'My number one priority is how are we going to keep our children safe?' Shaw said. Students and teachers use them as reading nooks or math and science study spaces. Shaw said the shelters have become an 'extension of the classroom' since they were installed. He added: 'I can get 35 students and two teachers in there and to safety in about 30 seconds.' Cue my stomach and that slightly nauseous feeling again. 'To me, the fact that it's bulletproof is the icing on my birthday cake.' 'It's the necessary evil in the culture we live in today,' Shaw said. But he is comforted knowing they can also give his kids a place to hide if someone breaks in with a machine gun. The shelters were installed to protect students from tornadoes, Shaw said.

The high school currently has a basement and two locker rooms. There are two larger units in the middle school, Shaw said, '(and) getting more is a goal,' he added during a Friday phone interview. Healdton Public Schools Superintendent Terry Shaw said there are now seven of the bulletproof storm shelters in his elementary school - the bulk of which were installed in 2014 and paid for via a bond issue. Its school district consists of three schools: one elementary, one middle and one high school. Healdton, Oklahoma, is a small town in the southern region of the state. But really? Is this what it's come to? One school district installed 7 shelters in 2014 Like most parents, I would do anything to keep my kids safe. 'After seeing these crisis events and saying 'somebody ought to do something,' we realized that we are 'somebody.' ' 'And then, only a few months later, the deadly EF5 Tornado that hit the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore Oklahoma. 'Like everyone else in America, we watched in horror the deadly shooting tragedy of the Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012,' the company's website says.

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