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1. A bit more - "Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure....
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:47 AM
Yesterday

Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered.

What are we doing to our children?

We are teaching them that violence is expected. That safety is conditional. That tomorrow is not guaranteed. And one day, when they look back on us—the generation that shrugged, rationalized, and moved on—they won’t ask why we were scared.

They’ll ask why we weren’t brave enough to stop it."

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