Very level-headed little girl covered in blood with all her classmates shot dead moments before to go to the coat rack and take her coat with her ... (14 bodies, 14 coats).
I think I would have just run out screaming ... sometimes you just have to say hmmmm ...
People in a state of shock don’t behave predictably. Sometimes they panic, sometimes they are oddly calm or detached. They can even experience dissociative behavior, where they might be on “autopilot”, and not remember doing things afterwards.
Subconscious behaviour — the coatrack is probably on the way out the door and she had been well trained to grab her coat as she went out the door. And all wet and covered in blood she would have needed it.
On the other hand, people who are traumatized often go into a trance-like state, where they simply do the mundane things, especially when asked.
Anyway, she didn’t run out. She was found in the classroom by law enforcement. One of them probably asked her which coat was hers, and had her put it on because it was cold outside. And she probably just did what she was told.
on the other hand, maybe we really have so deadened our children to the reality of death that she wasn’t traumatized, that it was just like those video games she watched other people play. That would be truly sad.