This post from a teacher at Apalachee HS. Every politician should be required to read it and explain their plan for preventing this from ever happening again.
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This one was not a drill, it was one of the teachers at the most recent shooting, but yes there are some fairly traumatizing drills being run across the country because there are no standards on this and some people in charge think making it traumatizing teaches it better. 🤢
As has been said, this was a recent real shooting. It's just disgusting that police are more than willing to open fire on the victims of their incompetence.
J D Vance, running for VP of the only country where this still happens, says we can't solve it, even though everyone else.
"School shooting are just a fact of life" is the Republican take. They will jail you for an abortion, but are OK with kids getting shot in school as a fact of American Life.
Unbelievable that brave people like that have to even think that way, and yet the only way to stop it is to remove every republican from office or maybe if a shooter entered one of their meeting they would think differently about weapons of mass destruction.
It’s to remove every Republican from office, including at least adding 5 Dems to the Supreme Court. My recollection is that Steve Scalise was shot in a mass shooting event but continues to get an A+ NRA rating.
My middle school students have informed me that they will be finding me, as I am the only teacher in the school that has survived a coup and has any real experience in running from AR style weapons.
12 year olds should not have to consider these things.
Tragic, all the more because the fix is so clear: stop electing any gun safety deniers into public offices. That's what the NRA rating is good for, but in most cases we can also use the signifier "(R)."
I feel this in my soul. MY KIDS. I feel every word written. I **hated** running active shooter drills. The fear, the silent crying, cowering, all because it’s easier than trying to target the cause. Thankfully, we never had to use the plan. Hopefully, they never will again.
I think we need some bots. They save the last, say, five years of threads.Every time a new school shooting occurs, the bots flood all social media accounts for all politicians with links to all those saved threads.
My sister is a 7th-grade teacher. Every day she goes to work, I make her text me during the day whenever she has a spare minute or two to do it. I always tell her I love her and that she's the best sister in the world. I never know if it'll be the last time I talk to her.
I lied. I lied to my kids today in second period. I told them it was just a drill. I told them to get behind my couches (thank GOD I ditched desks and have bulky furniture!) and be quiet - the more quiet we are the faster the drill will end.
I knew it was a lie. I knew this was what I always plan my furniture arrangement for every year. My kids were able to just hide and not panic for over 10 minutes, until we heard the banging on doors, walkie talkies, and yelling in the hallway. Then I had to come clean.
My kids - and that's what they are. Not just students. They are MY KIDS- were so brave. They still trusted me and did exactly what l asked. I felt so helpless. 18 of my kids. And all I could do was ask them to listen to me and to hide. It was the worst 20 minutes of my career. 18 kids.
Depending on me. Anna somewhere in the building unable to get to me, or me to her. No idea what's going on. More yelling, banging on doors. Finally the door is opening and we're evacuated to the football field. Cops everywhere. Guns pointed at us as we leave.
And still they do exactly what I ask. My kids. Frantically looking for Anna until I have her with me. All 19 of my kids safe. My planning paid off. Planning I wish I had never had to actually execute.
Cops are, by and large, those who obviously peaked in high school yet are still given a job with high responsibility and zero consequences, so they just kinda do whatever they want to.
Yeah, one of the things they stress in active shooter training is that when you walk out you gotta have your hands up, DO NOT MAKE ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS, *DO NOT SCARE THE COPS* because there's a risk they'll shoot you. It's fucked.
Just saying- maybe having such easily-terrified, pants-wetting, yet constantly power-tripping assholes in charge of most of the country's security is a Bad Idea.
The "guy who's job is to be the guy with the gun" probably shouldn't be the most scared-shitless person in the room 100% of the time.
I'm so FUCKING sick of Republicans making excuses for why the GUNS need protection at all costs. Would like to line all them up for an hour with an AR pointed in their faces with a good chance it could fire at any time. Let them experience what they're putting kids through every day.
Not a shooting, but early in my career I was a long term since in a classroom when someone came into the school looking for one of our kids, and our room had to be barricaded. It happened so fast and the most heartbreaking part was the kids knew exactly what to do. This was 2010.
Sadly nearly none of those politicians would care. At least, not enough. Not more than the money they receive from gun lobby, and the votes they receive from 2A fanatics. The votes that keep them in power and able to further enrich themselves.
They also don't care because their constituents don't.
The largest voting block is the same demographic that refused to fight in Vietnam, but turned Rambo into a household name & have arsenals their WW2 vet fathers would be horrified by.
The same demographic that refuses to raise taxes for schools.
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No, no they couldn't. They very clearly are not armed, and a good portion of them couldn't even lift up a gun.
"School shooting are just a fact of life" is the Republican take. They will jail you for an abortion, but are OK with kids getting shot in school as a fact of American Life.
12 year olds should not have to consider these things.
But I’m an adult. It sucks that I find myself thinking of these things but at least I’m an adult. Kids shouldn’t have to be prepared for that shit!
Sick society
Our kids still have to drill for this, but it almost never happens.
There truly is a solution, and it doesn’t have to be this way at all.
My heart hurts.
This didn't used to be normal.
Anyone have time and fast transfer chops?
Appreciate everyone who works to do an ALT when they can!
Jennifer Carter
I lied. I lied to my kids today in second period. I told them it was just a drill. I told them to get behind my couches (thank GOD I ditched desks and have bulky furniture!) and be quiet - the more quiet we are the faster the drill will end.
The "guy who's job is to be the guy with the gun" probably shouldn't be the most scared-shitless person in the room 100% of the time.
I wrote about mine, here.
What the fuck?
The largest voting block is the same demographic that refused to fight in Vietnam, but turned Rambo into a household name & have arsenals their WW2 vet fathers would be horrified by.
The same demographic that refuses to raise taxes for schools.