Active shooter drills are scaring children and may not protect them. Some schools are taking a new approach.
"Students’ anxieties have swelled. Some are not told that the lockdowns are just drills, prompting them to send what they believe are final goodbyes over text to their parents or faint or throw up. Others are afraid to go to school in the days following the drills."
After 9/11, my daughter Claire, 11, and her dad attended a Seattle baseball game. Claire burst into tears when Blue Angels flew in formation over the open stadium.
"Daddy, I thought they were terrorists coming to bomb us!"
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I grew up doing duck and cover drills in the nuclear blast zone, talk about doing something useless that scared the kids. We even had a map of the projected blast radius handy, just so we would know we wouldn't even have time to get under our desks.
It was so cool.
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