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The next generation of school shooters grew up doing active-shooter drills — and know how to get around them, experts say
Sophia Ankel Mon, June 20, 2022 at 4:49 AM
Active-shooter drills are a common safety protocol for most schools across the US.
But experts say the drills are ineffective and traumatize students in the process.
Most shooters are so young, they'd done the training themselves and know how to get around them, the experts said.
The next generation of school shooters are so young they grew up doing active-shooter drills — and therefore know how to get around them, experts told Insider.
These drills, which are currently implemented in around 95% of America's public schools, are meant to prepare staff and students in the event of an armed intruder or active shooter on campus.
They range from training students and staff to barricade classroom doors and hide in the corner, to high-intensity simulations with actors pretending to be gunmen and shooting at teachers with plastic pellets.
But experts told Insider that the drills are ineffective because most school shooters are either former or current students who are already aware of the schools' safety protocols.
"They already know how the drills work, and they know exactly what students are going to do in this situation," Peren Tiemann, an activist for Students Demand Action, told Insider. "We don't need repetitive traumatic training in order to tell us to lock our classroom doors and stay inside."
Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher who survived the February 24 Uvalde school shooting told "Good Morning America" that active-shooter training set the children up "like ducks."
"It all happened too fast," said Reyes, who witnessed the deaths of 11 of his students. "Training, no training, all kinds of training — nothing gets you ready for this."
'Information from the inside'
According to a 2020 report by the US Government Accountability Office, more than half of school shootings in the country were committed by current or former students of those schools. At least 70% of school shootings since 1999 had been perpetrated by people under 18, The Washington Post reported after the Uvalde attack.
The next generation of school shooters grew up doing active-shooter drills — and know how to get around them, experts say
Sophia Ankel Mon, June 20, 2022 at 4:49 AM
Active-shooter drills are a common safety protocol for most schools across the US.
But experts say the drills are ineffective and traumatize students in the process.
Most shooters are so young, they'd done the training themselves and know how to get around them, the experts said.
The next generation of school shooters are so young they grew up doing active-shooter drills — and therefore know how to get around them, experts told Insider.
These drills, which are currently implemented in around 95% of America's public schools, are meant to prepare staff and students in the event of an armed intruder or active shooter on campus.
They range from training students and staff to barricade classroom doors and hide in the corner, to high-intensity simulations with actors pretending to be gunmen and shooting at teachers with plastic pellets.
But experts told Insider that the drills are ineffective because most school shooters are either former or current students who are already aware of the schools' safety protocols.
"They already know how the drills work, and they know exactly what students are going to do in this situation," Peren Tiemann, an activist for Students Demand Action, told Insider. "We don't need repetitive traumatic training in order to tell us to lock our classroom doors and stay inside."
Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher who survived the February 24 Uvalde school shooting told "Good Morning America" that active-shooter training set the children up "like ducks."
"It all happened too fast," said Reyes, who witnessed the deaths of 11 of his students. "Training, no training, all kinds of training — nothing gets you ready for this."
'Information from the inside'
According to a 2020 report by the US Government Accountability Office, more than half of school shootings in the country were committed by current or former students of those schools. At least 70% of school shootings since 1999 had been perpetrated by people under 18, The Washington Post reported after the Uvalde attack.
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