Lockdown drills: What are school shooting trainings teaching kids?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/12/lockdown_drills_what_are_school_shooting_trainings_teaching_kids.html

This is the way we live now.

• Ukiah, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 10. Three South Ukiah schools locked down after a report of a man with a rifle near the church behind one of the schools.
• Hiddenite, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 10: Hiddenite Elementary school locked down after a nearby bank robbery.
• Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Dec. 10: Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School locked down after a “vague threat” found written on a bathroom wall.
• Lake Villa, Ill., Tuesday, Dec. 10: Five Lake County schools locked down over two separate incidents, one involving a man wielding a rifle in his home during a domestic dispute, the other involving a student who brought a weapon to a middle school.

i saw this and thought good follow up to 6 yr. old Casanova.  we have to be careful everything we do in their presence or things the see on TV goes to shape who they will be.  those we herald and those we demonize were all subject to their life direction, we never know who will or won't be the next mass something or serial something else.

Every day in this country, a school goes into lockdown after a bomb or a gun threat, a neighborhood crime or domestic dispute, or a false alarm. To prepare for such events schools must have (asmandated in some states) lockdown drills to train students on what the appropriate lockdown procedures are.

I find myself joining many other parents who worry that in teaching our children how to behave when somebody storms their classroom with a gun, we have unloosed something dramatic upon them without much serious reflection. Lockdowns are simply what we do now.

My son’s elementary school was locked down the first week of school this fall when shots were heard in the neighborhood. He tells me they all pack themselves into the closet. He’s 8. But how often should we have lockdowns and why and when and how do they work?  How are parents notified and what happens to the kids in the bathroom or off campus and who is studying the effects of all this

we have more control than we think, each identical situation is different and should be treated as such.  human nature is a bottomless pit of if i coulda, woulda, shoulda, and while we stumble through that mine field what message are we sending our kids, panic and confusion helps no one.