In my schooldays it was duck-and-cover "A-Bomb" drills.

[MineralMan]

Now, it's lockdown drills.

I was scared by the drills at my grammar school. They told us all about the "A-bomb" and what it would do to us, and then made us dive under our desks, as if that would offer any real protection. I was a smart kid. I connected their description of the power of the bomb with the drill and realized that all diving under the desk would mean was that I'd be dead under the desk instead of dead sitting in it. It finally stopped scaring me, but it always seemed stupid.

So, we're still scaring the crap out of our schoolkids. Now, they get to worry about someone crashing through the door and spraying bullets everywhere. Kids see the aftermath on TV. They have drills to show them what to do if such a thing happens. The kids are smart, though. They understand that it won't matter. If the shooter comes through their classroom door, kids will die. They might die. So, they're scared of that happening. And to what end, really?

What if we could tell the kids that we've taken those guns away from bad people who might shoot them. We put the bombs away, more or less, and stopped having those futile duck-and-cover classroom drills. Let's put the guns away, too, and just get back to teaching kids about stuff that's useful, not about stuff that could kill them.

Let's stop scaring children about dying in their classrooms, shall we?

[SonofDonald]

1. I remember those days

And living with the thought of nuclear war all the time.

I also remember the feeling I had when we finally thought that mushroom cloud was no longer certain to appear over our heads.

I remember a very real sense of relief that we didn't face that end any longer, then September eleventh 2001 happened and that bad feeling started coming back although very slowly.

Dump the dumpf, punt the pootin and the insanity will hopefully go with them never to return.

This little man with a big stick shit doesn't belong in our world, it used to be governments, now it's mentally deranged individuals with power and ego issues, it's time to rid the world of this shit.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. We had those and tornado drills. We never had lock down drills.

[Maeve]

3. When you read about an eight year old scared her light-up shoes would give her away

In case of an active shooter in her school.....

[MineralMan]

5. Yikes! Kids shouldn't be scared of stuff like this.

Shame on us!

[Orsino]

4. We're still doing this to benefit arms manufacturers.

Their fake wars overseas aren't enough. They want to profit from domestic wars, too.