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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are being too dismissive.  Children talk and they will definitely remember hearing of an event like this very close to their school.  My DC still talks about suspicious package lockdowns and the earthquake evacuation.[/quote]

My daughter has attended LT for three years, & before that spent two years at a Bright Horizons center downtown, and I've lost count of the lockdowns she's been through -- I want to say three at LT and two at BH, but I might be forgetting one.

The only one that actually made me nervous was for a suspicious package near the BH center; it went on for several hours while authorities dealt with the package, and in the meantime all the kids had evacuate their usual rooms and be all the way at the other end of the building.

It's DC post-9/11; we have lockdowns. They're less scary to her than under-the-desk bomb drills were to earlier generations.[/quote]

I was not attempting to equate a man being shot and killed outside LT with the inconconveniences associated with a lock down, whether due to a unattended bag or so,etching far more serious.  Neither of my children were even aware of the events at the Navy Yard, despite our school being on lockdown, and I doubt your two or three year old was too concerned about having to play or nap in a different room at Bright Horizons.  A shooting while kids are on the playground which forces them to be herded into the school for their own safety is a different matter entirely.  This can have a profound impact on some children, especially if they learn that the gunshots led to a death.  [/quote]

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