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[quote=Anonymous]Have your kids been through a lockdown drill since the start of this school year? Have they discussed how their school is handling active assailants?

Per one of my children’s high schools, now lockdowns are only for situations like a police manhunt nearby or an unauthorized person bypassing procedures for entering the school. Lockdowns will no longer be used in situations where there is an active assailant (such as an active shooter).

Since experts now advise that in the event of an active shooter, you should run till you can’t run, hide till you can’t hide, and fight till you can’t fight (in that order), students are being taught an acronym for this: ADD. [b]A[/b]void [b]D[/b]eny [b]D[/b]efend. Students were told that they will not be practicing active assailant drills because such drills could be traumatic and because students aren’t supposed to follow a predetermined plan or have any muscle memory from practicing, the way they would with a tornado drill. This is quite the reversal of previous lockdown protocols for active shooters. I don’t know what the active assailant protocol is for younger students.

Also, Shelter in Place and Modified Shelter in Place orders have been renamed Secure and Hold. I’m not sure if the actual protocols changed. Secure is for situations like a wild animal wandering into the school. Hold is for situations where there’s zero threat present, but the school wants to keep the halls clear, such as someone having a medical emergency and EMTs arriving.
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