Parents, are you concerned about your child's safety at school? With reports of guns still getting into schools and breaches in security protocols, it's important to take action. Don't wait for others to make changes for your child's safety. Be heard at school board meetings and reach out to your legislators. Remember, your child's safety is your issue to take control of. Let's work together to make schools safer for our children. #safety #activeshooter #trainingprogram
The only viable solution to saving lives is to stop the bullets. School safety and security have been very hot topics for many years. We have seen many initiatives and approved funding for “enhanced security” but often these are stand-alone items. Recently, a school district in Minnesota approved funding for security cameras. As such, I feel the need to address the elephant in the room. It’s not enough. It will fail. Let me ask you a very simple question. Can security cameras stop a bullet? If you replied with “No, but…” It’s not enough. We live in a very reactionary society. School safety and security measures are often revised out of reaction to the most recent event. As more events take place, officials change and alter the protocols and react to the last incident. Let me make one thing quite clear; no two active shooter events are the same. So why are we treating safety measures as such? If a shooter enters through a non-secured vestibule and the reaction is to install a secured vestibule, then what would stop the shooter from entering through a window or side door next time? It has been 25 years since the Columbine High School shooting, and we have yet to establish an all-encompassing, multi-layered solution. Singular enhancements will fail. Security cameras are fantastic for catching and recording incidents for evidence, but they do nothing to physically protect the students. Security film on glass helps slow an attacker but it does not stop bullets. As we’ve seen with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, security guards come with the possibility of human error or inaction. Individually, these solutions are not solutions. They will fail. The answer to providing safe refuge during an assault will not be singular enhancements but will require a multi-layered, multi-faceted solution that is in place, ready to deploy in seconds 24/7/365. The Shield Act, championed by MN rep Elliot Engen, is now part of legislation in almost a dozen states and follows a proven system that is installed and fully functional in multiple districts across the country. If we can identify troubled individuals, create bullet-resistant classrooms and secured entrances, add security technologies, add trained security officers, have strategic plans specific to that school, and ensure your staff is well trained and educated, then we will have systems that will have the best option for safety and security during an assault. When these systems are implemented in every school across the USA, only then will we stop seeing the loss of innocent lives in our educational facilities. The only viable solution to saving lives is to stop the bullets. Elliott Engen #safeschools #activeshooter #safety
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1yI can't believe it's been 25 years since Columbine. And sad to say there has been no real improvements since then🙏❤️🙏