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Anxious U.S. teachers train for school shootings

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“ ... You lose instructional time having to practice all these drills, but I think it is important,” he added.

Karen Madden, an elementary school reading teacher, is also worried ...

“They can’t tie their shoes… and you have to say ‘by the way, you have to be trained in case of a shooter.’

There is something seriously wrong there.

Survival skills as professional development.

Sad!

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When a society has to go to this extreme because of fears from within, from its own people, there must be something fundamentally wrong with the culture.

And when the gun industry and its many powerful lobbyists and supporters threaten - "come and take it" - those who want a reasoned dialogue on the issue, you have even more evidence something is fundamentally wrong with the culture.

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... Sad!

Even sadder is that after I wrote my post, I clicked back to the main JT page and saw reports of the blood letting in Paris.

Now all the advocates are going to advocate anti-shooter lockdown practice all the more.

Sad!

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I have been a teacher in Japan for a long time. I am very happy in the classroom and can't imagine being in a culture where this kind of 'fear' could become a reality in any school across the United States. The last weapon training I got was when I was in the U.S. Army when I was just 18. With that thought in mind, I am very lucky to have taught for so many years without thinking about a possible school lockdown, barricading the classroom door or defending the classroom with a gun given to me by the school to do so. I feel blessed! And to the people of France - stay strong!

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I live in the U.S. and I can say that no schools in my area are doing this. (I'm in Massachusetts). My sister in law is in Texas and she doesn't know of any schools doing this and my in laws in New York haven't heard of this. My coworkers have children from elementary school up to college age and none of them have a fear of school shootings. My friend lives in Maine and he hasn't heard of schools doing this. To say that there is something fundamentally wrong with my culture based on what the media says is unfair. I've read articles about parents killing their children and adult children killing their parents in Japan. However, I would never assume that Japanese people as a whole are bad or that there is something faulty with their culture.

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Oh, America.

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