A California teacher says school shootings are now so common that he’s been forced to store a “poop bucket” in his classroom so students can relieve themselves during a lockdown.
The educator — known online as Larry Lexicon — took to TikTok in the wake of Monday’s Nashville school shooting to share footage of himself explaining the function of the bright yellow bucket to his students.
“So it turns out people don’t know why we have these buckets in the classroom — t’s because of school shootings,” Lexicon said in the video, which has gone viral, clocking up more than 3 million views in 24 hours.
“I hate to just say it bluntly like that, but when I first started teaching, we didn’t have these buckets,” he continued. “Now every classroom has a bucket like this because we go into lockdown, and we’re locked in our classrooms for extended periods of times while the situation is dealt with.”
The educator revealed that he also stores an array of emergency supplies inside the receptacle, including toilet paper and blankets to “cover dead bodies.”
The students looked stunned by the revelation, with one girl seen covering her mouth as she gasped.
Lexicon posted the footage following Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. Three children and three staff members were killed by shooter Audrey “Aiden” Hale, 28, who opened fire with an assault-style weapon.
Police shared on Tuesday that the shooter had amassed an arsenal of seven weapons despite being under medical care for an “emotional disorder.”
Hale was shot dead at the scene by two police officers.
There were 51 school shootings in 2022 that resulted in injuries or deaths — the most in one year since Education Week began tracking such incidents three years ago. Prior to 2022, the highest number of school shootings with injuries or deaths was 35 in 2021. There were 10 in 2020, and 24 in both 2019 and 2018.
https://newzander.com/2023/03/30/teacher-reveals-poop-buckets-in-classrooms-after-shooting/
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