[blparent] Lockdown Drill at School

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I agree completely!  I think we're instilling fear into an entire generation 
of innocent children in the hopes of saving one or two of them in case of a 
tragedy that might happen somewhere, at some time.  We're building an 
illusion of safety because we don't know what else to do in the face of 
wanting to control something there's no way anyone can possibly control.

They've started this whole A-L-I-C-E system now.  Alert, Lockdown, Inform, 
Counter, Evacuate.  Which is the whole thing about getting the kids along 
the cinderblock wall lined with cupboards, away from the windows.  A good 
start, I guess.  The teacher is supposed to act calm and reassuring, which I 
suppose she did on Tuesday.  All the while, if it's not a drill, she's 
supposed to shove desks and chairs up against the classroom door and find 
something nearby with which to do battle.  I hate to think much about it, 
God help me.  But if a gunman really was coming into that kindergarten 
classroom, those pressboard desks wouldn't stop a machine gun at all, and he 
could fire dozens of rounds before she'd have a chance to do battle with 
anything likely to come to hand.  So what's ALICE worth then?

Anyway, my point is, it's all to make us feel better, like we're really 
doing something.  But anyway, this is beyond the scope of the original 
question, because I expect the lockdown drills are here to stay, whether we 
like them or not.  We live in interesting times!

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jodie and Kahlan
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 5:43 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blparent] Lockdown Drill at School

OK, I hit a wrong button, so sorry if you get this twice.

This is why I don't approve of lock down drills at school; fire drills,
yes, but lock down drills, no. What are the chances that a fire will
happen versus the chances that a school shooting will happen? Has
anyone in the media bothered to do research on this, or is it all about
creating panic and filling parents and children with fear so people
will watch their network or read their newspapers? I saw that free
range kids piece. These administrators need to have some perspective
knocked into them! The teachers in that free range kids article who
didn't know acted more scared than the kids. I'm sure that helped the
kids feel just wonderful! As if the possibility of being shot wasn't
bad enough, now they had to watch their teacher have a melt down! The
drills are not helping anyone! When are these people going to get that
through their skulls!

-- 
Hugs from Jodie and kahlan
"Only a fool walks into the future backward."
Terry Goodkind

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