A Graduation Gift................for Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania students..............

[turbinetree]

Graduating eighth-graders received a unique parting gift from their Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, school this week: ballistic shields for their backpacks.

A company that makes the bulletproof inserts gave them to students during a ceremony Monday at St. Cornelius School Catholic School, outside Philadelphia. Faculty members also received the 10-by-12-inch inserts.

The 15 students turned the shields — which from a distance look like a thin laptop — around and around. Some scratched their heads.

Unequal Technologies, a "protective sportswear" company based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, says they resist many types of bullets, shotgun blasts, shrapnel and knives.

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2018/06/07/chadds-ford-8th-graders-get-bulletproof-shields-graduation-gift/680876002/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. No words.

[turbinetree]

2. When I read this in our local paper, I thought we never had to go through this.....................

when I was in a class room.....................never. This is really sad..................

[egold2604]

3. My son went there

Very afluent bedroom community of Dupont Executives.

[turbinetree]

4. Yepper, spot on

[marble falls]

5. Up-armoring students. Wonderfull. Justfuckingwunderful.