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The American nightmare: the US now run school shooting practice runs
Teachers' unions have condemned the now mandatory ‘active shooter’ drills that traumatise students, reports MARK GRUENBERG
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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IMAGINE a shaking, scared kindergartener or pre-schooler hiding in a closet or under her desk, hoping and praying the man with the gun won’t shoot her — and being scared of loud noises and similar phenomena for the rest of her life?
Real, right? Real all too often since the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado 20 years ago? Even more real since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School murders of 14 students and three teachers on Valentine’s Day, 2018, right?
Correct. Except in the cases we’re talking about, the kids are hiding during an “active shooter” lockdown drill and the gun-wielder is acting a role — although in one such elementary school drill in Monticello, Indiana, law enforcement officers lined teachers up and “shot” them with air gun pellets. The teachers, too, were traumatised.
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