[blparent] Lockdown Drill at School

[Star Gazer]

This is the third generation that has had to deal with processes that won't
work should the real event happen. 
It all got started in the 1950's during the Cold War and, it hasn't stopped.

It isn't worth stressing over in my opinion. 

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 8:16 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Lockdown Drill at School

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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