[blparent] School shooting drills?
Kate McEachern
kflsouth at gmail.com
Mon May 7 09:47:55 UTC 2012
We have a smaller verssion of these in elamentrhy school. They have drills
for lockdowns so there not too bad. But, it is a bit sad that kids now have
to be preppared for everything.
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
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Subject: [blparent] School shooting drills?
> Students Participating in Fake 'School Shootings' May End Up More Anxious
> Than Prepared
>
> Posted by Jeanne Sager on May 2, 2012
> How's this for unsettling? I hit the website of my local paper to see
> pictures of a school up the road from me filled with cops brandishing big
> guns. The good news? It was all a drill. The bad news? High school
> shootings have now become so commonplace that teachers and students are
> now practicing for them!
>
> The photos from the local school are an example of a national trend. Mock
> shooting drills are now lined up on the school calendar right along with
> the fire drills of our youth. This is our reality.
>
> Schools here in New York. Schools in Florida. Schools in Michigan. They've
> all let men with guns into the building so teachers, and in some schools,
> the teenagers too can practice -- in a safe manner -- what to do if a
> child turns into a killer. They're hoping to save lives by being
> proactive.
>
> I trust the members of law enforcement who led the shooting scenario in my
> area. I understand their reasoning for trying it out. I want my kid to be
> properly prepped for an emergency. I went through fire drills and mock DWI
> accident drills and God knows what else drills back in my day, and I admit
> they helped. When I hear a fire alarm, I know what to do.
>
> But that doesn't mean I like it.
>
> Yes; a shooting may happen. But actually, thankfully, the statistics say
> it probably won't. Just this February, in the wake of the horrific
> shooting in Chardon, Ohio, Justice Department's Bureau of Justice
> Statistics released a study showing school-related violent deaths are at
> an all-time low since it began tracking such deaths in 1992. And these are
> the statistics we need to focus on.
>
> We send our kids off to school each day thinking that they are going to a
> safe place. We aren't naive. We're aware there are shootings. But we have
> to focus on the positive in order to get through the day, in order to
> entrust teachers with our most precious "belongings" so to speak. The
> reasoning is two-pronged. It's to make us feel better, but it's also to
> comfort our kids. This is a place where they spend much of their lives;
> they need to feel safe there.
>
> A school shooting drill takes the careful fantasy we have built and rips
> it in two. And for what? For the possibility that there may be a shooting
> at our kids' school?
>
> I understand why law enforcement is suggesting these drills. But if they
> are the new normal, I'm afraid of what we're accepting as "normal."
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