Parkland Florida is about 4 hours from where I live. 17 people died from the shooting on Febuary 14,2018
People are blaming the gun not the shooter.
The sad thing is people are called for gun control and not blaming the shooter. The shooter was a student who was expelled from the school the year before. The 19 year old made the decision to go into that school and shoot people. He killed 17 people and injured more. The young man did the killing not the gun. The gun did not load it self. It did not aim it self and pull it's own trigger.
As a teacher how can you protect your students?
We all need to do a check in our classrooms to see where we can hide the children or get them out of the school.
We need to know which doors lock from inside the classroom and which ones don't. We need to have a procedure in place about what we should do in a event to protect our students. We need to have a safe place we can meet up with the rest of the teachers and students in case we are able to get out of the school. We need to do drills to practice what to do in case a event like this happens.
Talk to you students and explain the importance of what your doing and why.
Our students need to understand the importance of what your doing and why your doing it. Explain that it is a drill to try to keep them safe. The idea is if they are use to doing the drills it will be easier if the time ever comes that you might have to do it for real. If your lucky you and your students will never have to do it for real and only practice the drills. We as teachers need to do everything we possibly can to protect our student. By knowing what to do and how to do it is the best thing you can do for your students. And by teaching what to do and how to do it might help them in the future.