The increased number of school shootings really has me concerned about safety and it's hard not to think about it during the workday. I love my job but I also can't sustain the anxiety forever. Does anyone else worry about this and if so, how do you calm your nerves?

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We’ve had three credible gun threats this year. I do worry about it and I am very stressed. This job is quickly becoming traumatic.

We had a kid make it all the way to school with the gun in their backpack.

It is taking my love of teaching away, having to worry about my safety. It erodes our morale and it is not okay having to live in fear.

We just got one metal detector and the students have figured out how to let one another in through the exit in the gym. Second day having it and the kids already have work arounds.

I’m sick and tired of not getting to teach because I’m CONSTANTLY having to emotionally regulate 30 teenagers at a time. I’m tired of working at a job that doesn’t think of my safety, or that of the kids, as an actionable priority.

One metal detector isn’t enough. Telling teachers to use restorative practices and build relationships isn’t enough. It’s not always just people INSIDE our schools targeting us, although that does happen a lot. What are they doing to actually keep us safe?

I don’t want to die here. I am tired of being scared too. I totally get it.

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Increase the dialog with teachers/union rep and the school board to increase safety measures: all doors locked all the time, real police officer, fully armed and vested ready to go in without hesitation to any viable threat, metal detectors at the now one entrance to school, threat assessment team of staff and teachers, emergency response team, vary the practice drills from exiting for fire drill to total lockdown with silence of all elec devices… classroom doors locked at all times, etc

So you want schools to become prisons?

These things can be done and help reduce risks…. The rest we cannot do …
We can Ask students to say something if they see something like a knife, gun, or illegal drugs on campus and find a way to keep that student anonymous…to ensure his or her safety…

See something say something is great, but students don't.

Where is your data?

Bullet proof backpack…I got one

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Learn hoe to protect yourself. Take karate, self defense. Make your classroom a safe place. Move your students, desks, and activities away from doors and windows. Use your personal money of you have to but purchase items to make your room SAFE. Buy a block for door. It goes from the door knob to the floor, works like a chair, keeps someone on the outside from pushing the door open. Put film on the windows so outsiders cannot see in. Have an airport in the classroom incase you need to sound an alarm BUT most of all....

Talk to your students!!! Get to know them. Be there when they need someone. If you see a change tell someone. Tell their parents, tell their friends, tell your principal.

The worst thing you can do is NOTHING.

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