Texas revamps "active-shooter" drills at K-12 schools to minimize trauma

AUSTIN, Texas — After Britt Kelly's son participated in a lockdown drill two years ago in his Lamar, Texas, kindergarten class, he had nightmares and wet his bed. Now 8, he can sleep only with a light on.

In August, Mary Jackson's daughter, a kindergartner in Leander, asked her mom to put a "special lock" on her bedroom door to "keep bad adults out" in the wake of a separate lockdown drill.

Clay Giampaolo, a high school senior with special needs, said that after drills at his school in Plano, he goes to the special education room to "calm down."