How does this have an educational benefit to the kids. Basically, yea, its terrorizing them. This wasn't even in the school itself so why would they practice something like this outside of it.
Drills are fine, but if its something as serious as an armed gunman trying to kill everyone, they should at least say its a drill.
This is 100% absurd. Anyone who knows 2% about child/teenager psychology would refute this proposal as soon as it was mentioned, and you bet your @ss that anyone who sues this school is bound to get some bucks, this is ridiculous.
I wonder what's next? Shall we stage a kidnapping of a 10 year old, cover its head, put him in a van, remove his kidney, do some sexual abuse and then ditch him in the desert? Wait for him to return home (after 2 years) and go "SURPRISE!!!! IT WAS A DRILL!!!" ...
The only drill I ever had in school was a fire situation. I must admit that If my country had a drill for "lockdown" or "armed subject randomly shooting people" I'd think about the society I live in
I sometimes get the feeling that Europe is so much safer than the US, do you feel safe? I mean, Americans, are you sometimes afraid of getting shot in a normal weekday out of nowhere?
On a side note, I was just reading my local area free newspaper about a story of a baby named Bubba Ludwig (American citizen, 10 months old) that already has a gun permit because it's grandfather gave a rifle to him that's supposed to be kept safe until the boy's 14th anniversary, when it will be given to him. I mean, 14 year old with a gun? isn't there something wrong with this image?