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VA: Can we lock down guns instead of schools?
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A few teachers and I just spent more than a half hour cooped up in a dark room with a bunch of students. Shushing the kids, keeping them quiet. What kind of class was this, you might reasonably wonder. A dark room? Silence? (Can elucidation—to have something ‘made light’—even take place in darkness?) What exactly was transpiring in this room devoid of students questioning or teachers explaining—a room where, except for the occasional giggle or sigh of impatience, everyone was deadly silent?
It was a lockdown drill. |
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Millwright66
(3/21/2015)
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Sounds like a "failure to communicate" to me. Don't know about y'all but I had to deal with "Duck and Cover" drills as a school-age youngster. And for far less logical reasons ! Kids are adaptable if presented with reasons why they're doing what's asked of them. If there's any "failure" in this concept it lies with the school administrations and teachers.
Childhood is dangerous. Children have an innate drive to explore their world. Parents need to learn/accept their children learn more by "doing" than by "seeing" or "reading". Doing provides direct tactile feedback and stimuli well-suited to short attention spans. Caring parents need to encourage exploration, but strive to forsee and advert its more lethal consequences. |
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