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Yes, Gladys, it is sarcasm.

Someone could have a heart attack. And what if someone tries to fight with an actor playing a gunman?

Fake drills???? Also worked in schools 30 miles from Ground Zero. TERRORIST drills after 9/11. Hell, for that matter, we had NUKE drills when I was kid and had to hide under our desks.

You get very jaded after a while.

and pull the trigger?

when the armed gunman came onto school grounds. Before Sandy Hook. After that? We talked about the similarities. The entire school staff talked about ARMED teachers after Sandy Hook. Very few wanted that, including all of us working in that classroom with the Pre-K kids. Maybe because the 3 of us (2 Paras and one Teacher) were from NYC, Chicago, and Flint, Michigan. All of us had our own experiences with gun violence growing up from where we lived.

he was strutting the hallways personally- armed of course.

but are lower than weasel shit. IMO, of course.

Hope she wins

... and wins big. Who the eff would approve something that amounts to terrorizing people?

I went through one of these simulations a year ago. They are extremely realistic. We knew we were participating and it was still traumatic. A lot of the younger women teachers were in tears. One of them, whom I was close to, was pulled out of the group, made to kneel on the floor, and say her children's names before he "shot" her in the head. I doubt if she will ever get over it. I was nearby and was very shaken up by it. We had "de-briefing" afterwards, but it really wasn't enough. I can completely understand how the Oregon teacher could claim PTSD.

The article doesn't mention if students were present that day---- or did I miss it?

...makes them think it is a useful learning experience? It's terrorism, by any other name.

... likely means the teachers were not consulted. Are they even unionized?

All public school districts are unionized here. The administration designs the in-service training. Unions have no input (in our district at least).