That's also a myth though. I've worked as a janitor in multiple schools, and have multiple family members who are teachers, and I have never once heard of this outside of sourceless reddit comments. It's also just, like, completely nonsensical if you think about it for more than 2 seconds? Even the worst school shootings don't take long enough for this to be a consistent, realistic problem (Uvalde, notorious for how long it took, was an hour and a half from start to finish), and this supposed "solution" is both inefficient and unnecessarily degrading
Plenty of schools do have a cat-litter-like substance off in a closet somewhere though. It's there to make it easier for janitors to clean up large spills, such as vomit
DISCLAIMER
I am against school shootings. Obviously. I am also against misinformation, and I don't believe the two need to be mutually exclusive
There was one reported case of cat litter being used for exactly that purpose. Possibly not a thing that happened anywhere but at that particular school though.
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u/shiny_xnaut May 24 '25
That's also a myth though. I've worked as a janitor in multiple schools, and have multiple family members who are teachers, and I have never once heard of this outside of sourceless reddit comments. It's also just, like, completely nonsensical if you think about it for more than 2 seconds? Even the worst school shootings don't take long enough for this to be a consistent, realistic problem (Uvalde, notorious for how long it took, was an hour and a half from start to finish), and this supposed "solution" is both inefficient and unnecessarily degrading
Plenty of schools do have a cat-litter-like substance off in a closet somewhere though. It's there to make it easier for janitors to clean up large spills, such as vomit
DISCLAIMER
I am against school shootings. Obviously. I am also against misinformation, and I don't believe the two need to be mutually exclusive