Every teacher knows what happened in Minneapolis could happen to us Letters to the Editor

This morning, August 27, my school had a scheduled intruder drill. Our administrators do an incredibly thoughtful job of explaining to the students the many ways our school strives to keep everyone safe as well as the ways students can help in that endeavor (for example, to not prop doors, not open doors for visitors and tell an adult if they see or hear anything out of the ordinary). It is always quite sobering for me, now a 32-year veteran teacher, to gather in a dark locked room and huddle with kids as a drill.For a school of children in Minnesota today, though, it wasn't a drill. Children are dead after a killer shot through church windows during the school's opening Mass. I am sickened, and I hope you are, too. When will we address the issue of common sense gun reform? When will we re