Mother breaks down after seeing 3-year-old daughter practicing lockdown drill

[The Straight Story]

At first, Stacey Feeley thought that her daughter was just being funny when she was standing on the toilet.

“I thought she was doing something cute,” the Michigan mother told CNN’s Rosemary Church in an interview.

But her mischievous 3-year-old was practicing a lockdown drill — hiding from a potential attacker, hoping to avoid the type of tragedy that she likely isn’t able to fully comprehend at such a young age.

And when Feeley realized what she was doing, she broke down.

video at link:

http://fox59.com/2016/06/21/mother-breaks-down-after-seeing-3-year-old-daughter-practicing-lockdown-drill/

[marble falls]

1. I remember when my six year old daughter came home sobbing because she got a "c"....

on a paper.

"What's wrong," I asked?
"I got a 'c' on my paper"
"That's OK, its going to happen"
"But now I won't be able to get into a good school."

The pressure and responsibility put onto our children is shameful.

She later graduate Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M and is an archeologist.

If she'd been practicing lock down drills, I would have lost it myself.

[Odin2005]

2. In our new globalized "Knowlege Economy" only "the best" are allowed a decent life.

Everyone else who can't get a top scholarship to Yale or MIT is fucked, which is why parents and kids nowadays feel under such insane pressure.

[marble falls]

3. I do not know what the answer is. Our stategy was to live in small towns and I still got the sobbing

six year old. We really wanted them to have a childhood before high school. We moved to outside of Chicago after elementry school in Nebraska, and then to a blue ribbon high school district in Austin. Its worked out well. But I will never forget the sobbing six year old.

We put no pressure on performance and encouraged our children to try everything, including circus school in Evanston, Il.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. And yet that's not what the poster said. Poster said kid got a mediocre grade and still did just

fine. Those who feel that 'pressure' you speak of are creating it. You are manufacturing a bit of it yourself.

[HuckleB]

7. Letter grades at age six?

[csziggy]

5. I wonder what kind of scars that will leave on children

I know I still carry psychic scars from doing "duck & cover" drills in case of nuclear attacks. Our family had practice runs on where to meet if an attack were imminent so we could drive to my grandmother's house and shelter in her half basement.

When I realized what the possible targets were I knew sheltering there was useless. The house was on a west facing slope above a lake, less than fifty miles from McDill AFB in Tampa. The basement and house had big windows that faced west.

Then I read "Alas, Babylon" which was set not too far from where we lived and decided that if there were an attack I'd rather die immediately.

I was eleven when I made that decision.

Children should not have to worry about dying.

[HuckleB]

6. I guess they do them in pre-school now, too. Ugh.

Yeah, they've done at least one every year since my kid started kindergarten, on top of the regular fire drills, and the annual earthquake drill. In first grade, and that was the same year that Newtown happened, the school went into lockdown, after someone left a box by the front steps.

After a couple of hours, the police found a few bars of soap in the box.

And we wonder why kids have so much anxiety these days.

[Dorian Gray]

11. Yep

My daughter has had to do them in her Pre-K classroom. And they've had drills where they go to a safe space in the neighborhood in case of attack, too. (We are in Brooklyn, and they head to a local synagogue that has a basement in case of some horrible attack.)

The world is such a scary place for us. (Luckily, my daughter hasn't seemed to internalize the meaning of these drills. Yet.) Though I think next school year, she'll start getting it.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. I hate those days

Lockdown drill day, the day I spend a lot of time saying, "My job is to keep you safe, you will be OK." Or words to that effect. Over and over and over. Hug after hug after hug.

They are just looking for anyone they can trust in this world and need constant reassurance.

[davidthegnome]

9. Beyond sad.

I don't really have the words to express my sadness and shame that it has gotten so ugly in this Country that even children are practicing lockdown drills.

A friend of mine, who teaches in Mass.. has told me stories about this sniper she knows, a man who is apparently offering to arm Teachers, legally or otherwise, to prevent school shootings. Most schools don't really have the level of security they would need for prevention. Apparently there is some kind of really desperate "worst case scenario" plan, that looks to me a bit like... "last stand". Basically, if someone went into the school intent on shooting many children and teachers - they could do it, with very, very little resistance.

She refused the gun, because she doesn't know to use one anyway, doesn't want to go to jail - and fears what would happen if one of the kids in her classroom (special education) got a-hold of it. She was tempted all the same though. I think I might have been too, if I was wondering what the hell I would do in a really bad neighborhood, at a desperately underfunded school... if there was an active shooter.

I don't really know what the right solution is. Gun control could help, maybe even help a lot... but there are just so damned many guns in this Country. Hell, I don't know. It's a sad damn time to be an American.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Much much worse than when my kindergarten had to practice atomic bomb drills

in the dark hallway of our school basement -- and we weren't told why.

[maxrandb]

12. OK, I'm jaded

but when I saw that this was from a Faux Station, and the child was standing on a toilet...I was thinking that it was a drill to protect her from a man dressed as a woman in the ladies restroom.

Oh well, watch this space and don't be surprised if my thought turns into a Right-Wing-Hate-Radio MEME.