'It feels like as a whole, America doesn't care about our school children, which I don't even have words for how awful that is,' said one teacher in Jefferson County, home to Columbine High School.
Parents and teachers in a Colorado school district were surprised by some new additions to the list of necessary back-to-school supplies—including kitty litter, buckets and trash bags.
Lockdowns are increasingly becoming a fact of life in American schools, which have seen at least 22 shootings so far this year. "It's very sad that they have to live in fear," Stacy Weiland, the mother of a child at Evergreen Middle School,Schools in Jefferson County, Colorado are being issued buckets, kitty litter and hand sanitizer to turn into makeshift toilets during extended lockdowns.
But not all teachers are pleased with the innovation."We were doing [professional development], and it was like, 'Oh, get your buckets, and this is what your buckets are for,'" Jefferson County teacher Cassie Lopez told Chalkbeat."It was shocking. I was pretty upset afterward."
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