So -- funny story.

At my mum's school (she taught at a different school than me and my siblings went to) they had regular fire drills. (We had them at our school as well).

But at my mum's school the fire brigade sometimes took one or two students, or a teacher, aside and kept them inside the school during the fire drill, to test whether or not registers were being taken properly.

The idea being that when the register was taken, and little Susie Jones or Mister Smith (the biology teacher) wasn't present, the responsible member of staff would alert the fire brigade and they would go back into the building to "search for the missing person"

However one year they decided to stop doing it, because apparently one of the firemen approached a third year girl (aged 13) and asked if she wouldn't mind going into a cupboard with him, and she KICKED HIM IN THE LEG and ran away screaming about this creepy man who was trying to get her to go into a cupboard.

She attracted quite a lot of attention -- most of the staff and almost all of the students -- and they eventually calmed her down and explained what was going on. She was a little embarrassed but also quite proud of kicking him so hard.

So yeah -- after that they stopped taking kids aside and kept it to taking staff aside because no one else wanted to get kicked.