'My son still has nightmares about him screaming and banging on the door, and that was just a drill.'
Then there were the insights from the people who are actually in the classrooms,“I’m a high school teacher and we had one the lockdown drills where they come and rattle the doors,” a Twitter user#EnoughIsEnough.
”: “What they don’t tell you is teachers are told in training that they have to lock out any of their students who are out of the classroom, *out of the classroom*. Even if they beg and bang on the door. Because there could be a shooter using them to access your classroom.”horrible fact prompted others to share their own stories about this particular gut-wrenching aspect of drills.recalled . “My son still has nightmares about him screaming and banging on the door, and that was just a drill. 4th grade. My son stopped going to the bathroom at school, afraid he would be locked out.” Active shooter drills are having a significant impact on the students, staff and parents who are going through them.Everytown for Gun Safety, stress and anxiety are highest among high school communities in the 90 days following drills. Middle school students, parents, and teachers experience “the greatest increase” in depression after drills. “I can tell you personally, just as an educator, we were not okay [after drills],” one K-12 teacher told Everytown. “We were in bathrooms crying, shaking, not sleeping for months. The consensus from my friends and peers is that we are not okay.”, clinical psychologist and an expert in how trauma, stress, culture, and digital technology impact the mind, told. “When push comes to shove, I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to try to train kids for their trauma,” she said. “…We are putting the responsibility for their safety on them arguably by saying that if an active shooter goes into their school it’s on them to get themselves to safety. It’s so, pardon my language, but f*cked up.”, Carr told us that there’s really no easy solution. “I think it’s really important for parents to engage their kids in conversation at whatever level the kid is capable of operating at, to just express a lot of curiosity and really listen to whatever the answer is and not make the answer wrong,” she said.
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