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Article: Lockdown drills helps schools train for trouble: Ohio, Michigan require safety plan.
- Article from:
- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2007
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Byline: Jennifer Feehan
Feb. 26--BOWLING GREEN -- With hushed excitement, 15 third graders sprung from their seats when they heard the principal announce that their school was having a lockdown drill. Math lessons forgotten, the youngsters hurried to the back wall of the classroom, dropped to the floor, and huddled together, sitting Indian-style. Their teacher quickly closed the curtains, covered the narrow window in the classroom door with construction paper, and locked the door before turning out the lights and joining the children on the floor. It was Kenwood Elementary's first lockdown drill, a procedure that is being repeated at schools all over Ohio ...