My kids say that this drill has been talked about for weeks at school. There's even been staff telling students that if the drill crosses over into time for them to go to votech, that they're excused from votech for the day. That certainly implies detention (either on or off campus) to me. I do not get the impression that the leaving the campus is a hyped up rumor, but this cannot be confirmed. There were not rumors of leaving campus when they were forced to participate in the earthquake drill about a month ago.

As far as the HS kids have been told by the staff, they're being taken to the middle high campus a few miles away. But I find that hard to believe. Unless they're evacuating that school too.

I have a gut feeling that this is to train our young people that it's okay to be rounded up by men in uniform holding guns and lights flashing everywhere.