[Harris]

Yes, and wouldn’t you want children to learn to react to a terrorist attack in the same calm manner as a fire drill. I use calm loosely here, because sometimes there’s an awful lot of giggling but that would be better than panic in the real thing.

I’m sure that not everything the teachers did was the optimal approach, but to assume in knee-jerk reaction that such drilling is inappropriate is simply wrong and ill-thought out.

[SoftballMominVA]

You are right, you wouldn’t want the children to react the same for each possible disaster. We went into ‘shelter in-place’ five years ago for over 2 hours when we had a tornado warning. For that, the kids go into interior rooms with no windows, the basement, the gym, or the cafeteria. The idea is to be away from windows and surrounded by the most protection. Unfortunately the tornado blew up from a thunderstorm with such little warning, it wasn’t safe for anyone to be on the roads. The tornado passed less than 100 yards by the school - we could see the damage when it ripped up the community tennis courts - the kids knew that time it was real from the noise outside. Lots of kids lost their houses. Incredibly scary, no giggling that time.

[mvpel]

I’m sure that not everything the teachers did was the optimal approach, but to assume in knee-jerk reaction that such drilling is inappropriate is simply wrong and ill-thought out.

I didn't say that such drilling is inappropriate. I said that the way in which this "drill" was done was a crime, an assault committed by the teachers against the students, under Tennessee law.

If they're going to conduct such "drills" they need to take that provision of the law into account when they plan them. This is another data-point in my theory that most liberals are a bunch of highly-educated morons.