Teaching students fear, through lockdowns

In Motherlode's Lockdown: Teaching Students to Hide from Guns, and Hide their Fears (NYT online, Apr. 8, 2013), we are reminded that the likelihood your child will be killed in a school shooting by a lunatic is 1 in 3,000,000, and most likely that lunatic might be another kid's parent. But we need to terrorize children with surprise drop-and-cover drills "just in case."