Trigger Warning: Tips and tricks for a successful school year
Make sure you eat a good breakfast
Sharpen your pencils before class starts
Keep track of your assignments in your planner
Eat plenty of fruits and veggies
Raise your hand if you need anything
You may use one quiet fidget at your desk
Inside voices
Take turns
Share
If you hear gunshots get under your desk
The leg of the time-out chair can be wedged into the door to jam it so the shooter can’t get in
Always run in a zig zag, practice this at recess
Play dead if the shooter enters your classroom
If a classmate is shot, use their blood to make it more realistic
Keep track of your math assignments, the more you fall behind, the harder it is to catch up
Run if you can
Hide if you have to
Fight if it is your only option
Make sure to write your name on all of your assignments
Stay very, very quiet
Come home alive
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This is a painfully perfect piece of work. The cadence, the structure, the message…the last line. Brilliant.
You nailed it! Our new school reality.
The way you flipped between the ordinary ans what should never be in an instant was very effective. Thank you for writing this.
Powerful, Amy!
Powerful movement from the beginning to the turn:
If you hear gunshots get under your desk
Done this with 2nd graders– terrifying
Yes:
Stay very, very quiet
Come home alive
Powerful.