'I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT ME' . UNSUSPECTING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TERRIFIED BY ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILL
Memo to Polk County Public Schools spokesman Jason Gearey: this drill was absolutely not about "safety": it was about a total, terrified submission to State authority, any time, anywhere, even though that submission may be hazardous to a student's mental or physical health.
And to the principal, not giving parents a heads-up before the drill, and perhaps choose for their child opt out?!? Pig-headedly, ham-fistedly stupid.
What if a kid in a classroom in this school had a tendency toward severe asthma, exacerbated by stress?!?!? As reported at yahoo.com"
For me, NO CHILD IS EXPENDABLE, as a result of a drill like this.
Were I a parent with a kid at that school, understanding that this had been done without consent, I would have pulled my kid out of that school so fast, the principal's head would be swirling, and either home-schooled, or privately educated my child somehow.
It has become painfully apparent that public schooling in this country equals the public bullying and surveilling of its children.
In many districts, the costs of security devices outweighs what a school district may be paying its teachers, and there is something thorougly and fundamentally wrong with that. ~Mike Rivero