• @slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I wonder why missing children on milk cartons was a thing and not a thing anymore.

    • @stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
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      155 months ago

      Logic won out, understanding that blasting kids with scary media constantly was impacting their mental health negatively. Almost like we also shouldn’t be doing things like freaking kids out with useless shooter drills too…

          • @Zangoose@lemmy.world
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            15 months ago

            I went to a high school on the larger side and one time some people 2 grades below me got into a fight. The next day one of them brought a gun to school. The security guards ended up catching him before anything happened but there was a solid hour where no one knew what the hell was going on and everyone was in full lockdown. The unfortunate reality is that those drills definitely save lives, even in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the US (which I guess is a pretty low bar).

            • @stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
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              15 months ago

              How did the active shooter drills for students help that? Tbh they may have helped cause the ideation.

              Lockdown drills possibly for staff I can maybe get on board with, but for students? The universal trauma is IMHO not worth the off chance that it helps in a (still extremely rare) active shooter scenario

              • @Zangoose@lemmy.world
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                15 months ago

                At least in my school the internal/external threat drills were normalized enough that they weren’t really traumatic. They were basically treated the same as fire drills. Looking back on it that fact is kind of messed up by itself.

                I could actually see that being a good argument for why they shouldn’t happen though since it might make people take the real thing less seriously if it ever happened.

    • WugmeisterOP
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      65 months ago

      It was a good idea, but it didn’t work well enough to be financially viable. Not to mention it scared children and their parents

      • @slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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        35 months ago

        Parents were also greyhounding their kids to their grandparents or something and hoped that it worked out. I mean there were some crazh shit parents did before.