To Protect Children, Schools have to Normalize Gun Violence
<p>Whenever we have fire drills in school (and the Law says we must have them monthly) a student invariably asks me why we do it. It’s a reasonable question if you are ten years old. Ten year olds actually ask more reasonable questions than adults. Fire drills are loud, disruptive, half-chaotic. The teachers yell at the kids to stay silent, stay in line, stay calm, even though nothing is actually going on but that damned shrieking alarm.</p>
<p>So I explain that we practice for a possible event that might make us panic and do the wrong things and get hurt. Not stay calm. Not know where to go. Not leave the room.</p>
<p>But sometimes another kid will then ask, “But why do we practice if we never actually have fires?”</p>
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