I have a box in my classroom that keeps my students and myself safe. You see, it has a tourniquet, a billy club, some gloves, and other items designed to help in the event of a shooter. This is cool and good and normal. I especially like that my fingerprint is required to open the box. But don’t worry, if someone accidentally lifts the cover to the fingerprint scanner it will call the police anyway. They’ll be at the school in under three minutes and know exactly which box was activated.

Yes, I like the box looming over my desk, installed over a weekend where my “You Are Loved” rainbow poster used to be. Its invitingly sharp corners remind me I’m safe. The harsh green LEDs, the kind my astigmatism can never resolve clearly, bathe the room in a calming wan glow. The seemingly random tests, the ones where the man’s voice barks in my left ear, let me and my students know all is well.

I love telling my students where we will go if someone wants to shoot us. I love explaining to them that running is our best option. I love the look in their eyes when they tell me they would hide under the tables and stab the shooter with scissors. I love reminding them that life isn’t a fucking video game.

I’m happy to have the box, this reminder of death in my classroom.

Keep hands visible

Love that we have to prepare children to not only possibly be murdered by their peers, but also by cops who have been conditioned to indiscriminately fire at everything that moves.

The "keep hands visible" is so fucked up. I wonder how many school shooter body counts are padded by twitchy cops?

America will sooner defund literature, arts and the humanities to divert money to teaching kids how to Zerg rush an armed shooter (this also counts as Phys Ed) before they enact gun control

Belongs in c/doomer ngl

This shit is just duck and cover but for school shootings. I have to do the drills with my students and I hate it

Average American high schooler probably sees more combat than average American soldier

when I still went to school my class had a can drive. No not for the hungry, but for when there was a shooter we had something heavy to throw at them.

Liberals Maoist third-worldists

“America is uniquely bad.”

eminent and imminent mean different things.

And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free

And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me

And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today

'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA

Freest country on earth babee

Keep hands visible but also keep out of sight

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