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   The moment she heard the first pops of gunfire, the teacher knew   
   what she had to do: She needed to make sure that her classroom   
   door was locked.   
      
   But at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that seemingly   
   simple task would require her to take a life-threatening risk.   
      
   As most of her students crawled under their desks to take cover,   
   she made eye contact with one child she had always given the   
   same job during their lockdown drills, the teacher recalled in   
   an interview. Without speaking, the student followed her to the   
   classroom door.   
      
   “Do you remember what we do?” the teacher asked the boy, trying   
   to keep her voice calm.   
      
   The boy, with tears in his eyes, nodded and said, “Yes, ma’am.”   
      
   Then the teacher pulled the door open. Took a deep breath. And   
   stepped into the hall, praying that the shooter wouldn’t see her.   
      
   Moving toward gunfire was the only way she could be certain that   
   her students were safe, the teacher said. That’s because Robb   
   Elementary is among thousands of schools across the country   
   lacking a basic safety feature that experts have recommended for   
   decades: classroom doors that lock from the inside.   
      
   Despite billions of dollars that have been poured into hardening   
   schools nationally, 1 in 4 U.S. public schools lack classroom   
   doors that can be locked from the inside, according to a survey   
   conducted two years ago by the National Center on Education   
   Statistics, a federal research office.   
      
   The safety feature is missing in much of Texas: 36% of the   
   state’s schools said they did not have interior-locking doors in   
   the majority of their classrooms, according to a 2018 survey   
   commissioned by Gov. Greg Abbott. Outdated locks are especially   
   common in older school buildings that haven’t been renovated,   
   industry representatives said.   
      
   Built in the 1960s, Robb Elementary had classroom doors that   
   could only be locked and unlocked from the outside, according to   
   state authorities and the teacher. She spoke to NBC News on the   
   condition that she not be named, because she is not ready to   
   talk publicly about her experiences on May 24, when a gunman   
   opened fire inside a pair of conjoined classrooms, killing 19   
   children and two teachers.   
      
   The Robb Elementary teacher and her colleagues had been   
   instructed to keep their classroom doors closed and locked at   
   all times, using keys that they were required to carry with   
   them, she said. But that system created frequent opportunities   
   for mistakes: Each time she and her class returned from lunch or   
   from the bathroom, she said, she had to use her key to unlock   
   the door handle — and hope that she remembered to relock it   
   again before going back inside.   
      
   Once she was inside, the teacher said, there was no way to   
   confirm whether the exterior handle was locked.   
      
   To remove any doubt, she came up with a system for the lockdown   
   drills. Anytime an alarm sounded, she would step into the hall   
   and pull the classroom door shut, then test the exterior handle   
   to make sure it was locked and latching correctly. The student   
   she had deputized to follow her to the door would then let her   
   back inside.   
      
   But this time it wasn’t a drill, and she was terrified.   
      
   After exiting her class, the teacher quickly pulled the door   
   shut and wiggled the exterior handle, confirming it was locked.   
   As she waited for her student to let her back inside, she   
   recalled hearing more gunshots — and footsteps.   
      
   “I was in the hallway with him,” she said of the gunman.   
      
   Then, her student pulled the door open, just as they’d   
   practiced. She darted back into the classroom, pushed the door   
   closed and they joined the other students hiding on the floor.   
      
   Moments later, the gunman entered a classroom across the hall —   
   just steps away from where she’d been standing — and opened fire.   
      
   What's left out of school 'hardening'   
      
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