[grkvlt]

> I think it's a terrible practice, wholly ineffective, and neighboring on pathological to instill terror into your staff

The point of drills that simulate reality effectively is to get you comfortable enough with taking the necessary actions at the required times that you will not have terror instilled in you. This is why armies around the world all do 'live fire' exeercise and so on, and why companies run BAU or DR failover tests.

[dimino]

I know why a drill happens. I also know why they don't actually burn down buildings during fire drills.

[skj]

I assume that's because you don't get the building back? I think they get the kid back in these particular drills.

If not, then yeah this is a terrible idea.

[atourgates]

Ha! Yeah, we got the kid back. They'd spend the drill hidden in the admin office, eating ice cream.

Really the most worrying part of the whole thing was teaching the stolen kids that if an adult walks up to them and tells them to quietly sneak away, they get ice cream.

[dimino]

Yeah, also the trauma and panic it incites.

[ycombobreaker]

Fire departments actually do burn down buildings as drills.