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By Bill Galluccio Dec 21, 2020 As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.  Dan Kois, a writer for  "The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepa...

By Bill Galluccio Dec 21, 2020 As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.  Dan Kois, a writer for  "The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepa...

By Bill Galluccio Dec 21, 2020 As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.  Dan Kois, a writer for  "The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepa...

By Bill Galluccio Dec 21, 2020 As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.  Dan Kois, a writer for  "The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepa...

How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality. Illustration by Hokyoung Kim It’s bad. This week marked a record in Covid-19-related deaths, and we are currently seeing an average of 209,864 Covid cases per day. Nearly 300,000 people in the United States have died since the beginning of the pandemic, with worse expected on the horizon. And yet these numbers no longer shock. In fact, Americans seem to have become habituated to them. Habituation is a behav...