Students Traumatized by School Active Shooter Drills | New Amsterdam | MD TV

I’ve never had school shooting drills. And I’ve never been in one. But I cannot imagine what doing a shooting drill is like. I can’t imagine what a real shooting is like. It’s gotta be scary.

I’ve compassion for anyone who has to go through things like this.

Not an active shooter drill but a school near me where i have friends teaching went into lockdown the other day over a potential armed individual on school site. Was a false alarm and the police and school made it clear to parents. Still didnt stop over 60 parent's at the following break (recess to americans) going to the school / around the school helping kids over the gates, knocking on windows abusing and spitting at teacher's saying the school locked up their kids with a machete weilding maniac.

The school was closed the next few days and is doing staggered starts this week. Police and school fuming at the chaos caused.

Horrible to do that to a child.

Man, I actually cried during this. I mean, I’ve never had to do any full on drills with blood and blank shots, but even just doing the “turn off the lights and stand in the corner” ones make me uneasy. If I had a doctor come into my school and talk to us like he did (like real humans with real, lasting emotion) I would straight up bawl in the bleachers lmao.

I had to do a shooting drill last week and I still can’t get it off my mind when I’m in school, imagining what one of those drills would do to me is almost unthinkable.

My school would do something in between a lame lockdown drill and a realistic lockdown drill. They would tell the teachers that at some point during the day there would be a lockdown drill. That way the teachers wouldn’t panic. Then, when it was time for the drill to start, they would announce it without saying the word “drill.” After every door was locked, the lights but not power were cut, us kids would hide, and they had several people running up and down the halls rattling the door knobs and sometimes banging on the door. Eventually the drill would end but for us at the time we didn’t know it wasn’t a drill so it would terrify us, but nothing to the extent of giving us PTSD. I liked it because it wasn’t very real but at the same time injected enough realism to show what a true lockdown would be like

I took a class in highschool that told students about different careers in the hospital. The first day one of the men comes in and starts talking to us and drops from a heart attack. All these people come running in to work on him trying to get him back. Turns out it was a drill they were doing. But what they didn't know was that my dad died of a heart attack 6 months before. So needless to say they all had to calm a very freaked out 17 year old me out. I was not happy about what they did because there was no point to it.

Only in America, active shooter drill.

that's honestly not how he should talk to a child client (beginning)

When will schools figure out that drills like that will do nothing but traumatise people

She feel scare thst no one knew THAT SCHOOL MUST BE CLOSED FOR THIS

How is this woman not arrested???

I remembwr once when i was little, our school had an emergency actually happen. Some guy walked in and we all hid in our classrooms. Turns out it was just a parent looking for their kid, but they didn't check with the office first. Scary, but so thankful it turned out to be nothing serious.

We don’t involve our students in active shooter training. That could very easily traumatize a child

We had a lockdown drill in elementary school, but because it was in the middle of recess, half of us didn’t hear it and were freaking out. Mind you, this was the first emergency drill that I had ever experienced and could remember. I remember running into a nearby bathroom and literally climbing on top of the toilet so nobody could see my feet. Then a teacher came in and told us to go to the nearest classroom instead. I bolted out of there so fast, I bet you could see where my feet were when I started running out of the bathroom. I ran into the closest room and my teacher was in there with about 2 other teachers and about 40 other kids as we had pretty large classrooms at that school. I sat in front of the whiteboard next to her and started sobbing and shaking so hard she said she thought I was going to throw up. Little did I know, I was experiencing my first anxiety attack. My teacher tried to explain that it was a drill but I couldn’t hear anything over the sound of my own heart pounding and a ringing in my ears that wouldn’t stop. Now, almost 10 years later, when I heard my brother, who was in eighth grade at the time, had a real lockdown (there was a person in a onesie that covered their face on a scooter just standing outside of the school for about an hour and they had already been made aware of a gun threat on that specific day), I couldn’t stop thinking about it during school and got in trouble in one of my classes for zoning out. I was only 8 years old at that first drill, but it had a lasting impact that still affects me to this day.

All of this needless trauma from school shooter drills could be so easily prevented if the teachers and kids were made aware beforehand there would be shooter drills. Just a exercise at a random day/time to prepare an know what steps to take in that situation.

You know. Like a drill.

