What Scares Me Most Is How Seriously My Students Take Lockdown Drills

Terrorism and gun violence are as much a part of their reality as Snapchat and Insta

Emily Kingsley
GEN
Published in
5 min readNov 15, 2019

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InIn the fall of 2010, I was in my first year of teaching middle school science, and I hated lockdown drills.

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Emily Kingsley
GEN
Writer for

Always polishing the flip side of the coin. Live updates from the middle class. e.kingsleywhalen@gmail.com. She/her.