The ever-growing normalcy of school lockdowns
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When a shooter is on the loose
While law enforcement personnel scoured San Bernardino, California, searching for shooters, young people across that city sheltered in place — in their schools. Lockdowns have become common practice for school children across the nation.
Former teacher and Youth Radio reporter Robyn Gee takes us inside of a lockdown drill back in 2013, a short while after the Newtown, Connecticut shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
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