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A state memo noted national concerns about lockdown drills causing unintended trauma to students, staff and families. NY schools must notify parents of lockdown drills, try to avoid unintended ...
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre that saw two teenagers kill 12 students and one teacher. Since then a sharp increase in lockdown drills have been ...
On the second day of the school year in Charlotte, North Carolina, Taylor Maxwell dropped off her 3-year-old at the preschool where her daughter has participated in lockdown drills since she was 2.
There is a movement among national teacher organizations to end these drills. One such voice is the Massachusetts Teachers Association labor union. Merrie Najimy, the head of the MTA, said in 2020 that the drills are "scary" and "stressful" for students and that "lockdown is just a narrow and fear-based view of how to address a serious problem.
A stay-at-home order, safer-at-home order, movement control order – also referred to by loose use of the terms quarantine, isolation, or lockdown – is an order from a government authority that restricts movements of a population as a mass quarantine strategy for suppressing or mitigating an epidemic or pandemic by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or for work in ...
The schools hold at least two lockdown drills per year, and use a "Text-a-Tip" hotline for students to report suspicious behavior. Each school has a "Safe Schools Ambassador," a student trained to work within their peer groups to prevent bullying, teasing, and violence on campuses. [6]
Rep. Jennifer Boylan was at her son's elementary school for a Valentine's Day party in 2013, shortly after the Sandy Hook mass shooting.During the festivities, the school held a lockdown drill ...
Teachers play dead during a lockdown drill. As school starts to get underway across the U.S. in the coming weeks, many students and teachers will undergo mass shooting drills.