schools

[GMN]

Yesterday I went to pick my boys up from school for a denatal appointment, 2 different schools. At each school there were law enforcement officials standing outside the doors, safe gaurding from the recent school shootings. My younger son, told me they had a shooters drill at school that day, what to do if a shooter came in the classroom, have to admit, it kind of freaked me out. Good that its being done, yet I wonder what has happened to this crazy world. Use to be all we did in school is tornado or fire drills, I have to wonder if younger kids(my son is 7) really understand this stuff, or if it just scares them. I wonder if this shouldn't be a parent discussion, and not a school discussion, especially with younger children? What do you all think?

GMN

 

[Alice]

I went to school during the Cold War. We had tornado drills, fire drills, and nuclear bomb drills.

I really think that parents and schools need to work in tandem in regard to this. If the schools are having law enforcement around the schools, the parents need to be made aware of it. I don't think the schools need to ask the parents their permission to guard the schools, but they need to let the parents know that is what they are going to do.

The schools and parents need to come together and develop a plan...the school providing information on how they intend to protect the children, with parental input. The schools and parent's combined need to come up with a way to explain to the kids what is going on...what to be aware of...how to act and react should the situation, God forbid, arise. There has to be a combined effort here.

Alice

 

[peg4x4]

The kids need to know how to react-where to run-who to contact-who to tell if one classmate lets the "plan" slip.. If the passengers and crews on 9-11 had not been conditioned that a hijacking just went to Cuba,and the best thing was to cooperate,the end result would have been far different...As seen in the one that crashed..[/b][/u]

 

[GMN]

The situation was in fact a lockdown of all the schools in a 3 county district, due to 3 teenages from another county who made some threats, stole a car, had possible guns, said they might come to our county, so the superintendant made the choice to lockdown the schools, and police officers were dispatched to each school, just in case. A problem arose however because alot of the older kids have cell phones, they called their parents, and the parents got upset, because they knew nothing about it, and in turn, called the superintendant. I think a possible way this could have been avoided was to do an announcement over the radio, as they do in bad weather, etc... I think it is good that they teach the kids what to do, yet I think the schools should inform the parents as to what they are doing.

GMN

 

[peg4x4]

Yeah, the more info the better..

 

[Southerngal]

We had an incident at our local school a couple weeks back. Big fight with threat of retaliation made. I sent my child to school as she goes to high shool and the fight was at the middle school. I don t think anything more about it until I get to work and the rumor start flying about guns and knives be brought to school at middle and high school. I go get my child from school Just to be on the safe side. I question her about things and she tells me that if any one was going to bring a gun to shool it would be _________. After I hear this all I can think about is Columnbine so I call the school to inform them that ___________ my have gun. I get this whole I know this kid and he would nt do that . This is coming from the shool resource officer, that is a police officer not a rent a cop.....Well short of the story is this kid I called about did have gun at school. I am only thank ful that I had the forethought to get my child before anything could happen. AND I THANK GOD everyday that no one was hurt.

 

[Lammie]

At the school where I work, yesterday, two hispanic men came into the school and were just wandering around. The security officer was nowhere to be found. The vice principal came and got a male staff who works with me and they searched the building and could not find them. Then they both came walking through the lunchroom. They were escorted out of the building and searched. But they came back again, this time, at the practice field and then at the middle school. They ran off and crossed into the backyard of a staff member where his mother was staying, alone. She threatened them with her pit bulls. They cursed her and ran off.

They were not arrested, questioned or photographed. I think that the school and the town police force dropped the ball on that one.

 

[chrisy]

Good co-operation between Parents and School is needed every where now in this gun and knife crazed world. We have police outside of the three schools where I take my Wards to school everyday, because of knives and drugs, I don't know what this undissaplined world is coming to. As these kids are the adults of tomorrow, God help us is all I can say.