Just hours after a gunman killed 10 people at a Texas high school, two students 1,000 miles away worried about the safety of their usual seats in the school cafeteria. “It’s like the front lines of a war,” said Emily Rubinstein, a sophomore at a New York high school. That would be one of the best places to hide if someone started shooting at Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan. Bartlesville High School, an hour north of Tulsa, Okla., has regularly held safety drills and lockdowns since 2012, when a student was arrested for making a threat against the school. In Martinsburg, W.Va., Spring Mills High School held a “code red” lockdown this year without telling some teachers the event was just a drill, to make sure the staff was truly prepared.

Source: New York Times May 20, 2018 06:56 UTC