: - windows r shut - lights off - class is hidden somewhere away from the door inside the class to practice it they announce that we have it on the speakers, we’re sitting on the floor like five minutes and they’ll say something like “ code green, all clear, the date is x, my name is x principal” when it’s not a drill and actually happens it’s usually bc the school is in a neighborhood and a criminal is j running around a couple blocks away, or a stranger has entered campus (which is usually j a parent who doesn’t know how to properly check in for whatever they’re doing there) however, school shootings do occur, many have happened in Florida, a couple not too far from where I live or where my schools have been, and it is scary code blue - fire drill (alarm sound goes off ) - leave in a line to your corresponding exit - teacher counts everyone outside - then they call u back in they make us practice this one a lot, don’t know y tbh, no fired every rly happen, but you miss like 20min class time 🤷‍♀️ code white - no drill they’ve never done drills for these, it’s not state mandated bc we would j do what would happen during a fire drill which is to evacuate and green and yellow r just basically red but all clear or just not that bad that’s it - oh and also - we have (depending on how big the school is) like three or five police offers on campus j walking around and we have security checks for public schools that were near school shootings or had school shootings in the past, but public schools in suburban or richer areas don’t as far as ik, my school doesn’t but I’m in middle school ( grade 6-8) which isn’t in the rest of the world, but in the us, middle schools don’t typically have school shootings so idk any middle schools that have security checks, j police officers

I have a friend who lives in Texas and he told me they aren’t even aloud to leave the school during lunch or spare blocks. My school had a skatepark 5 minutes from it and the idea that it wouldn’t be filled with kids skating all day is kinda sad lol

As a Canadian I’ve never known there are security guards at schools😮. Just like the occasional lockdown drill

I grew up in a town of 600 in Kansas. We didn't have those either

In Ireland, my primary school was connected to the community centre, You could enter my school using the community centre yet no one broke into the school

Wait they have a security what now? All my school has is a funny assistant head who rugby tackles year 7 from other schools trying to get in to trade vapes.

Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!

america is so distant from other countries realities it's actually crazy

I graduated 16 years ago and even back then we had security, didn't have that many school shootings back in those days but there's a lot of gang activity where I live.

Oh trust me we have lockdowns. Just a few weeks ago there was a gun threat (while we were at school, it was done by a student) and they searched the entire school for 2 hours. It was honestly insane

At my school we have to walk through a metal detector every day and there’s like seven cops on campus 24 seven💀 we’ve had at least 12 bomb, threats or gun threats at my school just this year and some kid brung a knife to school

The US didn't have 51 school shootings in one year. The only way to get to that figure is to count shootings near the school that didn't kill any students or even kill anyone. Someone commits suicide in a school parking lot at midnight? School shootings +1.

Some schools have metal detectors and you can only have a clear backpack.

Germany's also the size of like two states. So for the size you guys have way more school shootings with way stricter gun laws

Same in Australia. Some of the much bigger schools will have security, but they’re mostly there for lesser crimes like stealing, drugs, physical assault. It’d be very rare they’d encounter shootings, stabbings, life threatening crimes. Most schools you could easily walk into, but anyone suspicious gets the admins attention pretty quickly. You’ll be asked what you’re doing/signed-in, may ask you to leave, and refusal means the police will be contacted. In Australia, emergency services respond extremely quickly to schools. The police would be walking in the door before you even knew they’d been called.

OMG government facilities too... there have been so many times I'm like "oh, let's just cut through this courtyard" only to find the other side of the courtyard is the door to like some minister's office. In the US, you can't even look at some secretary's office without gettin domed. Just touching the fence at the White House draws the attention of the snipers on the roof. How am I realizing "oh no dude, I think that gate was a, like, _gate_ " on the weekly??? 😅

Everyone in this comment section must live in extremely poor and high crime areas lol my school does lockdown drills but we don't have metal detectors or anything

"Olny about a dozen" That many? I'm shocked, I thought it would be somewhere between 0 and 2.

My school only does fire practices

how many percent of German high students can speak German fluently? (alternatively, how many American high school students can speak German fluently) :)

We don't have security checks in nz and we have earthquake drills

Billy looked like he was about to go lockdown their school💀💀💀💀💀

Even in Canada where I live we don’t have security guards we only have like 2 lockdown drills a year.

She walked into the school like it was Poland in the 30's

U forget schools in Neu Köln. They have now security guards and metal detectors. And not because of the germans😂

In my big city high school there were never any security checks (lockdown drills only started happening when school shootings began to be on the rise when I was about to graduate), but another high school that I was supposed to go to literally had an airport-style security screening lol

Bro in Canada we don't have security checks

The dozen school shooting still sounds weird to me as i have never heard of school shooting in south asia or more precisely in my country 👁👄👁

BRO I KNOW THAT SCHOOL ITS WHERE MY COUSIN GOES

50 years ago in my Amerixan school district, about the only potential dangers we had to worry about were tornadoes. And once we got past the March to May tornado season, we were free and clear until the next year.

That boy stare 💀

Same in Australia.

i knew they had lockdown drills but security? everyone that goes to my school carries pocket sized “weapons” (scissors, hand held knives, anything sharp or mildly dangerous) and the only guards we have is the fat teacher at the door shouting at u for being 0.2911 seconds late

My school only had security guards when there was a bomb threat reported nearby. Most of the time there’s no security guards but sometimes they pop up. They’re usually from the local police station and such.

i thought the whole “america has practice school shooter drills” was a joke man i didnt even know they did that stuff lol

In ANY OTHER COUNTRY, there are no school security checks. I am in London, and I could walk into any school in this country or Europe and just act like I am meant to be there. I am amazed that this kid seems to be surprised that we do not have security checks.

12 since 2000 is one every other year, not nearly as frequent as US but still frequent enough to think about

Why would you need security guards in schools, I'm not even from Europe btw

Imagine flexing your shitty security

Germany has a proper gun control

As someone who went to school from 2000-2013 i have to admit i was scared of school shootings in Germany. ~9 school shootings happened during that time. Luckily not a lot but enough for all the schools i visited to change the door system (doors are not able to be opened from outside anymore). What is scary is that these shootings started to happen in universities now in the past two years there were two shootings. (I dont want to scare anyone with this post - just showing that some people can be scared too and i am worried for my friends who are teachers now)

in canada we don't have security but we have had a few lockdown drills + hold+secures for various reasons

as an american my school district doesn’t have any security checks, but we do have lockdown and bomb drills

Same in Canada

in australia we have open plan schools mostly meaning we walk from building to building and it is not enclosed and there are no gates to get in or out and if the are they do not lock. we have no school shootings.

In germany we now have an automatic locking system

Who tf has security in school

I feel a bit sad for American kids. They are generally raised to think that America is the standard for the rest of the world. It must be such a shock to learn it isn't and the rest of the world does follow what America does

Not just germany, all of the world basically

Here in Australia, it is mind blowing to hear that the US has security guards. Here you just walk in the gate, at 9am the gate locks and there is an intercom that lets you in.

Brazil could never