Put to the Test

At 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2003, a distraught 16-year-old student pulls out a 9mm handgun during his science class at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Wash., shoots a hole in the wall, and demands that the teacher and students leave the room. “It was the lunch hour and the school was packed with more than 2,000 students eating lunch in the hallways — a tradition at this school,” says Joseph Madsen, director of safety and risk management for Spokane Public Schools. “Normally, chaos would break out at this point.” Instead, the school successfully evacuated every ...

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