#sandyhookpromise

[mszmaxbaby]

Remembering Sandy Hook 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[ptrsstory]

*U save everyone. - But who saves u? . #sandyhook #sandyhookpromise #quotes https://www.instagram.com/p/B3RvP9rAabA/?igshid=1xuw7pgw1ty3j

[ccarriganphotos]

So sad that 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade children have to sacrifice their lives to protect the right to bear arms. There are now more mass shootings in the US than days of the year. This Friday the governor of Texas where 16 children were gunned down today is scheduled to speak at the NRA National convention in Houston along with Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Maybe they need to admit it’s time to put the lives of young children ahead of the gun lobby. #guncontrolnow #vote #guncontrol #stopmassshootings #stopmassmurder #sandyhook #sandyhookpromise https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd9TxytsUWA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[iihih]

As always the Creative Arts Emmys are given put prior to the airing of The Emmys. See who took home awards for Outstanding Guest Appearances, Outstanding TV commercial, Outstanding Animated series, Outstanding Realty Competition, Outstanding Variety Show and more on our blog today (link in bio). . . #emmys #emmys2020 #creativeartsemmys #creativeartsemmywinners2020 #davechappelle #eddymurphy #mayarudolph #rupaul #cherryjones #rickandmorty #thelastdance #cheer #badeducationhbo #netflixemmys #hboemmys #roncephasjones #thedarkcrystalageofresistance #sandyhookpromise #besttv #congratulationsemmywinners #ifitshipitshere #whattowatch #tvworthwatching https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX6xfMAOc9/?igshid=1e1zna5v6980j

[thewinchestergirlblog]

Students were scared for their lives just because this guy brought an AR-15 to his former high school. How much longer are we going to ignore this? 17 people lost their lives due to a white, American male who is obviously mentally ill. More awareness needs to get out there right now to officially stop gun violence before it’s too late. Due to knowledge and understanding, this is the deadliest school shooting to occur in a US high school this year. It’s just as easy to buy a gun as it is to buy groceries and cigarettes. 90 people per day on average are shot by guns. It needs to stop immediately. #stopgunviolence #inforceguncontrol #shp #sandyhookpromise #follow #followme #like #comment #guncontrol

[mszmaxbaby]

NINE YEARS 💚 and always in our hearts.

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#SandyHook #SandyHookPromise #Newtown

[childgolden]

Back-To-School Essentials | Sandy Hook Promise

[sekerenews]

Sandy Hook Promise Darkly Flips Merry Back-to-School Ads in New PSA

Sandy Hook Promise, the Connecticut- based nonprofit whose goal is to prevent gun violence in school recently released another powerful ad. Its newest public service advertising campaign darkly flips merry back-to-school ads. This powerful campaign aims to try to stop school shootings in a year that’s already experienced 22 school shootings.

 Sandy Hook Promise Darkly Flips Merry Back-to-School Ads in New PSA

Sandy Hook Promise’s latest PSA is titled ‘Back-to-School Essentials’ and it was created with creative agency BBDO New York. The ad darkly flips merry back-to-school ads to highlight the anxiety and fear students face during a school shooting. The ad starts off like any other back-to-school ad with students showing off their new items. They show off items like backpacks and binders.  The spot slowly turns dark, as the students show how these back-to-school items help them survive a school shooting. We see a student use a gym sock as a tourniquet. We see another student use a skateboard to break a window to escape. The PSA aims to highlight the gruesome reality that students face during a school shooting. Sandy Hook Promise’s Back-to-School Essentials’ will the organization’s biggest campaign to date. The campaign is being launched with an integrated campaign featuring print, digital, radio, and out-of-home placements. https://youtu.be/b5ykNZl9mTQ

More on Sandy Hook Promise’s Back-to-School- Essential PSA

Nicole Hockley the co-founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise spoke about the campaign. Hockley lost her six-year-old son, Dylan in 2014. When speaking about the campaign, she stated that the theme and timing for the campaign were particularly chosen. She stated that it was done because parents don’t really understand the new normal. They don’t really understand active shooting drills, the violence that goes on in schools, that this violence is preventable. Lindsey Cash svp and senior director at BBDO New York spoke about the campaign. She stated that they are trying to tap into all the other back-to-school ads that are happy, kitschy, that try to sell back to school supplies and flip them on their head.  Cash stated that this is the new normal, the only back to school essential you need is to know the signs. She also explained that this year they want to make more of an impact.  They are trying to get people interested in channels, spaces and places that they never reached before. Read the full article

[nationalsave]

Social isolation can happen anywhere in your school. How will you meet someone new today? . . . Hope everyone has a great 2nd day of #StartWithHello week! #nonviolence #studentsagainstviolenceeverywhere #love #peace #sandyhookpromise #bethechange https://www.instagram.com/p/BoJlNynnGQW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bb5wyqwbrvr8

[macdaddy590]

#sandyhookpromise https://www.instagram.com/p/BsSRTdlA21-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ks90gwb5f8hy

[accessible-tumbling]

A long personal account of what a "Lock Down Drill" looks like in a kindergarten class.

