What’s wrong with lockdown drills for school shootings?

What’s wrong with lockdown drills.... How about they're not tackling the root of the problem?

This is horrific. And completely bizarre. Living in NZ I have never had to worry about my kids being shot at school. I can't imagine how terrifying the whole thing must be for children, teachers and parents.

The Barcelona school my children attended did a drill without notice to parents that absolutely traumatized my then kindergartener. Then they complained to me that for weeks afterward he was trying to climb the fences that gate in the playground - because they'd made him feel uncertain and unsafe - he was trying to be prepared to escape. Spain doesn't even have America's gun problem.

Other than making our kids live in a war zone rather than get serious about confronting our gun problem?

What a madness! One of the richest countries in the world needs to make drills against school shootings 😢

In Asia they do earthquake and fire drill. America has unique set of problem's

My parents kept a newspaper photo of me as a kid crying hysterically after participating in a fire evacuation simulation at the state fair and I'm now a well adjusted adult....mostly.

There was a particularly bad accident that nearly resulted in a death at my old school a while ago. This happened shortly after the shooting where police waited for hours to storm the building, so the 7/11 gets robbed for the 3rd time that year and by proxy the school goes on lockdown and sends a VERY vague email to both parents and teachers. This lead to a parent armed with a gun trying to break into the school, I still remember being crowded in the locker room, watching as students cry and call their parents and the teachers trying to do their best to maintain order. Due to the noticeable fear the teachers were displaying student became louder, which only served to increase fear once the teachers couldn’t keep the kids quiet. I just sort of zoned out and though to myself well I guess this may be where I die. Somehow the gunman was peacefully apprehended and the police didn’t shoot on sight, he ended up doing community service and the school just pretended it never happened

The purpose of a routine drill is so that it becomes 2nd nature in the event of emergency. If there are schools that are simulating realistic events of this nature, this would be a problem. A realistic event simulation with children involved is a horrible idea & counterproductive. Generally speaking - When one knows what to do in the event of emergency, they are less inclined to panic & shut down during an event as well as remain abnormally fearful of a future event that may or may not happen. Knowing what to do is empowering & life saving.

With the US thanksgiving approaching I'll just say how thankful I am to not be living in such an insane country.

Symptom of a sick society.

Our teacher told us if the shooter is reported in an area away from ours that we should dash out the exit and to the generator shack in the woods.

We go on soft lockdowns frequently when the local bear shows up.

what ca be wrong with such drills for kids in a culture of violence? Perhaps change the culture through education?!

In a real lockdown no one is calmly sitting in the corner one of the most scared times I've ever been was when we had a lockdown drill in elementary except they didn't say it was a lockdown until it was over if they say before hand no one takes it seriously say afterwards everyone's traumatised but again they're pointless in a real event no one is grouping up in the corner

The students at my school don't even actually do the drills anymore because we've had so many fake ones.. the way some schools do them is terrifying.

Last Friday at my school, we had a lockdown drill. There were 2 people laughing, so what does my teacher do? Give the entire class a detention, of course! We get to serve it next Monday

They did the same thing in the cold war times for air raids. But they told the kids they would survive under their wooden desks from an atomic bomb remember. Nothing that we are going through today is original we went through it in some other form before. Kids were terrified in school during the cold wars. And it looks like we plan to keep that tradition

I hardly dream but when I do, it's weird

They should start playing my favorite rap song on the radio too- duck and cover