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A school in Indiana has been criticised for apparently shooting teachers "execution style" with pellets as part of an "active-shooter drill". The case has reignited conversations about the usefulness of drills and the methods used to prepare schools for shootings.
[...] Many experts agree that discussing and practising how to respond to a dangerous situation will help protect students who find themselves faced with the real thing. Fire drills, for example, are well established tools to teach children how to behave in a potentially life-threatening situation.
[...] While more realistic and stressful situations may be appropriate here, he says "large-scale, prolonged, realistic drills are not ideal" for children.
[...] "Children being asked to pose as victims on the floor covered in fake blood is just pointless and can be traumatising, I can't see why that's necessary."
Source: US school shootings: Have drills gone too far?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @02:50PM
Duck and cover [youtube.com] for the next generation of kids. In my day it was tornado and general disaster drills. The only thing was nuclear war did not occur during the duck and cover period, while tornadoes/disasters and school shootings do occur.
The only degree of realism necessary in such drills is that which is required to ensure correct action should an event actually occur. Simulating panic and chaos is not at all helpful, and detrimental, because you want people to act as calmly and rationally as possible. Training in calm and rational conditions actually prepares one to respond calmly when things are not. Let people be just active and nonbored enough to remember what to do.
In high school our theatre arts department got to participate in a disaster drill and the makeup techies did their best to simulate injuries on us. (And we were given index cards for the people to actually read). But this was at a hospital facing professionals who see a lot worse every day. Our makeup wasn't bad but everyone knew it wasn't real. (Unlike kids). I asked the person who triaged me, "Am I going to die???" in the best dramatic voice I could manage. "I don't know," replied the triager, "depends on how annoying you get..." Character broken immediately. :)
I'll bet any such drills will cause those kids to remember this era the same was as Duck and Cover did.
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