The Education Ministry is advising schools not to practise violent offender drills with their students because they might cause fear and anxiety.
It also told them that teachers cannot stop parents taking their children from classrooms during emergency lockdowns, and they can take children to the toilet.
The ministry has published guidance and legal information that it has been developing since the Christchurch mosque murders in 2019 prompted a lockdown of the city's schools and early childhood centres.
Here's RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen.
