A teacher I work with.....
Yesterday, at the high school where I sub, had what's called an emergency incident drill. We're to pull down the shades, lock the door, and all the students go to an area away from the door and windows and lay on the floor. Then, we go downstairs to the soccer field and the teachers ensure that all the students are accounted for.
I was with 10th graders who were awesome and everything went well.
One of the teachers (who's probably in her late 30's ....a Millennial) went over the procedure with me before hand. I've always thought she was pretty cool. She and I have a pleasant relationship. For lunch sometimes a few of the teachers go over to her room and chat.
When she was done explaining everything to me I said something like (sarcastically)...."Yep....best damn country in the world." She then proceeded to tell me that mass shootings happen all over the world and are as bad as what happens here but they're undocumented (and in essence covered up). I was stunned. All I could utter was the word, "interesting." I didn't want to get into where she gets her information or get into anything at all. I just thanked her for her help and left the room.
She's a white woman who was raised by two gay moms and two gay dads. Something else disturbing that has happened is I have friends of friends (who I've met on several occasions) who are also two gay moms. They have a son and daughter, 21 and 18. The 18 y.o. daughter, who just graduated high school, voted for 45 (I don't want to say his name and moving forward I'm going to refer to him as 45).
I've been trying to stay away from the election analysis', what went wrong, etc. It's too soon for me to deal with any of this. Having said that, I'm shocked about these two young women...