In fact, many of them started out just like many of you -- playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends.

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The other day, I was explaining to my third graders that we were going to practice a lockdown just in case a bear happened to be on the playground -- a real scenario for our Colorado school.

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