By Kamryn Drach

Practicing Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate is the drill the school systems are using in case of in an emergency.

Administration informs students if there is an intruder in the building and what they need to do to keep safe, and teachers are taught what to do to keep themselves and students safe. It is important the schools are practicing what to do if ever needed to be in a lockdown.

The high school held a drill to see how students would do in a situation and to learn what to do. If there was an intruder, students have either a certain route to take to get out or a plan to barricade and hide in rooms. The decision depends on where the intruder is and where they are going. Teachers explained to classes that if their house is close they should go there.

“I didn’t know what to do, it was not planned out well,” junior Kayla Valente said.

Teachers told classes they were either running or barricading.

“I saw one class actually running,” said Sophi Perez.

Students were told they were going half way to there destination point, and instead students only went to places surrounding the school.

“We stood in the field as an easy target,” junior Kathrine Doty said.

The day before, the students were told to run halfway to their destination. Instead, they only went as far as the concession stand or trees in the field. Students were told to be serious and take this seriously and act like it was real.

People during the drill were talking, walking and carrying on. Students were told not to do those things but yet they did. It was just a drill but it could have been taken more serious.

It is a pretentious person’s favorite thing to say, “athletes get paid way too much; all they do is play a game and make millions. It is not fair.”

This may be true. According to businessinsider.com, an average professional basketball player’s salary is $5.15 million a year.

This is an enormous amount of money to play a child’s recreational game. 5.15 million dollars seems monstrous compared to payscale.com’s average yearly salary for a police officer at $56,130. An adult who risks his/her life to protect the law abiding citizens of the United States makes 8% of what an NBA player makes. Something is wrong here.

People wonder who to blame for this. They have no one to blame but themselves. The general public is the only one responsible.

The general public are the ones who pay $110 for a Joe Haden jersey. They let Nike tell them a pair of Lebron James basketball shoes are worth $250.

All of that money is not directly pocketed by Nike or whatever brand is selling it. Athletes are endorsed by companies, getting paid by the company for the athlete to wear their products and the company in turn can use their name for products or even commercials.

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant was recently offered $265-$285 million over 10 years by Under Armor.

Someone’s name and image should not be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This is only able to happen because people are willing to pay whatever price the corporations say they will pay.

It seems like a big cycle to me. Athletes start new trends and then the big corporations will sell that trend and make huge profit off the new style, thus increasing the corporation’s profit and their ability to pay athletes these huge endorsements.  

Overpaid athletes have only the chumps overpaying for brand-name apparel to thank for their enormous salary.