You can read the article here;
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/principal-suspended-over-terrifying-school-safety-drill-103129486827.html
This is the first I'd heard of this, for the most part. I've seen a bit about it in passing on the news, but I hadn't read the story on it.
I honestly can't even remember lockdown or even actual school lockdown procedure (which we went through a LOT in high school, long story) ever really being anything like that; officers would search the school, sure, but most of the time we just evacuated the building so the officers could perform their full search. (We had a lot of prank-call in bomb threats)We'd just sit in the grass and listen to music or talk for about 3-4 hours if it was real.
If it was a drill, like someone was in the school or something, we'd just lock up the place and sit in the back of the class. Never took long.
I definitely agree it was overboard to bring in armed officers with weapons drawn, especially since those kids had no idea what was going on. So I agree with something being done here. What about you guys? How do you feel about the whole situation, and what were (or are) your lockdown drills at your schools like?