School Shootings are not something that's new. I'm sure that almost everyone has heard of a school shooting, or experienced a Lockdown drill in preparation for a shooting. These drills are nice, but they aren't adequately preparing us. 

Let me ask you this, what time of day did the Columbine Shooting happen?

Lunch time.

The time that we don't prepare students for! Just this year, my school, Taylorsville High, went on lockdown during a passing period! How did students react? Poorly! We didn't know where to go, what to do, or where to hide. Why? Because the current lockdown drills we have don't adequately prepare us for the reality of an active shooter! 

For years, our lockdowns have been in the same classroom, at the same time, every singe year. While that's somewhat effective for Elementary kids, it's not at all effective for Jr High and High School kids who have 4-9 classes a day!

This petition is to ask kindly of Granite School District, and to every school District in the State of Utah, to please, keep us safe. Prepare us. Don't let us die, because you didn't prepare us for situations that are becoming increasingly more common.

This petition is asking that in place of our normal lockdown drills, we have drills during lunch, during passing periods, before school, after school, and for elementary kids, during recess. Then, to make sure students are still safe and prepared in classrooms, every teacher would be required to clearly state where students hide in the event of a lockdown in that specific room.

This system would not only ensure the safety of current students, but also ensure the safety of the future students who come through these schools as gun violence in schools becomes increasingly more common.