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Tuesday morning activities at Great Bend High School included a lockdown drill, Assistant Principal Daryl Moore said. The drill was scheduled in advance with three officers from the Great Bend Police Department there to assist and to practice their own procedures.
Officials described the drill as a “soft lockdown” or a “lockdown continue-to-teach drill.”
“The purpose of the drill is to prepare for a situation when we would have a suspicious person or persons outside the building,” Moore said. “The outside doors are locked and monitored. Students are not allowed to pass between the PAC (Panther Activity Center) and the main building. Classrooms are locked but the teach