JESSICA VALENTI

Active Shooter Drills Will Not Save Our Kids

With the new school year, we’re once again traumatizing a generation of children with a lesson that won’t work

Law enforcement and first responders from Cumberland and York Counties participate in a regional active shooter training at Deering High School led by the District II Training Council. Photo: Portland Press Herald/Getty Image

My nine-year-old daughter will start fourth grade in a few weeks — another year of reading, playing, and, a few times over the course of the year…