More than 4.1 million students endured at least one
lockdown in the 2017-2018 school year alone, according to a first-of-its-kind
analysis by The Washington Post that included a review of 20,000 news stories
and data from school districts in 31 of the country’s largest cities.
The number of students affected eclipsed the populations of
Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware and Vermont combined. But the total figure is
likely much higher because many school districts — including in Detroit and
Chicago — do not track them and hundreds never make the news, particularly when
they happen at urban schools attended primarily by children of color.
Still, on a typical day last school year, at least 16
campuses locked down, with nine related to gun violence or the threat of it.
The Post’s final tally of lockdowns exceeded 6,200.
The sudden order to hunker down can overwhelm students, who
have wept and soiled themselves, written farewell messages to family members
and wills
explaining what should be done with their bicycles and PlayStations.
The terror can feel especially acute right after school shootings like the one
in Parkland, Fla., when kids are inundated with details from massacres that
have taken the lives of students just like them.
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