by Lauren Marie Schmidt Morning in December, doors still locked, playground grass stiff and white  with ice, when the warning call from a neighboring school comes in:  Active Shooter. Kids are ushered off the bus, their harried breaths,  like small puffs of smoke, cloak their faces. Each one surrenders their backpacks, methodic as an assembly-line, … More 7:40AM Lockdown, 6th-12th