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Editor’s note: This story was updated at 2:20 p.m. to reflect that Beaufort County public schools conduct three active shooter drills per year, while South Carolina law requires two drills annually.
Teachers play dead during a lockdown drill. As school starts to get underway across the U.S. in the coming weeks, many students and teachers will undergo mass shooting drills.
The schools hold at least two lockdown drills per year, and use a "Text-a-Tip" hotline for students to report suspicious behavior. Each school has a "Safe Schools Ambassador," a student trained to work within their peer groups to prevent bullying, teasing, and violence on campuses. [5] Earlier in 2019, students at Saugus High School had ...
Rep. Jennifer Boylan was at her son's elementary school for a Valentine's Day party in 2013, shortly after the Sandy Hook mass shooting.During the festivities, the school held a lockdown drill ...
Orangeburg, South Carolina: 1 0 1: A 20-year-old student was killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder. [216] January 25, 2014 Los Angeles, California: 1 0 1: A man was killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting. [217] January 27, 2014 Carbondale ...
The shooting started before 1:45 p.m., when Osborne drove into a fence of Townville Elementary School in a black pickup truck, got out of the vehicle and began firing into the air near the school's playground with a .40-caliber pistol, repeatedly shouting, "I hate my life." [2] [3] He then jumped the fence and began firing at students. [4]
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Since the Columbine shooting in 1999 and the September 11, 2001 attacks, lockdown procedures in schools have been changing. Some schools direct teachers to continue with standard procedures while remaining quiet, while some recommend an active approach against threats. [17]