The Importance of Active Shooter Drills

Sally Kohn: Military training and trying to prep our bodies, if you will, prep their bodies so that things are not unpredictable. What is your thought about act of shooter drills? Do you feel like they're effective or more traumatizing? She says it would be very helpful when they do run active shooter drills for students after the drill in order to allow them time to process what has just happened.Kohn: I think children naturally know because they have not yet been socialized the way adults have to shove it all under,. Their systems know how to move through stress with a lot more ease.