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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 31408" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>There are over 72 million children in our country. If schools were truly interested in saving lives, they'd all have suicide prevention programs </p><p></p><p>There are over 1,000 tornadoes per year in this country and that count doesn't include dangerous high wind storms that don't funnel. In our area of the country, it is nigh impossible to get through school without needing to take shelter from a tornado. This is a drill that is necessary because the chance of it being used is very high.</p><p></p><p>Regarding fires, the death rate is even lower than school shootings, but there are on average 5,500 fires at schools each year (most minor). Add in all the false alarms that a kid pulls (where for safety reasons they must evacuate and need to progress in an orderly fashion). So, statistically, yes we need to keep fire drills too.</p><p></p><p>I think we are all in agreement that disaster drills need to be practiced. We could continue to debate the "need" for lock down drills to "keep us safe from the bad man". But the facts are that this is an incredibly rare event.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 31408, member: 1169"] There are over 72 million children in our country. If schools were truly interested in saving lives, they'd all have suicide prevention programs There are over 1,000 tornadoes per year in this country and that count doesn't include dangerous high wind storms that don't funnel. In our area of the country, it is nigh impossible to get through school without needing to take shelter from a tornado. This is a drill that is necessary because the chance of it being used is very high. Regarding fires, the death rate is even lower than school shootings, but there are on average 5,500 fires at schools each year (most minor). Add in all the false alarms that a kid pulls (where for safety reasons they must evacuate and need to progress in an orderly fashion). So, statistically, yes we need to keep fire drills too. I think we are all in agreement that disaster drills need to be practiced. We could continue to debate the "need" for lock down drills to "keep us safe from the bad man". But the facts are that this is an incredibly rare event. [/QUOTE]
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