Sophomore Sage Scott first heard about a potential shooting threat at the end of fourth hour from one of her classmates. At first, she brushed it off. Maybe it’s made up. But then her sixth-hour teacher locked the classroom door. She couldn’t help but think about the 620 mass shootings that have happened so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. She didn’t want to be part of one herself. “I have really bad anxiety,” Scott said. “You see stuff like this on the news all the time. I was really anxious, so I texted my mom. My mom [said], ‘I’m coming to get you right now.’ I think I cried the whole way home.” Scott is one of at least 700 students who got called out of school on Nov. 30 due to the potential shooting threat, according to attendance clerks Jody Gustafson and D’Ann Woodward. Most of Scott’s sixth hour class was there at the beginning of the class period. When she left 15 minutes later, one-third of the students had left. To read more of this story, clic...