The Conversation – Jaclyn Schildkraut
“School lockdown drills and exercises are controversial today, due in large part to some troubling examples making headlines. Teachers in Monticello, Indiana, for example, were hurt when they got shot in the back with plastic pellets. Students in Franklin, Ohio, were exposed to sounds of simulated gunfire. Sometimes, role-playing kids and teens, covered in fake blood, are scattered throughout their schools – screaming. Parents who fear that these experiences could be traumatizing their children are objecting and calling for schools to stop holding them. Rather than reduce the harm caused during mass shootings, they say, dramatic approaches cause harm by amplifying students’ fears about the danger of being shot at school.” (more)