Another Week, Another School Lockdown
Hell wasn’t built in a day, America
My daughter’s high school experienced another lockdown this week. This one was because of the presence of a gun.
As a parent, I received the text message they always send out:
They likely know my daughter and thousands of other students had already sent a text to their parents.
This is not the first time this year this has happened. And it happened many times last year. And this is not a school in a red state or a flyover state we Americans think are the gun states.
This is in Maryland.
When I worked in Michigan, there were multiple lockdowns in middle and high schools that my children attended. It was always the same, too: gun threats, guns, bomb threats, lockdown. Wait and see what happens.
There is a certain sick helplessness to it.
How much longer do our young children have to be subjected to the insane gun culture we have allowed to be created in this country and in our communities?
My daughter is pretty sick of it, and I am sure her friends and schoolmates are sick of it too. When I talk to her about it, I can tell she is not just sick of it; she has a certain contempt for older folks, such as persons of her…
