In the stacks?!?! Why not just leave them in the open, it would hardly make any difference. Unbelievable. I’m sorry you lost your position over what was clearly lunacy. 

You sound like a really good teacher who cares about kids.

Honestly, even if there WAS a “take off your pants” part of the drill, I don’t care who the fuck sees my underwear, if it’s gonna stop a gunman trying to kill my friends, I’ll get buck-ass naked in front of the whole school. Like, think about what’s ACTUALLY important here, y’know?

“If there’s a real intruder...we don’t then start saying, ‘You go to the boys’ room; you go the girls’ room,’ ” Kizner told the Free-Lance Star. “We would say, ‘Go to the nearest secured room.’ ”

Unless there’s a “take off your pants” step of this drill, I’m not even sure why this was even an issue in the first place. Like, just because it’s a locker room doesn’t mean anyone’s getting naked in there.

It's so that if an angry boy comes into a school to shoot it up because he was rejected that one time and he's angry at all the girls, he will know where all the girls are so that no stray bullets hurt the boys who are innocent of all wrong doing.

When I taught in public schools and had to do these drills, I was the kind of teacher checking the hallways at the start to pull any stragglers into my classroom for the lockdown. I once fit 15 high school students into a lighting and sound booth at the back of the theater when I was on hall duty. I brought students…

I agree, it seems odd. Given that trans people are striving to be viewed as humans, “Whoever” would be more appropriate (since “Whichever” implies a “that” instead of a “who”). I’ve seen “All Gender Restroom” signs that make the point much better than this.

The sign is intentionally eye-catching to make a political statement. It is both telling people where to find the toilet and telling trans people that they are in a safe, welcoming place. So in the sense that shitty, hateful people would find it alienating, yes, it is more divisive than something anodyne and…

Why was there a debate? Why is her gender an issue when you as teachers are simply trying to keep children away from a shooter?! You run for cover and get the kids into a protected space, ALL the KIDS, regardless of gender! That’s just basic, rule no. 1.

Some parts of America have already beat you to it. If each state were its own country, (hell they want to be sovern states so they should almost be counted as such) there are a few that would not qualify as first world.

Why is it so important to segregate students by gender in an active shooter event in the first goddamned place? 

Seems America never tires of fucking over Native Americans. I’m surprised Republicans don’t send them gifts of disease-filled blankets as a bonus.

TWENTY SEVEN DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. TWENTY. SEVEN.

Soon anyone who is not right wing will have their votes suppressed. When we reach that point I think we will start to see violence and rioting in the streets. America is on a fast track to becoming a third world dictatorship. The republicans are bleeding America dry.

While that day is certainly coming, many young Jewish people are taking on the mantle of sharing their grandparents’ stories - I work at a university, and one of our students made an outstanding documentary about her grandfather’s experiences (she went with him to the place where he hid as a boy).

My husbands gransfather survived the concentration camps. His entire family was killed and he escaped because he was a cunning young man who spoke German and was blonde hair/blue eyes. His story is fascinating and important. He is now an old man with dementia so my husband has been recording his stories and video…

I’m so terrified of the day that the last survivor passes away and the Holocaust is entirely an event in memories. We’re already struggling against revisionist history and bonkers antisemitism, even with survivors left to tell their stories. 

Thank you for this article. The individual stories of Holocaust survivors are fascinating, and so varied in their sorrows and triumphs. Women like Sonia awe me with their strength and courage.

I believe there are people over the age of 12 who don’t know how difficult childbirth is. Just a few years ago, a state representative from Idaho named Vito Barbieri asked if it was possible for a woman to swallow a camera for a gynecological exam. There are also men who actually believe that women can “hold”…