US school building new classrooms with places to hide from mass shooters

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The $48m plan is a dark look at the future of gun violence in America

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"I don't know if this is the new normal, but it certainly gives cause of concern," Szymoniak said. Other features allow all doors to be locked from the front office and film applied to glass to keep it from shattering.Classrooms will be built with a"shadow zone" where a gunman peeking in could not see students cowering along a side wall, said Matt Slagle, an architect for the project and director of K-12 projects at the TowerPinkster design firm.

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Panic rooms with multiplication flash cards.

There are c.133000 schools in the US. Even at a 'peak' in 2018 of school shootings* (*any incident in which a gun is brandished, fired or bullet hits school property) there were 97 incidents. This caters for a 1-in-1370 chance of being involved in a *shooting.

In America we Never miss an opportunity to use tax dollars to pay some private contractors some big bucks to do something that won’t prevent a problem to begin with. What if the shooter knows exactly where these rooms are located? Sitting ducks.

Maybe not keep them locked in like trapped rats in the first place.

endemianado What about some regulations on guns? This is quite insane!

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