Written by Twitter user @Readers4Pete

[ Link to original thread. ]

A long personal account of what a "Lock Down Drill" looks like in a kindergarten class. #GunControlNow

And this is what @PeteButtigieg means when he says: "We are teaching kids lock down drills before they learn to read."

I volunteered in my son's Kindergarten class yesterday. They were having a lock down drill.

The teacher calmly explained that it is like a fire drill and we are practicing to know what to do if there's a dangerous person in our neighborhood.

The veteran teacher's voice cracked. She was staying calm and very professional. But I could tell this was not easy for her.

She's probably about 60 and has been teaching for at least 30 years. This is new to her too.

The students all 5-6 year olds looked on with wide eyes. Some looked scared, others looked amused and some had blank stares.

I was tasked with closing all the blinds and the teacher was going to lock the doors. The kids were instructed to sit in an oval quietly on the floor.

They were then told that the principal will come and knock on the door but they are to ignore it and stay quiet. When the principal unlocks the door and tells them the drill is over they may get up.

Did I mention these were kindergarteners that were practicing writing the letter "R" just moment ago?

Most of them still can't pronounce "R" and say the "W" sound instead.

The call came in to start the drill.

I ran to close all the blinds, thinking why are there so many windows and so many damn blinds. If this were a real drill would I really be able to close all of these in time? If the parent volunteer weren't here would the teacher be able to?

The kids all followed instructions and sat in an oval in the middle of the room…the way they do when they play duck duck goose. And all I could think is, if this was real wouldn't they all be sitting ducks for a person with a gun?

I held my son tight.

A lot of kids now looked scared but they stayed quiet. I was seated directly in front of the door…why does the door have such a big gap underneath?

Why is there glass on the door?

I need to remember to breathe.

My daughter who is 7 is down the hall and I can't help her. If this were real, would I run to her?

Stay with the 5 year old?

Would my 7 year old survive this?

Who's comforting her?

I held my son tight as I tried to hold back tears.

Knock…

The knock came and the kids all kept quiet.

The principal opened the door and ended my nightmare.

But it hasn't ended. These kids went through this ordeal to protect someone's idea of freedom to carry a weapon and use it at will. I thought, when Pete says we're teaching kids lock down drills before they learn how to read…This is exactly what it looks like.

It's no longer theoretical for me. It was real and I will never forget the helplessness.

Moment later the kids went back to their tasks and building blocks. As I tried to breathe and keep it together until I got home and cried in my husband's arms for the horror we have created.

#SandyHookPromise

[thewinchestergirlblog]

You have got to be kidding me! My mom just got a pop up message saying that there have been several fatalities and the shooter is in custody. And all this happened at 2pm ET. This needs to stop right now! #stopgunviolence #florida #sandyhookpromise #stp #follow #followme #like #comment #highschoolshooting

[scy-chicago]

Can We Talk About Back to School Essentials and the New Sandy Hook Promise PSA?

This week’s blog is written by Dion McGill, SCY Communications and Community Outreach Manager. Dion is the former Program Manager for the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.  Prior to that, Dion was a public school teacher, spending 2 years teaching middle and high school in Alaska, and 2 years in Chicago Public Schools. 

Disclaimer: ** Please note that this PSA contains graphic content related to school shootings that may be upsetting to some viewers. If you feel that this subject matter may be too difficult for you, you may choose not to watch this video. **

Every time that I sit down to write about gun violence, I take a deep breath...more like a long sigh.  Because I know that whatever I say, it will fall on ears (or eyes as you have it) in so many various ways. 

Not everyone will accept the message the same way.  

Additionally, gun violence as an epidemic in the United States is a vast topic.  It has so many facets, I could set out to write a book, and still surely not adequately touch every aspect of the topic.  

But I hope that we can all agree that the topic of this video is terrifying, tragic, and exceptionally sad. 

Now, if you’re not familiar with Sandy Hook Promise,

Sandy Hook Promise is a national non-profit organization founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.

Based in Newtown, Connecticut, our intent is to honor all victims of gun violence by turning our tragedy into a moment of transformation by providing programs and practices that protect children and prevent the senseless, tragic loss of life. Source: Sandy Hook Promise.org

I’ve heard this PSA referred to my multiple news outlets as “shocking,” and yes, I will admit that it can definitely be described that way.  However, I would also describe it as “honest.”  I think we have to grapple with the fact that this has become our reality.  This is what many children have faced, in many high profile instances here in the United States, at the hands of fellow classmates who were easily able to obtain weapons.  

