Fighting Back Against an Active Shooter – You Have 3 Outs
By now most of you have probably heard of training programs that instruct students and teachers to fight back against an armed intruder by throwing books or chairs. Bringing a book to a gunfight sounds pretty crazy. But is it?
School Distirct Allows Teachers to Carry Weapons
In a move that garnered surprisingly little national attention a school district is allowing its’ teachers to carry guns; provided they possess a valid Concealed Carry Weapons permit.
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First Day of School
Last school-year not go quite as planned? What a great time for a fresh start! Just as many students use the new school year as clean slate, a great deal of school administrators can take advantage of this opportunity too. Especially in regards to school safety.
When it comes to school safety, security and emergency preparedness, leadership has to start at the top. Certainly a lone teacher can greatly impact the safety of his or her students, but a school principal can set the standard. Good or bad. Superintendents, to understand your impact, simply multiply this by the number of schools. If your school/district needs to improve in these areas, a new school year is the perfect time to start.
Get the Vote Out
On November 4th, millions of Americans will exercise their constitutional right to choose our next president. As this is a security post and not a political commentary, you may wonder how this is relevant to school safety. Simple, in order to accommodate this democratic process, thousands of schools open their doors and become polling places for millions of people.
Regulating access is a fundamental pillar of security, yet because county clerks do not want to take the time to identify polling places that are not full of children, schools become a softer and higher profile target in a single action.
A softer target because the general public is invited unregulated into the school, while school is in session. Certainly election officials were will closely regulate voting activity, but hundreds and possibly thousands of adults will enter these polling schools without being challenged.
School District Says “No” to Armed Guards
As colleges, universities, schools and districts get ready for the start of another school year; Iowa City School District made a major security-related decision. They decided not to do anything and keep School Resource Officers (SRO’s), armed guards or unarmed security of any kind out of their schools.
According to an article the District committee that made this recommendation was comprised of principals, teachers, students and parents. Seemingly absent from the committee was law enforcement and/or security professionals.
