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The Hard Lessons of “Hardening” Schools
On a Thursday afternoon in 2023, about an hour before it was time to pick up my nine- and seven-year-old kids from their elementary school, I received a phone call with a prerecorded message from their principal. She spoke in an even tone: Everything was now okay, but the school had been placed on “secure status” earlier in the day, and she’d send more details shortly.My daughter would later tell me that she had spent about ten minutes huddled with friends behind the curtain onstage in the cafetorium. She said they’d never practiced for an emergency during their lunch period. Unsure of what was happening, the third graders catastrophized about armed gunmen roaming the halls. Parents and teachers can give kids all the assurances they…The post The Hard Lessons of “Hardening” Schools appeared first on Texas Monthly.