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Schools should heed calls to do lockdown drills without traumatizing kids instead of abolishing them

Schools should heed calls to do lockdown drills without traumatizing kids instead of abolishing them

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, an advocacy group, has joined with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Educators Association, the nation’s two biggest teachers unions, to produce a report on lockdown drills in schools. The report calls for drastic changes in how these drills are conducted today. They say that drills shouldn’t be a surprise, […] … learn more→