A Chadds Ford private school took a bold step into a strange new world on Monday morning when every member of its eighth-grade graduating class got a bulletproof panel for their backpacks. Twenty-five staff members at the school also got the Safe Shield, a patented product making its public debut.
Robert Vito, owner of Unequal Technologies, a company based in Glen Mills, handed out the 10-by-12-inch panels to the 15 students during a morning assembly at St. Cornelius School that was covered by two local television stations for its groundbreaking subject matter.
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