Lockdowns are for Safety
Lockdowns, shootings and bomb threats were unheard of during my youth - not in my neighborhood. It was such a foreign concept by yesterdays standards. Today it is the beginning of norm. We were living in West Valley. Jenna was in the fifth grade. I had been working on the scrapbook that I mention here . I find it ironic that I had come to a page to explain about how life was then, and what makes her life experiences different from my own when I received a computerized phone call from the school. The school was on lockdown and no one would be coming in or going in until whatever cause for lockdown was lifted. As it turned out, there had been two teenage girls in the area who had been going from residential door to door to steal what they could from houses that seem...