Thomas, whose company "builds ballistic, rapid-deployment housing units for the military warfighter in our forward operating bases around the world," said that he partnered with Honeywell, Advanced American Technologies (which does material composites research), and a company called Cornerstone, which is one of the leading constructors of prisons, detention centers, and locking and security hardware used in prisons and jails in the United States. "This is because they asked us to do this. "Those parents said 'Do not let our children perish’ and nothing happened," Thomas said. On the outside of the device were photos of children killed in Uvalde. Last year, he went to the International Police Chiefs Conference in Dallas, where he showed off a small model of the device. Thomas said he was inspired to make the device after the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: "My wife called me crying about this Uvalde situation and said, 'We have to do something to fix this and protect children when these things happen.'" "That's been a blessing that I didn't see coming," he added. So it's actually had the exact opposite effect of what you and I would have thought before we had them implemented." "They can go in there and do free reading, play little table games and things like that. She leaves hers deployed all the time and it is a reward system that she has put in her elementary class where, when the kids do good things, they get a good grade, they read all their stuff, they do all their homework, they get a little free time on Friday in the Calm Cottage," he said. "The teachers said the kids actually call it the 'Calm Zone,' and they actually call it the 'Calm Cottage' now. "When we put these in, we weren't really sure how the kids would receive them, how the teachers would receive them, and we just knew that we had to give them an opportunity to go home, right?," he said. "I'm with you 120 percent when you say that 'I cannot believe we even need this,'" he said.
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