Footage posted on social media showed
students cowering under desks in one classroom as gunshots rang out.
Police searching for Nikolas Cruz desperately needed to know where he was at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, as
students cowered behind locked doors.
Not exact matches
And when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «
cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and
students,» according to the complaint.
But here's what this data really means: Each year, nearly every
student at an American public school is trained to
cower under a desk or run for their lives to avoid being murdered by a gunman.
Teachers and
students had already begun
cowering in their rooms and were instructed not to let anyone in.
students construct widely disparate scenes — a pupil
cowering before a teacher's stick, for example, or a tree being cut down.
Teachers should never worry that they'll have to jump in front of a
student to save a life, and
students should never be forced to
cower under desks as bullets fly overhead.
But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine,
cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful
students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage.
This was 1973, the chair was his soapbox, and I, a
cowering student, was his only audience.
He hailed Stoneman Douglas
students who «volunteer for the front lines while elected officials
cower in the corner.»
I had visions of myself
cowering under a
student's desk and screaming so I took a deep breath, told the kids I would be right back, and ran into my co-worker's classroom telling her she had to switch rooms.