Active shooter drills became one of the most common school safety measures implemented nationwide in recent years, despite widespread fears that the procedures heighten anxiety, and evidence that school shooters, like the one in Parkland, Florida, use knowledge of the drills to their advantage. Teachers unions in February called for schools to not conduct active shooter drills with students. Now, new research adds data to those concerns.
A report released Thursday, obtained in advance by NBC News, found active shooter drills in schools correlated with a 42 percent increase in anxiety and stress and a 39 percent increase in depression among those in the school community, including students, teachers and parents, based on their social media posts.
I've been saying it for years. Having 10 kids get shot vs 15 kids get shot isn't going to make up for the anxiety and depression you're giving tens of millions of children - school shootings are so rare, that if you increase teen and young adult suicides even marginally, it can QUICKLY surpass school shootings by a mile.
I had to do a school shooter drill in college and it was pretty fucking weird and needless. It made going back into that room weird. You'd always think of someone bursting through the door and lighting you up. I can't imagine explaining to a fucking 6 year old that they need to learn how to make it slightly, slightly harder for someone to blow their fucking head off.
These drills are designed for school administration to jerk themselves off and pretend they've done something positive.
Plus I think some of them are conducted by veterans and cops who are hired for their "expertise" so it's also basically chud welfare.