Opinion: I recently took part in my first 'active killer' school drill. It was as terrifying as it was misguided

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Opinion: I recently took part in my first 'active killer' school drill. It was as terrifying as it was misguided (via latimesopinion)

allowing teachers to carry guns in schools, my high school students were settling into the languid routines of study hall. Some asked for library passes. Others sprawled over laptops and textbooks or pulled copies of “Monster” by Walter Dean Myers from my bookcase. Despite being told to put their electronics away, earphone cords hung like IV lines, tethering minds to phones.

“Excuse me,” said one student who spent study hall tweaking $70 wigs she makes and sells. “Won’t the shooter know there are people on the other side of that big old X?”“No,” she was told. “He’s looking for live bodies. When he doesn’t see any, he’ll move on.”For weeks, the blue Xs hovered like crosses, reminding me of the possibility of mass death in my English classroom.

After we were dispatched to various classrooms for the actual drill, we asked unimaginable questions: Which drywall corner was best to hide in? Can a semiautomatic weapon shoot open a steel door? If the shooter enters the adjoining classroom, can he shoot through this flimsy partition wall?

 

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