Major Teachers Unions Call On Schools To Rethink Active Shooter Drills
One advocacy group is joining with the nation's largest education unions to call for schools to reassess the use of lockdown drills.
Two major teachers unions have called on schools to rethink lockdown drills — the active shooter training scenarios that some educators and psychologists say can traumatize children with little proof that they actually work.
The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, the country’s largest education unions, saying they do not recommend active shooter training for students. The unions put out the release jointly with the advocacy group Everytown for Gun
