School Shootings and Lockdowns: How do Kids Cope?

Aug. 16, 2019 -- On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Natalie Barden was in science class getting ready to take a test. When her school -- Reed Intermediate in Newtown, CT -- went on lockdown, she and her classmates thought it was a drill."We were making light of it, practicing for the test," she says.

Statistically speaking, the odds of being killed in a school shooting are extremely low -- about 1 in 2 million. Yet experts say the constant images showing the aftermath of these violent events on TV and social media, coupled with regular school lockdown drills to prepare for them, has left America's children anxious.

School tragedies aren't a recent development. In July 1764, 10 Pennsylvania students and their teacher died in the very first school massacre. But after Columbine in 1999, school violence incidents increased, with tragedies like Sandy Hook Elementary, Santa Fe High School, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School becoming all too frequent. More people died or were injured in mass school shootings during the first 18 years of the 21st century than in the entire 20th century.

Although research on how well these drills work is scarce, real-life experiences show they do work. Schildkraut says Sandy Hook was a model for their value. The school had practiced a drill just a week before the shooting."Had they not had the training they did have, it probably would have been a lot worse," she says.

Some well-meaning schools don't give students enough tools to know how to react during a real active shooter incident. Two years ago, Elsa's school went on lockdown. It turned out to be a false alarm, but at the time, students had no idea whether the threat was real.

My 9 years old grandson Ethan, thinks that : ' THE BEST SOLUTION TO AVOID GETTING KILL AT THE SCHOOL... - IF THERE WILL BE A SHOOTING - IS ....TO STAY AT HOME '....I asked him: until when?..His answer was: ' FOREVER AND EVER '.....

I'm not getting the relevance of school lockdowns for a medical info website. I'll rework it: When is America going to Lockdown medical facilities?...and jail all doctors, hospital officials and their govt partners in crime for massive numbers of sex crimes, killings and thefts.

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