A superintendent in California is standing by his decision to allow a janitor to wear a mask and carry a fake gun around an elementary school's campus during an active shooter drill as, he believes, it made the drill more 'realistic.'
A superintendent in California is standing by his decision to allow a janitor to wear a mask, carry a fake gun, and run around an elementary school's campus during an active shooter drill as, he believes, it made the drill more"realistic."
"I don’t think it was wrong. It was a drill. Because usually these drills become routine to students and we wanted to make sure this was realistic," Sandoval told CBS47."When it’s a real situation, it’s worse than that. The teachers and students need to know this is reality.”“I though this might not really be a drill, and what am I going to do," Cooper, who has been a teacher for 22 years, told the station. “I love these students and I don’t know what I can do.
“I had one boy, he was trying to be very quiet about it, but he was sobbing," Cooper said."You can imagine I was upset, and I’m a 48-year-old adult. But in the back of my mind, I didn’t know that it’s a drill.”
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