Schools Continue Holding Active-Shooter Drills As Students Learn Remotely

By Bill Galluccio
Dec 21, 2020
As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home. 
Dan Kois, a writer for 
"The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepare for the possibility that someone might try to shoot her, someday later, at her school."
Kois posted about the experience on a private Facebook group for parents and was shocked at the number of parents from across the country who reported similar experiences.

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