Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Lock-down drills

Tonight Sara (second grade) told me she had a "lock-down drill" at school. "What's that?" I asked.
"It's if someone comes into the school with a gun or a knife, or if there is a leopard outside. We lock the door and hide along the wall, but if the person is trying to kill children, he would probably just break the window in the door, and there wouldn't be anything that could be done about it!" Sara has had these lock-downs each year: preschool, kindergarten, first grade. It is good that the schools are trying to be prepared, but it is a sad commentary on our world today that they have to have these preparations.
Update: I asked Jon (sixth grade) about his lock-down experience today. "The teacher told us all to go to the corner of the room. I told the teacher that does not make sense, because the shooter could kill 20 kids with one clip! I think the teacher should keep a Golden Eagle on her desk." I asked Jon, "What's a Golden Eagle?" "It's like the king of semi-automatic pistols."
Update 2: I asked Greg (fifth grade) about his lock-down experience today. First, he reminded me that when he went to school in Colorado (home of Columbine High School) he had lots of lock-down drills, and this is "only" his second one this year in New Mexico. "The teacher told us to be completely quiet, and get really low, and go in the corner behind the round table, so the shooter might not see you when looking through the door window. I think the teacher should be armed with a revolver, and shoot him when he puts his hand through the door window to open the locked door. If you are going to be a teacher, you should have to go through Special Ops training." Greg was disappointed that the drill was conducted during his recess. "They should have had it during math!"

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