Leave them in your locker (or desk, if you're in elementary school), place them in your backpack, or leave them at home to use for homework.
"Massey's aggressive mining mission doesn't even consider the fact that they have completely surrounded an elementary school and placing young children in harms way," adds Webb, who has campaigned with area residents for a new school for years.
When Ryan was in elementary school, he was placed in a special classroom for the utterly unmanageable.
"I think there are a lot of people who work within the system who are confused by it," said Amy Rome, the principal of National Teachers Academy, a Chicago elementary school that was placed on probation this year for the first time.
There had been an officer involved shooting a couple of blocks from the elementary school, which was placed on lockdown.
IF it's spring, it's teacher selection season, when parents begin fretting about where their elementary school offspring will be placed next September.
"At first, it wasn't easy because I came with a military background, so discipline is a must, a big-thing for me," Almeida said, noting student behavior was an issue at the elementary school where he was placed.
In my own elementary school experience, I was placed in the lower track in first through fourth grade and I remember feeling stifled, knowing much more than the rest of the class and anticipating what the teacher was going to say before she said it.
The Air Force base, its Veterans Affairs hospital and three elementary schools were all placed on lockdown until 3 15 p.m.
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting took place in Newtown in 2012, went further in a tweet: "Don't treat this as a political misstep.
