Campus Lockdown Appalls Parents - Los Angeles Times

Campus Lockdown Appalls Parents - Los Angeles Times:
"As students from neighboring secondary schools walked out of class recently to protest immigration legislation, one Inglewood elementary school imposed a lockdown so severe that some students were barred from using the restroom. Instead, they used buckets placed in classroom corners or behind teachers' desks."

Principal Angie Marquez, the article says, turned to the wrong chapter in the school district's emergency handbook and implemented the wrong set of procedures. According to Tim Brown, director of operations for the Inglewood Unified School District, told the LA Times, "When there's a nuclear attack, that's when the buckets are used."

Perhaps it isn't Mr. Brown's place to say so, but the incident makes me wonder what are the qualifications for elementary principles in Inglewood? Perhaps it never occured to anyone to ask candidates for such jobs if there were a difference in the way you protect primary school students from roving secondary school students and the procedures to protect students from nuclear attack.