out this week, from Every Town for Gun Safety). Most procedures begin with the teacher locking the door and turning off the lights, while students crouch in the corner or hide in a closet. More involved simulations feature school officials “shooting” other school officials, and even teaching children how to fight off an active shooter using pencils, books, desks and other objects.
In this May 6, 2016, photo, Forest Dale Elementary School principal Deanna Pitman, right, and Carmel, police officer Greg DeWald welcome students as they return to the school following an intruder drill at the school in Carmel, Ind.
SusieKline WBUR And some folks teach their kids to trust the cops. We live in the Twilight Zone now.
WBUR Then, How do you rate NUKE drills done in the 60's?
WBUR Why would you teach kids to hide it just makes it easier for the shooter to hunt them down and kill them.
WBUR The truth is NO ONE really knows what they would do in an actual situation. No matter what the emergency, the number of variables is too great. I’m not saying to put our heads in the sand, but rather address the things we can control,
WBUR They used to fill our elementary school with fake smoke once a year for a fire drill. Didn’t scar me but I see the point the author is trying to make.
WBUR Can't believe this is a thing... Sometimes I forget each district is different and what mine does (or doesn't) may not match the rest.
WBUR To desensitize them
WBUR WTF? Hell no!
WBUR My daughter attended a school in Marion County Florida for 6 months, she was 5 at the time, and in kindergarten. The school was locked down at least 4 times while she was there, because the neighbouring high school had threats of school shootings there...
senatorjen WBUR WTF
WBUR It's all theater until some gun-toting teacher or bystander shoots the 'assailant'. Oops.
WBUR Exactly, WTF...?
WBUR Everyone knows what a fire looks and smells like. Not everyone knows what a gunshot sounds like. Most mistake it for something else. Crucial reaction time is lost. Now back to feather pillows and couches.
WBUR I don’t think police should be firing blanks but there is nothing wrong with being prepared for an emergency
WBUR Most lockdown drills do NOT include live fire activities. In 13 years plus of teaching, never have my students faced the firing of blanks and I’ve only experienced it once.
WBUR If that was a real question, here is the obvious answer: because fires do not purposely walk the halls and classrooms selecting certain victims. Shooters also move dramatically faster than fires. But you know that. You want no solution save no guns at all anywhere.
WBUR To make kids more & more afraid of guns. Teens used to leave rifles in the back of their truck at school for hunting before/after and no one was shot. We need to bring gun safety back to schools. People are much, much less likely to misuse a tool they understand without fear.
WBUR If you train the kids on where to go when there's a shooter, there's a good chance you're training the shooter where to go to find the kids.
WBUR Pretty difficult to politicize fires.
WBUR FlemingLAUSD Parents, this is a warning. Stop your schools from allowing the government and state do this to our children. How poignant that the activist is your neighbor in Palos Verdes.
WBUR Remember when they practiced hiding under desks in case of a nuclear bomb?..
WBUR You...the liberals...created this generation of children who were taught to challenge authority... Now live with your results.
WBUR homeschool. homeschool. homeschool.
WBUR To maximize fear
WBUR To normalize and inure them to state violence
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