My morning today started with a school lockdown drill while my team was
auditioning third graders at a New York City public school. When the alarm sounded,
someone quickly informed us this was essentially a drill for a school
shooter. When I was a kid, we had tornado drills and fire drills, but
never school shooter drills. The kids calmly explained to us that we had to
turn off the lights, lock the door, and hide out of view from windows
and doors so it would "look to any shooter like the room is empty."
While hiding, the kids were giggling and whispering excitedly, delighting in shushing each other so no intruder in the hallway could hear them. We
visiting adults looked at each other wide-eyed with amazement at how
nonchalant the kids were about a drill for something so horrific.
Just life as a child in 2017.
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