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Lollipops for Lockdown
Valentine's Day was supposed to be a day that we celebrate love. But instead our community was shattered due to the senseless shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. We watched the news stunned to see 17 innocent lives lost. We waited as parents desperately tried to find out if their children were alive. And we prayed that the gunman would be found and caught. We were not the first community to endure this tragic pain, but we hope to be the last. It is a sad reality that we live in a world now where our children, all over the United States, know the difference between Code Yellow and Code Red. Students regularly participate in lockdown drills and are adept at hiding in a bathroom, as quiet as a mouse- some are even younger than 5 years old. They can’t read but they know how pile into a broom closet. After processing what happened in Parkland just two weeks ago, listening to their students inspire our nation, and speaking to the father of an MSD student who was shot four times, I asked myself, "How can I help?" I felt their pain. I wondered, could our school be next? I knew it was time do something. When I was scrolling through Facebook after the tragic shooting, I read a blog post written by a teacher and how she gives her students lollipops during lockdown drills. I immediately nodded and thought about how I do the same, give our girls lollipops when we travel. It soothes them, helps their ears when we fly, and does keep them quiet for a bit while they enjoy the rare treat. As soon as I read that blog post I knew that's what I wanted to do -- get lollipops donated to every class in elementary schools across the country. And that’s why I decided to create Lollipops for Lockdown. I know that as parents we are nervous about the safety of our schools, and we hate that our babies have to endure lockdown drills and active shooter drills, but this is our current reality and Lollipops for Lockdown is something small we can do to make these simulations more bearable for students and faculty. Our goal is to get enough lollipops donated for every elementary school in Broward County, roughly 113,000. If we accomplish that then we'll begin collecting for middle schools, and if we surpass that, we'll move on to other counties in Florida and beyond. Let's give the teachers an easy way to soothe our children. Let's show our schools that we love and appreciate everything they do for our kids. And let's do something small that can ease and serve our community. Yes, we want a safer world; and yes, we want all the schools in the country to become more secure. But in the interim, we can all do our small part to keep our kids comforted during this tumultuous time. If you too would like to join the #LOLLIPOPSFORLOCKDOWN movement for your school, community, town, or county, please LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE. There you can download a letter that you can take to any business to ask for donations of lollipops. And if you would like to collect donations from parents at your school, first check with your principal or superintendent to see if parental donations are allowed. If they are, please use this printable to put on your donations boxes. You can also purchase lollipops from this WISH LIST and have them sent to my partner in Lollipops for Lockdown Susie Gilden. All lollipops that are collected by our initiative will be delivered to all the schools in our county by one of the principals, Erik Anderson. If you are a school and would like help securing lollipops in your town, please email me at kristenhewitttv@gmail.com. I am happy to help all schools begin this effort. I would love to see these sweet donations pour into schools all over America!
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