I’ve had the opportunity to meet multiple survivors of school shootings, and this is very similar to what they describe; chaos and fear, not knowing where to turn, and hiding when and wherever possible, hoping that the assailant wouldn’t come their way.  

I have twin teenage daughters who live in Florida.  I can remember all too well the terror that shot across my mind when I received the first push notification of an active school shooter in a Florida school.  

Additionally, as a former teacher, I have done lockdown drills with my students. My time in the classroom was just before the full implementation of the A.L.I.C.E. (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) approach now espoused in classrooms, but there was something especially heart breaking about discussing with 14-year-old high school freshman how the smallest people in the room should hide in the cabinets and closets of the classroom, while the others would huddle in the back corner of the classroom, or under the desks as far away from the door as possible. 

“What are you going to be doing during the lockdown Mr. McGill?” “My job is to lock the door and cover the glass as best and fast I can, and to make sure that no one comes into this classroom.” “We’re lucky we have a veteran as a teacher.  Would you really take a bullet for us. Mr. M? “ :: long pause ::  Well, that’s my job. In the Army, we always do our job.”  

Yes, that was a real exchange between a student and I.  I can remember her name, and picture her face as I sit here now.  As a soldier, I was always taught that the job came first, duty, and you do your job, and I loved my students...every stinkin’ last one of them.  I wouldn’t have been able to look myself in the mirror if I allowed something to happen to them...if I failed at my job. 

But, I often would think of my coworkers.  20-somethings with bright lives in front of them, who always wanted to teach.  How can you place that burden on your average teacher?  And yes, I can recall conversations amongst staff in the building on the days of those drills, or when we’d get news of a school shooting elsewhere (I was a classroom teacher on December 14, 2012, the day of the Sandy Hook shooting). We would talk about how the drill went, and what our true role was if that should ever happen...to mitigate casualties as best as possible.  Weird to have to think about, right? 

And yet, we have to remind ourselves that these events are preventable. According to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, in March of 2019,

US firearm homicide rates were 25 times higher and overall homicide rates were 7.5 times higher than rates in the other high-income countries (2015).  92% of all women killed by guns and 97% of all children aged 0-4 killed by guns in high-income countries were US residents.  White firearm homicide victimization rates were 12 time higher than rates in other high-income countries.  Compared to these other countries, for US residents in high-gun states, firearm homicide victimization rates were 36 times higher and for US residents in low-gun states, firearm homicide victimization rates were 13.5 times higher.  The article, “Violent death rates  in the US compared to those in the other high-income countries, 2015” by Erin Grinshteyn and David Hemenway appears in Preventive Medicine 2019; 123:20-26

We have to remind ourselves that we can do better. 

In February of 2019, our friends at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health put out a paper, Policies to Reduce Gun Violence in Illinois: Research, Policy Analysis, and Recommendations. 

I suggest you read it.  

We are not powerless, and research is being done to find solutions to this problem.  

Which brings me to another point of this discussion.  

While the media has over the past few years spent a lot of time discussing, and this PSA does an amazing job of highlighting, the issue of school shootings in America....

...here in Chicago, gun violence looks very different, and this is something that 100% cannot get lost in the discussion. A colleague made an interesting point which I will do my best to paraphrase,

“The fear that school children all across America feel when they’re entering into their classrooms after hearing about the latest shooting, is the same fear that children across our city feel just walking from their front door to the bus stop, or from school home.”  

As a born and bred Chicagoan, I know that fear is palpable.  I’ve felt it myself, and I’ve seen it in my students.  As the Program Manager of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, I visited schools all over the state, and had pointed discussions with youth about their thoughts and feelings about gun violence. 

That fear is real, and it affects each and every youth who lives in a community where gun violence, and other types of violence, is a permanent fixture of the landscape. 

On September 25th, there is a really in Washington D.C. to demand action be taken to #EndGunViolence across our nation.  People from all over the country, Chicago included, will be converging to demand our legislators take action to decrease this epidemic.

I encourage you to check out the website endviolencetogether.com, and if possible, hop on one of the buses leaving Chicago to be a part of the event.  Sign up for a bus leaving out of Chicago, by completing and submitting this form HERE, or contacting St. Sabina directly.  

Also, call your legislators.  If they support common sense gun legislation, thank them.  If they don’t, or have been sitting on their actions, demand action now.  We can’t wait.  

I will leave you with this news segment I came across while doing some research.  The reactions of the news crew speaks volumes. 

[tanisjustice]

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[nationalsave]

#StartWithHello Week will take place from September 24-28! What is your chapter looking forward to the most? #startwithhello #studentsagainstviolenceeverywhere #savepromiseclub #save #kindness #sandyhookpromise https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn3nzIenQlQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rypj4ss1x2i4