School Drill Research Paper

In today’s society we need to prepare children for the worst. Although sometimes people in today’s society take it to an extreme. Police officers in Troy Buchanan High School are acting as school shooters that move through a group of school faculty and officials. While certain students are playing victims pretending to be dead on the floor during an active shooter drill. Most children have adapted some form of the standard lockdown drill and are used to it, though some districts have gone further, with programs teaching kid’s self-defense, suggestions to train teachers with firearm, and full-blown drills. They don’t thinks that doing that is enough though. In Missouri, it’s not only a trend; it’s the law. In August 2013, the state legislature
This law goes into effect every year and twenty superintendents from across the state come to take notes. I think that this is extreme because it scares the kids even if they’ve done it multiple times. “I’ve done this like 10 times, and it gets me every time,” says Bargen, who agreed to do the drill as extra credit for drama class. “This one is even scarier because it’s on my home turf. It’s going to make me second-guess my school.” This person said they did it 10 times and were still scared. So once the drill starts, a student and her friend, camp out near the bathroom. Pretty soon, a group of student’s dash down the hallway shouting, just as an intense fire alarm goes off. Seeing the gunman up close they realize it was someone who was just giving the instructions. He “shoots” a student and then puts another student “hostage” as assured. The gunman starts shouting at students commending the faculty and students to open the doors. The hallways fill with energy and the smell of gunpowder. The floor is covered in bullet shells. After a few agonizing minutes, a few cops run down the hallway.” If this were a real situation would the cops have been too late? So the kids do need to know what to do. Especially the teachers need to know what