Are glow in the dark/light up shoes or clothing an issue for lockdown drills?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Children attend school during the daytime. So no.

Isn’t the core part of these drills to cut off lights to make the room dark?

It’s still daylight, hun. How dark do you think they are? Classrooms have windows.

I'm sure it varies, but closing blinds and covering windows is part of it at many schools. Hun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Children attend school during the daytime. So no.

Isn’t the core part of these drills to cut off lights to make the room dark?

It’s still daylight, hun. How dark do you think they are? Classrooms have windows.

I taught in a classroom without windows. Not sure what I would advise.

[Anonymous]

OP are you an actual adult who has raised offspring? Lord.

[Anonymous]

A drill is a DRILL. OP you’re asking about an actual event, which while terrifying is not likely to happen.

[Anonymous]

The light up shoes are more likely to be helpful when your kid is crossing the street in the evening than detrimental to safety in the event of a school shooter. If you're truly evaluating light up shoes on the basis of safety. But as a pp said many schools don't like them bc they're distracting, so I avoid them for the most part.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lockdown drills do not keep children safe, so no this is not an issue. There has never been a case where the kid hid so well, that no one got killed.

Vote to ban assault weapons and increase waiting times to buy guns. Same day gun sales should not exist.

Because nobody ever bought a gun unlawfully, stole one, or had one already. Pointless “solution.”

Thanks NRA, your canned responses are truly inspiring.

[Anonymous]

Never thought about it. I did think that the fact that I didn’t have a key to lock my classroom door might get us killed. It took months of hounding facilities to get them to put in a new lock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Teacher here. It’s a fricking drill, it doesn’t matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Children attend school during the daytime. So no.

Isn’t the core part of these drills to cut off lights to make the room dark?

Yeah, but so what? You think teachers are getting dinged by admin because a kid is wearing light up shoes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Children attend school during the daytime. So no.

Isn’t the core part of these drills to cut off lights to make the room dark?

It’s still daylight, hun. How dark do you think they are? Classrooms have windows.

I'm sure it varies, but closing blinds and covering windows is part of it at many schools. Hun.

What schools have blinds or window coverings? None I have ever seen.

And have you ever been in a room during the day with the blinds closed? It’s not dark. Dim, maybe, but not so dark that a light-up sneaker is like a beacon or something.

It was an absurdly stupid question on so many fronts. How does OP even function? Jesus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I never thought about that, OP, but you're entirely correct. I know the probability is tiny that this would ever be an issue... but this is what lax gun laws do. They don't just kill thousands of people every year; they create an atmosphere of fear across the nation.

You could keep the glowy stuff for weekends.

So are you going to keep your kids from wearing bring colors to school too? This is over the top paranoia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asking teachers for the most part. Do these distractions cause issues with keeping the children hidden etc? I’m back to school shopping and this popped into my mind with the sketchers light ups and a pair of vans glow in the dark sneakers.

Our school doesn’t involve parents in the drills but I am just thinking of whether to avoid these types of clothing items?

Children attend school during the daytime. So no.

Isn’t the core part of these drills to cut off lights to make the room dark?

It’s still daylight, hun. How dark do you think they are? Classrooms have windows.

I'm sure it varies, but closing blinds and covering windows is part of it at many schools. Hun.

And???

[Anonymous]

No.

First, they are drills. So, no.

Second, my kid has been involved in exactly one actual lockdown. They closed and locked the door and put a desk in front of it. The glow of the kids' cell phones would outshine any glow in the dark t-shirt.

[Anonymous]

Who are you to speak about someone’s kid as a snowflake? You can’t even reread your snappy remark to spell “Your” correctly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lockdown drills do not keep children safe, so no this is not an issue. There has never been a case where the kid hid so well, that no one got killed.

Vote to ban assault weapons and increase waiting times to buy guns. Same day gun sales should not exist.

Because nobody ever bought a gun unlawfully, stole one, or had one already. Pointless “solution.”

And yet, it’s worked in every other developed country in the world.