commoncore, I have tears in my eyes for you. I get the need for lockdown drills, I do, but that is fucking insane and I would not be able to teach in that environment. I'm so sorry
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Maybe if the photos of the scene at Sandy Hook had been released, and the public could see that this was not a TV-clean thing, where everyone looks like they're just sleeping. If people really knew what it looks like when you have to identify children's bodies by their backpacks. Maybe that would have changed hearts and minds and priorities. Maybe the sheer horror of just knowing that a classroom full of six year olds was massacred simply wasn't enough to make an impact on Americans, maybe we're so jaded that we needed to see it. I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't have, because we are just so far gone as a society that there is literally nothing that we find more important than our guns, maybe we are so stupid as a people that we are willing to sacrifice our own children to the gun industry's profit line.
I tend to think that if a classroom full of mostly white, middle class (because let's face it, that matters) children barely old enough to tie their shoes being slaughtered didn't make a difference, there isn't anything that will, short of literally every single person losing a child to gun violence and making every single American an activist. But then you see people like those in Kentucky who gave their kid a gun, and their kid used that gun to accidentally shoot and kill their two year old daughter, and they're like, meh, whatever, Jesus and guns, yah!
As horrific as it would be to see those images, I think that may be the only thing that could *maybe* change some people's thinking. There will always be those that don't care, or whose gun ownership matters more than our babies, but I think there are some whose minds would change.
I guess I've done so many drills I'm hardened to it. I'm saddened by the deaths of course but the drills do not upset me. We do drills for all sorts of things. I'd rather my 4 year old practice than not be prepared god forbid.
This is me too. I don't even really think about it.
That being said - we do lock down drills but we don't live in constant fear of the kind school violence the US has seen. It has happened, but not nearly as often. So I am sure the drills don't carry the same kind of stress.
But damn, you don't have a heart if the idea of a room full of fucking first graders dead doesn't get you :/
That's exactly it. And frankly, those parents should not have to go through the pain of having those beyond horrific images public, not after the unspeakable pain they've already been through, just because some people in this country are completely and total assholes without a conscience.
This is also one of the big reasons why I'm terrified to move to Texas. Everyone has a gun, at least one. So does that increase the odds of some punk grabbing their parent's gun and taking it school? Will my children be at a significantly greater risk just being kids because, god forbid, every man woman and child needs to own five AR-15's?
But damn, you don't have a heart if the idea of a room full of fucking first graders dead doesn't get you :/
That's exactly it. And frankly, those parents should not have to go through the pain of having those beyond horrific images public, not after the unspeakable pain they've already been through, just because some people in this country are completely and total assholes without a conscience.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Post by Melissa W. on Oct 30, 2014 19:08:55 GMT -5
I used to volunteer regularly in my daughter's first grade class. During one of my visits we had a lock down drill. It was terrifying but the kids took it.in stride and did really well.
I am not sure what the fuck will change things. Even in CT, we have gun manufacturers basically calling the shots.
We have already had one "shelter in place" this year. You can go one with teaching and you (adults) can leave the building, but no one can get in.
The power went out at my school today,thankfully it was the last 30 minutes of school. It wasn't very scary, until one kid got really scared and said "do the fire alarms work when the power is out? Because what would we do if there was a fire?" He was almost ready to cry. And this was just the power going out. I could not imagine if there was an active shooting or other type of dire situation. We don't even have a closet to hid in.