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My youngest (5 in Kindergarten) got in trouble for talking today - which is not unusual, he's gotten in trouble for talking everyday since school started, LOL!
But he told me it was during a "lock down drill".
Apparently because of all the school shootings around the country over the past few years, the schools here are now doing lock down drills in addition to fire and tornado drills.
Last year they just had the teachers do them before school started, for fear of terrifying the students; but it was decided that the kids did need to know what to do in case a gunman ever entered the school - so now we have these drills.
This makes me incredibly sad.
I tried to explain to my son why it was so important that he stay quiet during this drill, but it was so hard finding the words. What do I tell a 5 yr old? "Sweetie, you have to be real quiet because you don't want the crazy man with the gun to hear you and know you are in the room - because then he might come and kill you." There is just no way to convey THAT without scaring the child half to death, and ensuring that he will not sleep for a month. Much less ever want to go to school again!
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I completely agree that this has gotten out of hand. Lock-downs are scary even for teachers. My best friend teaches math in a HS and during a lock-down she began having panic attacks becuase she was visualizing everything that could happen.
How much scarier for a child!
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BellaOnline Editor Wolf
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Lock Down drills are scary but they are also unfortunately necessary.
Pretty soon the drills will be common place in the minds of children as fire drills are.
I remember when I was in Kindergarten through the third grade, we had air raid drills at my school and this was near the end of the Vietnam Travesty. The alarms would go off and we had to go to the gym and get under desks that were set up there and cover our heads as well. That was a pretty scary time, not knowing if a plane was going to fly overhead and drop a bomb on us.
Eventually we will see more armed security guards and police patrols at the schools and that will be scary as well but also necessary.
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Jellyfish
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Yeah... I taught high school and the drills were really disturbing. Especially since I taught and live in an area of NJ that lost a LOT of people in 9/11.
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Jellyfish
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At my school we have drills all the time, even in the winter(BURRRRRRRR) Lock downs we just sit in the corner, but once we actually had a nude person in the hallways!!!!!CREEPY!!!!!!! Its not really scary, it was hard to stay quiet when i was younger, but now that im 14 its even HARDER! LOL!!!! People with gun s are possible in my school. We have like eight fire drills every school year and like 2 lock down drills. but we get to cut some classes so its all good to me! LOL!
Darci
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Jellyfish
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Oh yeah we have a cop in our school, hes arrested students before. Oh yeah once my best friends boyfriend had a knife, like a knife he left in his pocket from hunting and the school flipped, the cop got all in his face. Soon schools will have to check every student for knifes,guns,and drugs. We had a eigth grader(in my grade last year) and a sixth grader doi8ng pot in the school bathroom!!!!!! We are a small school, but still things happen!
Darci
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