Today was inservice day at school, so after our meeting we were "free" to work in our rooms {thank GOD, since I still can't seem to get ahead of my workload...feeling a little breathing room after today, but it was more catch-up than get-ahead}.
While we were working, the Fine Men-in-Blue were doing their own training. Disturbing to the core of my being to have the reality of school violence brought into my day. The announcement by Mr. Brady, "The police are doing a training today so you may hear loud noises that may sound similar to gunshots." And then I hear laughter from the police in the cyber cafe {right outside my door}. I peek out and they say, "It may sound similar to gunshots because it will be gunshots."
Sure enough, they are practicing many different scenarios of a live shooter in the building. The sound of gunshots resounding through my place of employment. A place where innocent children are every single day. The fact that we need these men to know what they would do if...
There are no words to express that if.
And I come home to the news that there is one dead, a shooting victim, on the campus of Purdue University.
Pray.
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