Don't they realize there a children with sensory issues?

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At highschool thy are constructing a new building. Today at lunch they were testing the new buildings alarm, which activates all the other school alarms. The fire alarm went off 7 times during lunch. I've trained myself to be able to handle one alarm, but by the end of lunch I had had multiple shutdowns, was shaking and crying, and simply could bot function. My dad had to come and take me home, it's been 4 hours and I'm still a mess. I remeber seeing another kid with sensory issues try to run from the noise , and another have a meltdown. Why would they so this during lunch? Dont they realize some people have sensory issues? Why can't they do it after school?

Also, chances are this will happen for the next month or so. My grades can't take me missing more school, but I WILL lose it if this happens again. Any idea on how I can cope?

Schools are NOT designed for students with sensory issues! Don't know if you can do anything about it!

Could they let you go to another building or outside during the most intense use of the alarms? Like warn you and let you go somewhere else first?

I really hope you don't try to tough it out. Can you speak to a counselor or teacher or somebody, and explain the difficulty. After all, it *will* make your marks drop and you're not being fussy.

In the meantime, bring and wear earplugs - get the ones for sound (some are for swimming). Mine are orange, if I could find the beige ones I'd like that better. But they do work. There's a trick to using them, you squish the air out of them (foam rubber) and then put in your ear, so it fills up exactly to your ear and lets no sound in. I use the industrial ones that I buy on-line. You can get them in the pharmacy too. They're a big relief. If you have beige ones or long hair or a hat to hide them, you might want to wear them a lot, especially shopping and buses etc.

Good luck!

I forgot to say - I think they can't do it after hours because they would have to pay overtime.

School is hell!
They should prepare you and take you out of the situation before the alarms go off.

They should announce that they're testing the alarms, just so people don't think there's a fire!!

Do you have an IEP or a 504? If so, is there a Sensory Intervention Plan written into it? If you have both of these then they are violating you access to FAPE and they need to figure out a way to accommodate your disability in the LRE. If you don't have either of those things you need to. Hope this situation is rectified immediately.