Dear Connor,
When I was in school, fire drills were the norm. But when you are older, you will remember fire drills along with something a bit scarier: lockdown drills. There was no such thing as lockdown drills, at least in my schools, when I was a kid, but there weren't deadly mass shootings every week, either, so they are sadly the new normal. You had your first lockdown drill at school today and listening to you describe it broke my heart. How your teachers quieted everyone down, how they locked the classroom door and turned off the lights, how you all had to huddle in the back of the classroom and stay silent because a bad guy was coming--just thinking about you in such a vulnerable position, even if it was just for practice, put a lump in my throat and the strongest of desires in my heart that your lockdown drills will always only ever be drills.
Love,
Mom
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