I am certain that you are suffering in sadness and shock, just like our teachers and staff. Our hearts break for the families and community of Newtown, Connecticut. I hope that you have spent your weekend holding dearly onto your family. Tomorrow morning, we will start the week at Paine Intermediate as we always do, with optimism, hope, determination, and passion for helping shape lives and the future. We have never allowed the evils of the world to stop us or to even slow us. We won’t begin now.
For the last several weeks, TCS schools have been updating our school safety plans. Tomorrow morning our school’s crisis management team will meet to review the plan and discuss ways we can provide the safest environment. A lock down drill is scheduled for the immediate future. All outside doors will be locked, certainly for the next week. That does pose challenges for teachers and students who utilize the modulars, but we will implement a plan that will optimize safety conditions. Teachers in the modulars will keep their modular doors locked at all times. These teachers will meet students inside and move as a whole group to their modular classrooms.
Trussville police already provide school resource officers for Hewitt-Trussville Middle and High schools, but will expand police coverage beginning Monday throughout the week. According to Lt. Jeff Bridges of the Trussville Police Department, there will be an officer at the Paine schools all day this upcoming week.
Beth Bruno
I have a child in a modular and I'm curious to what steps can be taken to enforce the safety of those children. Locking the doors is really not the answer when you could have a gunman shoot through them. I know we shouldn't live in fear but unfortunately our society has made us that way and we have to now take extreme measures to try our best and keep everyone safe and secure.
ReplyDeleteOne more suggestion...everyone has different opinions on what you should tell your children about what happened. For me I feel like we need to reassure them that they are safe and protected, but at the same time make them aware of what they can do to protect themselves in the event that something this tragic ever happens in our schools. It would be nice to see some kind of safety or self defense classes taught to our students to make sure they feel like they know what to do should a situation ever arise.
Interesting to see the same comment is hated with my daughters teacher today via email and I have yet to receive a response. I am hoping that this form of communication can guarantee me a valid response for the safety and concerns that I have for my child and ALL children and teachers that are unfortunate to be in a modular.
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