I endured my first genuine lockdown at school today. It was endless and terrifying. An hour of hiding while the police handled an armed intruder on campus—on the playground, not inside the school. I didn’t see the armed intruder, but I did watch cops with AR15s in the ready position jiggle the door handles to check if they were locked.
In the end everyone was safe & uninjured, but we all were shaken. Makes me secondguess my job choice. But the kids? They’re required to be here. My lesson this week was unintentionally a propos: how to self-regulate with box-breathing. #today#teaching#libraries
