Missouri Teachers Responsible For Bomb Detection

Columbia Public Schools teachers become an unofficial bomb squad if someone threatens to blow up a school. If a bomb threat is made, the district's emergency response plan calls for teachers to sweep their classrooms for potential explosives and listen for "ticking" noises, according to internal instructions given anonymously to the Columbia Daily Tribune. If a suspicious item is located, teachers are instructed not to touch it and to report it immediately to building administration. Assistant Superintendent Lynn Barnett said those guidelines are supposed to be confidential, but she confirmed that during a bomb threat, ...

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