I wonder if anxious parents of schoolchildren in the USA sit at home and

[Comatose Sphagetti]

"hope it doesn't happen to me and mine" the same way people in cities besieged by airstrikes hope the same thing.
The people undergoing airstrikes often have no recourse.
We do.
Lead, follow or get out of the way.

[Igel]

1. I don't.

It's crossed my mind that some kid might do that, but only in the last year since we've gotten kids who are adept at using social media to organize in the school in ways that can't be easily traced or stopped.

Not sure that it's a "my school" thing or not. I figure that this kind of technology goes viral real quick, and probably spread to our school.

Need cell phone jammers.

[GWC58]

3. Same here

When I sent my 12 year old off to school today, he walks, the thought came into my mind “will I see my son make it home today,” then it’s gone.

[mercuryblues]

2. Sometimes

I don't obsess over it. Yet when my kid's school went on lockdown a few weeks ago, I felt like I swallowed a rock until I got the robo call an hour later giving the all clear. The news said it was an attempted armed car-jacking in front of the school and the school locked down as a precaution. they only got 1 of the 4 suspects. This shit is insane.

My kid's school goes into lockdown a few times a year. If a gun is reported on campus, anything resembling a threat, armed robbery within a certain area. I am glad the district overreacts. But until I find out what is going on, I am scared as shit.