Students, teachers and parents were taken by surprise after an “active shooter drill” brought the Winter Haven middle school into lockdown as armed police officers burst into classrooms with their weapons drawn.
Students at Jewett Middle Academy said they were terrified when police officers burst in the doors for a planned active shooter drill – but students and teachers are irked they were not told ahead of time.
Seventh-grader Lauren Marionneaux told WTVT-TV that when the officers burst into her class with an AR-15, she was in fear for her life.
“We actually thought that someone was going to come in there and kill us,” the station quoted her as saying.
But police say they conduct these drills for the absolute safety of the students.
“These types of drills are vital in order to evaluate not only law enforcement response, but more importantly to educate the students and school officials in case an actual event were to occur,” Chief Charlie Bird said in an email to media.
Parents were notified of the drill through email after it was over, but many parents, however, received panicked texts from their children as the drill was going on.
This the America we live in today. The America the NRA and their paid for political allies have allowed to replace an America where school children feel safe inside their own classrooms.
After all a fearful populace is a populace that tends to vote conservative. A fearful populace is a populace that buys more guns. And a fearful populace is a populace that is easily manipulated by the media.
There is no logical reason to do this to these children, their teachers, and their parents. No logical reason unless you realize that safety is not the goal that is behind the drills.
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