France Prepares Children For Terror Attacks On Schools

France is set to deploy around 3,000 reserve troops to provide security to schools along with ramping up anti-terror drills. Education and security ministers announced that anti-terror drills to prepare students for potential terrorist attacks will include mock attacks   Children as young as two will also be be taught how to survive a terror attack in kindergarten The French Education Minister said  the threats were real but the new plans were “not about ceding to panic or paranoia” RT reports: Around 12 million French students are preparing to head back to school on September 1, but the government is also making plans of its own. Those plans are aimed at protecting pupils and preparing them for possible attacks on their schools. All students aged 13-14 will be adding basic life-saving measures to their portfolio of skills, in case they need to provide assistance to classmates in a worse-case scenario. Right now, only 30 percent of students are trained, Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said in a Wednesday press conference, according to AP. Around 500 school administrators will also be trained each year at the national gendarme training center to manage crisis centers and act as liaisons with security officials. Vallaud-Belkacem [...]