90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students

Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by DoreenMichele on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:36PM (#16395898)

I am American and these were not a thing when I was growing up. We had natural disaster drills, like tornado drills. We did not have mass shooting drills.

I am 52. This is a more recent phenomenon.

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by jashper on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:46PM (#16396022)

26 from Massachusetts - only ever had lockdown + fire drills, never anything related to active shooters

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by SauciestGNU on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:33PM (#16397131)

I believe a lockdown drill is the same as a mass shooting drill, or at least that's how they were explained to me (I'm a few years older than you and from the Midwest but we had them too).

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by azernik on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:40PM (#16395949)

28. Also never had these - only fire and earthquake drills (yay California!).

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by DoreenMichele on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:42PM (#16395962)

Yeah, Fire Season was not a season I grew up with. But it's a season California has.

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