I think after reading both threads I'm the only one that didn't love it.. I can be my own worse enemy with books though, it just didn't seem believable, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Just our school has no special measures policies, certainly no training, perhaps larger schools or comprehensives do. I couldn't understand why they didn't just ask governors questions, they mentioned them so it was a school with governors but Staff and pupil dismissal falls under governor remit so they could have gotten those answers quickly and surely sharing information they did with pupils and staff wasn't normal, I mean it did touch on that but it just seemed a bit unbelievable. Like the policy was to get children on life boats! That risk assessments for that would be bonkers. Children with thousands in their account buying assault rifles. Then they didn't just go on a killing spree when they knew they were out of time. Snow in south west England and everything carried on as usual? Generally we see a snow flake and panic, all shops sell out of milk and bread and schools close. But here it was was snowing heavily.
But yeah, I think I just got distracted by those types of things,which may well be in place and normal for some areas and people. Who knows. I'm clearly projecting my experience onto other areas and experiences. I do get distracted by things that shouldn't, the amount of times I shout at the TV "that's not a shockable rhythm" lol when seeing resuscitation.
I didn't see the twist, I felt sorry for the police man. I kind of expected there to be much more death. I did really appreciate the references to Shakespeare and the life story of Rafi, it was really touching and really amazing writing. I just didn't love it, I actually thought it was a really interesting concept and idea, school shoots in the UK today, I'm really interested to know if some schools, outside of London, have policies and training in place for these type of events.