Sandy Hook’s novel school“IT IS called a lockdown drill,” says Max, a nine-year-old pupil at a private school on the North side. “One teacher pretends to be an intruder. We absorb to hide in classroom, or turn over our desks and hide behind them. We absorb to lock the door,barricade all the heavy stuff in front of the door and occupy a book or a ruler so we can throw it at the intruder if he comes in. We absorb to be super quiet. If someone says it is secure to near out we cannot do that, because it could be the intruder. We absorb to wait for the principal to near knocking on the door to uncover us it is secure to near out.” This year has already seen the murder in February of 17 at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and which had regularly held lockdown drills for years. On May 18th a student at Santa Fe High School in Texas killed ten of his peers and wounded 13 with a shotgun and a revolver. In the days after the Santa Fe massacre Dan Patrick,the Republican...
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Source: economist.com