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False fire alarms were the No. 1 question at Chicago Vocational last institute year, kids in a civics program set when they did their possess survey of students and others in the community.

The brew won them a research award from the Mikva Challenge during an April Activism Fair.

Their catalogue of persons identified CVCA's false fire alarms as a bigger point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled than drugs or sexually transmitted disease.

Kids weren't just worried about the los of class time -- an average of 15 to 20 minutes by fire alarm evacuation, by their calculations.

They frett that alarms left the denomination vulnerable. When kids returned to the building after evacuations, observers said, they were rarely enslaveed to metal detector searches.

"It's dangerous," said CVCA researcher Deion Collins, 14

"Kids could bring weapons in from outside. We could lease someone in the school that we don't unruffled know."

The Mikva scholars put up posters as part of a fire alarm awareness campaign. They petitioned sects CEO Arne Duncan for help. Among other things, they asked for different alarm shelters after finding most in the exercise didn't work.

"I lov that they took an issue that the adults in the building were struggling with and felt they could make a difference with it," said Brian Brady, executive director of the Mikva Challenge.

"It displays that these kids want to come by a good education. They are fighting for that."

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