The fact that there are “active shooter drills” in so many of our schools hurts my heart. And I find the ALICE training particularly reprehensible. Expecting children to go after the shooter???
What kind of a country are we?
Gun control NOW!!!
Tanisha was just 6-years-old the first time she was in a shooting.
She was home in the kitchen looking for a cookie when she heard a “pop pop pop” sound.
Her mother rushed into the room and told her to get down.
Tanisha didn’t know what was happening.
“Hush, Baby,” her mom said wrapping the child in her arms and pulling her to the floor. “Someone’s out there shooting up the neighborhood.”
That was a story one of my 8th grade students told me today.
And it was far from the only one.
For the first time, my urban school district in Western Pennsylvania had an ALICE training for the students.
The program helps prepare schools, businesses and churches in case of an active shooter. Its name is an acronym for its suggested courses of action – Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate.
In a district like mine…
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