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Schools should heed calls to do lockdown drills without traumatizing kids instead of abolishing them

  • Written by Jaclyn Schildkraut, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, State University of New York Oswego
Do kids need to practice how to do this?Phil Mislinski/Getty Images

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, an advocacy group, has joined with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Educators Association, the nation’s two biggest teachers unions, to produce a report on lockdown drills in schools. The report calls for drastic...

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