As Part Of Lockdown Drill, School Fires Off Blanks In The Halls

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As Part Of Lockdown Drill, School Fires Off Blanks In TheHallsBy Annie-Rose Strasser on Jan 31, 2013at 5:30 pm Students at a high schoolin Illinois experienced a uniquely terrifying school shooting drill onWednesday. Instead of conducting a regular school lockdown, Cary-Grove HighSchool administrators simulated gunfire by shooting off blanks in the hallwayswhile students locked their classroom doors, pulled the curtains, and hid.The drill, understandably, upset some parents in the area, who received a letter ahead of time tellingthem what their children would be experiencing:The simulation will takeapproximately 15-20 minutes, during which time teachers will secure theirrooms, draw curtains, and keep their students from traveling throughout thebuilding. Please note that we will be firing blanks inthe hallway in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiaritywith the sound of gunfire. Our school resource officer andother members of the Cary Police Department will assist us in sweeping thebuilding to ensure that all students are in a secure location during the drill.At the conclusion of the drill, we will take some time to process what occurredand then we will return to our normal classroom routine.I encourage you to discussthe drill with your student both before it happens and after. These drills help our students and staff to be preparedshould a crisis occur, but it may cause some students to have an emotionalreaction.Schools and parents havegone to exceedingly extreme lengths, in the wake of the horrific killing of 20children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, to come up with waysto prepare for school gun violence. A school district in Texas is considering allowing teachers to carryconcealed weapons; parents have been purchasing bulletproof backpacks for their kids totake to school; the South Carolina legislature is even considering making a gun training class for high schoolers;and some parents even packed a gun for their sixth-grader tobring to class.