No schools do fire drills like this where they don’t inform the students or teachers etc beforehand or make it realistic to the point of giving them an actual fear response and trauma. So why do they do it for shooting drills? Why do these schools take it to such a dangerous extreme? It’s just baffling.

That's because the school system wants to coach kids into fearing guns, not the mentally unstable who use them. Public school truly is a cancer.

lol in what world was Xavier co-ed? Cmon, NBC 😂

Not me feeling slightly teary eyed by just watching this. I'm over 21, and I still remember doing a walkout at school after the FL shooting, we all stayed quiet every minute for every soul....

Honestly, the feelings about the situation never go away. Not completely anyway. I still every once in a while take a look at my surroundings and think up scenarios and practice drills in my head

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Traumatized by the school's active shooter drills? Are you kidding me? Talks about being soft.

Wow I feel old… the only school drills we had were fire and earthquake. Never been through an active shooter drill.

We had an active shooter drill and the school told no students it was a drill and I was in the corner of the room hyperventilating and now every time the thing goes off for announcements I look up at this button we have on the ceiling so we can see the color codes red means active shooter my teachers saw me hyperventilating and they didn’t comfort me but I went up to them afterwards and I told them it was just too real and they just told me to calm down and you’re fine but I’m still not fine

In my school we had a bomb threat. As guns are illegal in my country, and I live in a small town infested with large gangs. It was my second day at that school when we were all told to stay in our form rooms and had out bags searched. I was scared shitless. But it turned put to be true and we ended up going home early

In high school we had more active shooting drills than fire drills. That was almost 20 years ago. We need to do better because the problem didn't go anywhere.

Im so lucky to have gone to school in Scotland and all my family attend school here we never had to go through school shootings even after Dunblane. My niece and nephew now have to go through lockdown drills now due to the fact a parent threatened to blow up the school. NO kid should have to do through this schools should be a safe place for all

This reminds me of the Prom Promise assembly my school had where they faked a car crash and had some of our classmates as the victims. Blood everywhere, broken glass, one girl was placed as if she’d flown through the windshield, the driver stumbling around screaming “what did I do?!” It was traumatizing.

The principal should not be a principal at all.

I was traumatized by the video training we did for teachers earlier this year. It was alarming and we actually needed like de-escalation after watching it. To be very transparent they did offer a number and other ways to talk to district counselors if needed.

This kind of trauma can cause someone to have delayed reactions. This isn't preparation.

Whenever my school did these type of drills (they called them code black drills), they ALWAYS announced it at the start of the day and right before the drill began.

i bet some idiots out there genuinely believe doing this will make kids strong and aware instead of being innocent and weak or what not…. yes let’s get the kids ready with premature flight or fight mode🥰

I hate during lock down drills no one's quite there all laughing and talking like shut up what if it was real would u still be talking,

Even if it was just a drill, the school should have offered counseling for the kids. Budget cuts or not, they should have considered the effects it would have on these kids.

You know how fast a school would get sued if they did that irl?

Lawsuit

YEAH ID SAY THATS A REASON TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL

I live in Canada, I've never had such drills while in school and I can't imagine what that must feel like not knowing it's a drill... So sorry for the kids who were scared half to death by that experience.

ONLY IN AMERICA,

this is the reality of america. and it doesnt stop when you graduate. colleges, grocery stores, houses of worship, the street, businesses, nowhere is safe

This show was brilliant, portrayed the real time America really well. By the way, I was surprised by the actor, Iggy looks so much older than his actual age

when I was in school never had to worry about school shootings

I couldn’t imagine being in a country that actively has to run these drills

"Easy" ...asks them to stand up and go down in front of the whole school to admit they were scared. That's not easy...

On top of the psychological effects, what happens when students can't tell the difference between a drill and the real deal?

As a European if I went to the US and this happened I'd probably think it's real too😭

We had a drill when I was in 8th grade that was preceded by an announcement declaring the drill that my class couldn't hear over the music playing in the room. I can't speak for anyone else in that room but while I was afraid at the time I thankfully didn't develop any long term issues. I do distinctly remember our teacher crouching near the door with tears streaming down her face explaining that we needed to be ready to throw everything we could pick up if someone came through that door. I cannot imagine the horror of a realistic drill that no one knew about and involved actors.

This show feels very Canadian...

I’d get up and stand on the court just to feel included 😂

Active School Shooting is such a American thing.