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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child’s best friend had a panic attack during a lockdown drill. Teachers do the best they can, but the kids talk to each other about why they are practicing hiding.

I also learned in a school drill planning session that it has been years since anyone died in a fire in a building with sprinklers. So given the respective mortality rates maybe we needed to increase lockdown drills and decrease the other safety procedure drills.  Our local police wanted to shoot blanks in the hall so teachers could learn the sound of gunshots.  We managed to talk them out of that while students are in the building but they may revisit in the summer.  It was the most horrifying meeting I have attended.[/quote]

I once taught at a school that brought in ALICE training. During the training we were sent to our classrooms to just pretend we were in there working. Then they entered the building and started shooting blank shots . You had to react based on where you heard the guns whether you could run or if you had to barricade your door and hunker down. They moved through the school fake shooting and attempting doors to see if your lock or barricade worked. It was terrible. They better not ever think to put kids through that. One of my coworkers had been at Virginia Tech  the day of the shooting in 2007 and he had to get permission not to participate because even the idea was so triggering to his PTSD. [/quote]

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