A miscommunication over a planned lockdown drill on Friday at one Queen Creek school campus unintentionally triggered drills throughout the district while the real thing was happening at Queen Creek High School.
A school in the Queen Creek Unified School District had scheduled a lockdown drill but the notification for the planned exercise “was unintentionally shared with all QCUSD sites,” according to a statement from the district.
“Because schools were not yet aware that the alert was connected to the scheduled drill, they followed standard procedures and initiated a lockdown as a precaution,” the statement continued…