Active shooter drills, bulletproof backpacks ... This is the disturbing reality for teachers across the country.
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00:00The reality of being a teacher is making sure your door can quickly lock in case there's an active threat.
00:05This is a barracuda bar. It goes right over the door handle and sits on the door frame.
00:09It's having a window cover you can quickly pull down.
00:19Creating a plan for your students, but knowing there are so many, well, what if they came in this way?
00:24Or how can I hide 20 plus kids and keep them quiet when they're afraid? Heck,
00:27I'm afraid as I was never trained for this.
00:30So the front part, I have all the tourniquets inside of.
00:34Basic life-saving stuff in here. And then the front pocket, this is actually one of the plates that I have.
00:40This is bulletproof.
00:42So because this is slid under the door and these go on either side of the door frame,
00:58no one can open this door, even though there's no lock. And you can actually tighten the top
01:06by twisting this. I think I need to get faster at that,
01:10but even then I think it took me like 10 seconds. To be honest,
01:13I think just doing that gave me a little bit of anxiety.
01:15Have you ever had to ask yourself if you would die for your clients? I don't mean like metaphorically,
01:20I mean like literally take a bullet for them.
01:22Because that is a question that every teacher in the United States has had to think about at some point.
01:40We're going to start doing this thing, and it is to protect us, okay?
01:48So we all stay safe.
01:52What we're going to do is lock the door,
01:54we're going to turn the lights off, and we're going to move over to the corner.
01:57There's going to be a spot in the classroom that we go hide in, okay?
02:01We're not going to use it often, but whenever we do, you have to know it's important, okay?
02:06So that we all go home safe.
02:09It's really dark. I know it is, but remember we got to be really quiet during this time, okay? Okay.
02:14We're going to practice a couple times.
02:18What's wrong?
02:20I know baby, but we have to. And I know that it felt squished over there.
02:24If this wasn't a drill, and we were really in a lockdown,
02:28we can fit some friends in the cabinets over here. People need to be aware of how teachers feel during lockdowns.
02:34We're freaking terrified. It's a very real and scary part of being in education.
02:49Being a teacher and student is scary right now, and it doesn't have to be this way.
02:53Everyone is living in fear, and we are just asking that something get done about it. One option, after decades of
03:00mass shootings all over the country,
03:03spiraling to where it is now, let's arm all of the teachers. First of all,
03:07you can't even provide books and supplies for our kids, let alone firearms. Those teachers excited about carrying pew-pews,
03:14or new applicants excited at the prospect, are not necessarily
03:19the teachers you want teaching your kids. Our country, through our inaction and thoughts and prayers,
03:24left these kids to die, and it will continue to happen until we do something about it. These were fourth graders.
03:29It could have been me, and it could have been my kids.
03:32You