That scenario with your daughters sounds horrifying. Hiding in a closet? Yikes.Frankie99 wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:57 pm JFV, I’ve picked my kids up once during an active shooter situation, although it was a gunman locked up right across the street in a house, so a little bit different. I walked right into the school (Montessori kindergarten/Pre school and small thankfully) grabbed both my girls and just booked it straight out of there.
They were hiding in the closet of one of the classrooms at 4PM. It was fucking eerie as shit, all the halls deserted, quiet, still. They were young, so while it was scary at the time it’s long forgotten - this was years ago.
This week my oldest started 7th grade at a new school, which is a huge change for her, and there are all kinds of policies about lockers and phones and backpacks, etc.
We’re about 4 hours north of Uvalde, and that shit is still fresh. She’s talked with us about it, and I have no advice. I just can’t imagine being 12 and worrying about this kind of thing. It’s brutal and tragic.
Regarding schools nowadays - the number of protocols in place to reduce or eliminate the ramifications of a shooting are just enormous. Literally every door in their high school is safety-rated with a locking mechanism that is activated upon alarm and prevents entry from the outside. I'm both happy that those protocols are in place and also sad that they are necessary. I imagine metal detectors are next for my daughters' school.
My wife and I were able to get my daughters to school this morning by trying to focus on the silver lining... they caught the kid and got the gun with no incident, and the school is going to be swarming with police today. Might be the safest day to ever go to school in Wauconda.