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In reply to the discussion: A Teacher's Perspective on the Shooting. [View all]proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)61. I hear ya. I've found myself counting people while standing in line waiting to get into a movie.
One time when we were at a busy restaurant, right after we had given our name and were looking for a place to wait, my friend asked how long it would be. I said well there are 12 people ahead of us, I counted them. Just an instinct I guess.
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I have a poster next to the wall that can cover the window in the door
Lifelong Protester
Dec 2012
#3
This is so wrong on so many levels, why the hell do teaching staff even need to worry about shit
teddy51
Dec 2012
#5
Sickly once you have to do it at school, you do it everywhere...every field trip, every bus trip
DonRedwood
Dec 2012
#24
The answer in this day and age is to have armed guards (2 per entrance, high powered automatic
teddy51
Dec 2012
#26
"It is more likely you and/or your students will be struck by lightning than killed by a
teddy51
Dec 2012
#34
I hear ya. I've found myself counting people while standing in line waiting to get into a movie.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#61
we truly live in a sick and twisted world when teachers have to PLAN for killers in their schools.
niyad
Dec 2012
#6
As a volunteer parent, that drill was the saddest thing I experienced during my kids' elementary
Neurotica
Dec 2012
#20
I thought I was crazy. The only person out there who did that sort of mental preparation for
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#19
Mine locks from the outside, key only. All teachers doors unlock with the same key
DonRedwood
Dec 2012
#63
I hear you Don. I'm a sub and in at least three different schools in any one week.
1monster
Dec 2012
#42
I hope this incident gives people second thoughts on the importance of teachers...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#49
Such trust is placed in us. You cannot imagine how having a whole classroom of such charges
DonRedwood
Dec 2012
#66
I was at lunch when my phone buzzed with a news alert of the shooting yesterday.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#59