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Threats against schools can have an impact, even when they’re hoaxes

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A handful of Colorado schools have recently had to deal with security threats that turn out to be false. But those threats can still affect students' and teachers' mental and emotional health. We get perspective from Mo Kennedy, who leads the National Association of School Resources Officers, and Matthew Fulford, a teacher at East High School in Denver, who wrote an essay for Chalkbeat called, "Hoax threats are traumatizing my students."