Changes urged for "active-shooter drills"

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Teacher unions, gun-control advocates urge changes to active-shooter drills, citing student trauma
Now, a leading gun-control advocacy group and the nation’s two largest teacher unions are calling on schools to halt the most extreme active-shooter drills, such as those that occur without advanced warning and include simulated gunfire. For other kinds of lockdown drills, the groups laid out guidelines they say could minimize trauma for students, while emphasizing that little proof exists the drills make students safer in a shooting.

In a white paper published Tuesday, Everytown for Gun Safety, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association cited mounting anecdotal evidence that the drills, while intended to keep students safe, are inflicting trauma and leaving children anxious, rattled and unable to focus in the classroom. Researchers who have begun to study the problem are making similar findings.

“There’s very little data that shows that these drills are effective,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, which advocates for strong gun restrictions and is part of Everytown. “There is data that shows that they cause trauma and anxiety in kids.”

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Bisbee wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:31 pm Simulated gunfire?!? During a school drill?!? Are those administrators nuts or just sadistic?
I can see a lot of small town Trumpists laughing about it, myself. While I have never personally seen a MAGA hat here in Georgia, I have seen variations of this slogan on trucks, cars, and clothing:

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Those drills are just a cop out to make worried parents think something is being done to protect their children. There is only one way to protect school communities. No drill is going to stop a shooter from getting into the building or stop the shooter once into the building. Even having an armed security will not stop a deranged person who is not going to stopped by the possibility of dying. There is only one way to minimize harm in any active shooter situation: kill the shooter. Schools ought to be focused on fast lethal responses to a shooter. Having often been shot at in Vietnam I can say from experience that getting shot at sucks, and the best way to stop it is to shoot back.

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School shootings are rare. Our reactions to them could be causing kids more harm than good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... t-control/

-It is 10 times more likely that a student will die on the way to school.
-Our chances of dying in a fire are also much greater — 1 in 1,500. But we don’t overreact.
-More children have died from lightning strikes than from mass shootings in schools in the past 20 years.
-Restaurants have 10 times as many homicides as schools. Why do we want to arm teachers and not wait staffs?
In the two decades since Columbine, there have been 10 mass shootings in schools according to a recent analysis by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has been studying school violence for several decades. In total, 81 people have been killed, 64 of them students. That’s an average of four deaths per year, three of them students.

Even one death is too many. But for perspective, 729 children committed suicide with a firearm in 2017, and 863 were victims of homicides by guns that year.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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K9s wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 4:51 pm School shootings are rare. Our reactions to them could be causing kids more harm than good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... t-control/

-It is 10 times more likely that a student will die on the way to school.
-Our chances of dying in a fire are also much greater — 1 in 1,500. But we don’t overreact.
-More children have died from lightning strikes than from mass shootings in schools in the past 20 years.
-Restaurants have 10 times as many homicides as schools. Why do we want to arm teachers and not wait staffs?
In the two decades since Columbine, there have been 10 mass shootings in schools according to a recent analysis by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has been studying school violence for several decades. In total, 81 people have been killed, 64 of them students. That’s an average of four deaths per year, three of them students.

Even one death is too many. But for perspective, 729 children committed suicide with a firearm in 2017, and 863 were victims of homicides by guns that year.
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