Commentary: As a Los Angeles teacher, I want you to know what a school lockdown feels like
by Marisa Crabtree, Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2022
3 minutes
Two days after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, we had a 15-minute lockdown at the Los Angeles high school where I’m a teacher. A lockdown is when schoolchildren, their teachers and administrators have a dangerous threat at or near the school site. We close and lock all of our doors to the beautiful spring day outside and the jacaranda tree blooming purple; we shut our window blinds to the birds of paradise;
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