Terror threat/ All schools to  have emergency response plans

In December, a group of militants entered a school and indiscriminately opened fire with automatic machine guns.

“One of my teachers was crying,” a student later recounted. “She was shot in the hand and she was crying in pain.”

“One terrorist then walked up to her and started shooting her until she stopped making any sound. All around me, my friends were lying injured and dead.”

For Americans, the Dec. 16 raid by Taliban insurgents against the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, was horrific, but distant. The incident, among the latest in a troubling rise of terror attacks worldwide, resonated little outside the South Asian nation. 

Classroom Terror: Too Horrible to Discuss, Too Pressing to Ignore