PRESS EDITORIAL: We are raising our children in trauma because our leaders have failed to control guns

By ABIGAIL SWETZ

Safety is a basic need, and students cannot learn if their basic needs are not met first. Safety is why we practiced active shooter drills in my middle school multiple times a year. We practiced because those drills were designed to prepare us and protect us. They were also traumatizing themselves for my students and for me—because we knew they weren’t enough to save us.

  Let me explain what an active shooter drill looks like, sounds like and feels like.