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The first book to offer a comprehensive examination of lockdown drills in K–12 schools, Lockdown Drills balances research findings with practical applications and implications.
5-year-old son, and she's sending him -- trying to prepare him to go back into the classroom. and here's how she prepares him. >> this is not a drill. everybody go into the corner and be really quiet and still. what do you do? >> get in the corner and be really quiet and still. >> now, show me how you use your bullet-proof backpack. is anybody in there? what do you do? >> i say, i'm here. >> absolutely not. you don't say a word. >> she's trying. and that's what -- that's a sign of the times. that is what our 5-year-olds have to think about now. >> it's just a complete loss of innocence that th...
University of new york at oswego and amanda knickerson, school psychology proffers for bullying at the university of buffalo. thank you for joining me this evening. this is such an important topic. i want to go to you first, jacqueline. you have a book that says when done right the lockdown drills lead to a number of positive outcomes. can you quickly explain for our audience the difference between a lockdown drill and an active shooter drill? >> absolutely. and thank you for having us. a lockdown drill is a drill that's practiced for any danger inside of a building. that can include an active...
>> they are, and i think that there's confusion about lockdown drills versus some of these other kinds of drills. as jacqueline said, lockdown drills are -- can be for a variety of different dangerous situations. and we teach people to lock the door, turn off the lights, get out of sight. and so it's not using sensorial techniques, not teaching people to fight back or having a lot of traumatizing kind of stimulation. so when done right we would argue that the benefits outweigh the risks. >> so what more do you believe, jacqueline, that schools need to do, for people to really understand the mo...
And it was on display. we should be -- we really need to learn from this because this could be -- >> yeah. they should know better. they should know that words have an impact, and this is potentially playing with fire. david, thank you so much, sir. we've got to leave it there. appreciate your time. >> thank you. coming up this hour, how the cdc is loosening covid restrictions and how that impacts kids who are returning to school. also coming up, debating the pros and cons of lockdown drills in schools and whether they really save lives. and it's been a year since the u.s. and nato allie...