By Chinmay Kashyap

Every year, thousands of students across New Jersey take part in lockdown drills: lights off, doors locked, silence in the dark. For many, that silence isn’t calm — it’s fear pretending to be preparedness.

As a graduate of the Flemington-Raritan School District in Hunterdon County and now a high school sophomore, I remember those drills vividly. Today, my younger sibling walks the same FRSD hallways, practicing the same drills, still wondering if enough is being done to actually keep us safe.

More than a decade ago, on Dec. 14, 2012, tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Twenty children and six educators were killed in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. It was a wake-up call that safety must never be an afterthought or a b

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