To Protect Children, Schools have to Normalize Gun Violence

Teachers don’t do this by choice, but necessity

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Whenever we have fire drills in school (and the Law says we must have them monthly) a student invariably asks me why we do it. It’s a reasonable question if you are ten years old. Ten year olds actually ask more reasonable questions than adults. Fire drills are loud, disruptive…