![]() ![]() Nationally, many schools have been increasingly vigilant, even in cases that were apparently playful. In the year since a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., educators have grown especially sensitive about guns and potential threats, and there have been several high-profile disciplinary cases in the Washington region, including first- and second-graders who were suspended from school for pretending to shoot others with their fingers or, in one case, a breakfast pastry. But its talk of killing targets and stalking classmates comes at a time when many school systems have increased security, added police and locked buildings in the wake of the real-life horrors of school shootings. The student-organized game at Montgomery Blair High School involves no real violence, and supporters liken it to a complex game of tag. ![]() Four hundred students have been playing a game of Assassin in the hallways of Montgomery County’s largest high school this fall, an annual tradition of sorts that has largely fallen under the radar until now. ![]()
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