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School lockdown drills leave children confused and anxious

Parents worry that school lockdown drills cause emotional distress for kids, affecting their sense of safety.

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• My son's school did a lockdown drill this morning and when I picked him up he asked me, completely calm, which closet was the good hiding one in his classroom. He wasn't scared telling me. That's what got me. He just answered it like a logistics question, the same tone he'd use for where the extra pencils are kept. I used to think the drills were the overreaction. Now I'm not sure what the right…