Monthly Terror Drills Now Required By Law For Students Including Kindergarten And 1st Graders

The Intel Hub
By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer
September 15, 2011

Kindergarten and 1st grade students are now required by law to participate in monthly terrorism drills, including active shooter, bomb threat and evacuation drills.

I recently received my 1st grade students back to school paperwork. Going through the packet I found a letter serving notification that my son is now required by law to participate in monthly anti-terrorism drills.


In fact, after doing more research, I learned that all New Jersey schools which provide services to children from Kindergarten and up are now required by law to participate in monthly drills.
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Schools must hold the drills at least twice a year, in addition to the twice a month fire drills the following:

• Active shooter
• Evacuation (non- fire)
• Bomb threat
• and Lockdown

On top of those drills, schools will be required to also hold other security drills, which include the following:

• Shelter-in-place
• Reverse evacuation
• Evacuation to relocation site
• Testing of school’s notification system and procedures
• Testing of school’s communication system and procedures
• Tabletop exercise
• and Full scale exercise

With a Full Scale Exercise defined by Law as:

Full Scale Exercise: This is a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional activity involving actual deployment of resources in a coordinated response as if a real incident had occurred. This exercise tests many components of one or more capabilities within emergency response and recovery, and is typically used to assess plans, procedures and coordinated response under crisis conditions.

The letter, which can be viewed here, reads as follows...
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