On Aug. 16, the second day of the school year, students in the Burrton district felt the shake of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake. They knew exactly what to do: hide under their desks until it stopped.
It was a fairly new procedure, as the district, which is halfway between Hutchinson and Wichita, hadn’t conducted its first drill until the end of the 2018-19 school year.
“They just adapted beautifully,” the district’s superintendent Joan Simoneau said. “We couldn’t have asked for a better crisis situation, especially on the second day of school.”
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