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Making students believe they’re about to die is not a lockdown drill. It’s abuse.

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Making students believe they’re about to die is not a lockdown drill. It’s abuse.

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This is an interesting opinion piece. It's a shame that these drills are even necessary. I can remember having tornado drills and such when I was in school but nothing like this. School officials need to be very clear that they are doing a drill. No need to freak out and traumatize students needlessly.

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Re: Making students believe they’re about to die is not a lockdown drill. It’s abuse.

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When I went to school I loved fire drills. A break from the routine, But we never had a shooter drill.
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Re: Making students believe they’re about to die is not a lockdown drill. It’s abuse.

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Unfortunately these are becoming the norm and they shouldn't even be a thing. I didn't mind the drills either, a nice diversion out of class. We shouldn't have to change the way we live and we do things. But since the powers that be won't do anything to curb such violence, I guess it's up to us to make sure the kiddos stay safe.
Turkeytop wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:05 pm When I went to school I loved fire drills. A break from the routine, But we never had a shooter drill.
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Our public schools are taking safety measures against military assault rifle attacks, but they don't let the "security advisors" get out of hand . Some of these guys are nutsola.
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Re: Making students believe they’re about to die is not a lockdown drill. It’s abuse.

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When I was a kid we did nuclear attack drills during the Cold war. They ramped up during the Cuban Missile crisis.
If you think about it that was several notches more serious.
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Kids are dying for the right for mouth breathers to have guns.
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Just had this happen a month or two downriver. A middle schooler from one district did a social media threat against a middle school in a neighboring district. He wasn't serious. Kids kidding back and forth.

The targeted school district closed for the day. The school district the threat came from didn't close. They did have the elementary students practicing how to secure the classroom. Made a game out of it. Kids had no idea what it was about.
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craig11152 wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:27 pm When I was a kid we did nuclear attack drills during the Cold war. They ramped up during the Cuban Missile crisis.
If you think about it that was several notches more serious.
I certainly hope the new drills are a little more productive than having the students crawl under their chairs like the nuclear attack drills we did.
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Bryce wrote: Thu May 25, 2023 8:08 am
craig11152 wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:27 pm When I was a kid we did nuclear attack drills during the Cold war. They ramped up during the Cuban Missile crisis.
If you think about it that was several notches more serious.
I certainly hope the new drills are a little more productive than having the students crawl under their chairs like the nuclear attack drills we did.
They can flip the desks on their side and hide behind them…. Even get exercise by having to move them.
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Turkeytop wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:05 pm When I went to school I loved fire drills. A break from the routine, But we never had a shooter drill.
Same!

Sadly, we've reached this point and honestly this is just the new normal, if something were to have been done about it, it would have been happened by now.
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Those DAMN fire drills at my school were quite scary until I left on May 23, 1985!!
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mattjr wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 3:59 am Those DAMN fire drills at my school were quite scary until I left on May 23, 1985!!
The day you turned 16?
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At every "gun free" location they should probably have signage posted saying something like "Targets located in here".

Maybe some folks would rethink those crazy policies.
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Round Six wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:11 am
mattjr wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 3:59 am Those DAMN fire drills at my school were quite scary until I left on May 23, 1985!!
The day you turned 16?
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I remember the nuke drills, years later I figured we weren't under the tables to survive, just to make it easier to find our remains.
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