'Haunting' school shooter drills become the new normal in US schools

FULL STORY by Tom Dart: The GUARDIAN…..

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Versions of this ritual are now stitched into the fabric of the American educational system, from kindergarten to university. But teachers are starting to question it.

“The drills are hard emotionally for some kids. Certainly they’re difficult for me as a teacher. There’s a little piece of heartbreak in every drill,” Corey Thornblad, a history teacher in Virginia, told the Guardian.

“Every time something like this happens – Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Parkland – and then we do a drill you can see it in their faces,” she said of her students.