deflection is your strong suit. But back to the teacher that made a false call and hid her students???
Sigh. Let me try this just one more time...
From a CNN story that came out 22 hours from the time of my post, this is what happened:
Earlier in the day, the teacher had allegedly attempted to call the front office to get permission to take students outside but did not receive a response and believed the school seemed “eerily quiet,” the sheriff’s office said.
The teacher then decided to lead the students through the woods up to a nearby cafe – a decision which authorities say she made due to her taking a part in emergency management procedures.
“As they are walking through the woods, she has the children remove any brightly colored clothing or accessories and removes her own brightly colored shirt to avoid detection,” the sheriff’s office added.
According to
a statement from Frederick County Public Schools, the teacher believed “there was a concern for safety” and acted in what the district called the “avoid strategy,” which staff and students are trained to use when they believe there is an immediate threat to student safety.
Here is the link to the story (for verification purposes) :
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/us/maryland-teacher-false-report-stabbings-investigation/index.html
Due to the numerous school shootings, every school now conducts "Lock Down drills", in addition to receiving multiple trainings in what to do when a crazy person enters your building and tries to kill everyone they see. After all of the reports (still continuing to this day) concerning the massacre at Uvalde Elementary, and almost daily reports of mass killings somewhere in the media, Teachers are a bit on edge to put it mildly. We are
NOT trained for
combat. Until you have tried to explain to a group of 5-10 year olds, WHY you are showing them places to hide in their classroom, the reason that they must remain absolutely quiet, etc., OR have been a participant in a lockdown for something going on in the community (one of the ones that I was in lasted for 45 minutes due to an armed man fleeing from police 3 blocks away from the school), where you have to explain to a child WHY you cannot let them out of the classroom to go to the hallway bathroom even though they REALLY have to go, you have
absolutely NO IDEA of the amount of stress and anxiety that puts on those students and staff members. I can totally understand WHY, if you call the Office, and get no answer, and the school "seems eerily quiet", a person would come to the conclusion that something very bad has happened to people and it didn't involved gunfire. Schools are NEVER absolutely quiet! And there had been social media reports of a shooting at a high school in the county that day as well (later proven inaccurate, but the allegations/reports were still out there).
It is a very heavy responsibility to know that if something happens in your school, you are expected to place yourself in front of students to protect them up to and including your death during such an action. I don't know of any of my colleagues that would NOT have chosen to protect children under their care. In the last drill that I participated in, shortly after the Uvalde shootings, I told my 6th graders where they could hide, how to get around the last bookcase to make it to the back door, the importance of making absolutely NO sound, and also told them that anyone coming into our Library would have to go through me FIRST. I also reminded them that I am short and not as young as I used to be so they would need to move quickly to get to safety if I was unable to help them. My worry was always that I'd never get the chance to help them at all because as soon as I stepped out into the hallway (right by the main door) to lock the Library door (step#1 in the "What to do for an active shooter/threat" , I'd be one of the first people killed. It took 15 years and multiple school shootings all over the entire country to get the District to the point that they coughed up the funds to switch the locks on the door to the INSIDE of the classrooms so we'd at least have a fighting chance.
So, yes, I can totally understand this response, given the information above. BUT, at this point, none of us were there, and NONE of us know exactly what happened up there and why, and we may never know all of the details.
I have now "addressed" your post about that teacher. So, if you want to go off half-cocked about a first report from Media that did NOT have all or even a 50% portion of the facts concerning what happened, by all means feel free to continue in your ignorance and judgmental behavior. And with that said, I'm done discussing your post. I tried, but some folks just can't or don't want to be reached, and that's on them.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
