Shootings, Lockdowns, and ALICE: Training our Children to Die
In America, guns have more rights than our kids.
I read a story by the AP this morning about the recent shooting at Michigan State University. It was entitled “Michigan State students’ training kicked in during shooting,” and I recommend you read it because it is a fascinating and horrific look at one particular aspect of American culture.
The title point of the article is that the students at Michigan State University who experienced this mass shooting fell back on their training for such things. You see, ever since Columbine in 1999, more and more schools implemented mass shooting drills and training for their students. It is ubiquitous now, and many if not most schools in America have mass shooter drills.
In America, you see, we train our kindergarteners how to run and hide from men (and it is pretty much always men) who might break into their school with a gun and kill them. Kids who are five, six, and seven years old are taught how to face down their mortality and how to do their best to avoid the cold hand of death at the hands of an unhinged maniac.
Think about that for a minute. When parents send their six-year-olds to school, those six-year-olds are learning about mass shooters and how to protect themselves from said mass…
