You receive a call at your desk
from the SRO about 45 minutes prior to your school starting bell. Fugitives who
are considered armed and dangerous are believed to be hiding from police in the
neighborhood of your campus. (School has not started yet, but students and
teachers are beginning to enter the school).
How do you respond?
you, the SRO, and staff that is on campus, safey escort all students into classrooms as they arrive on campus You inact a shelter in place for everyone on campus.
ReplyDeleteSince the process of arrival has already started, I assume you have to keep going. I would ask the SRO to call for additional back up to surround the school as students arrive. I would establish one entrance and make sure all other entrances to the school are locked and remained closed to anyone entering the building. I would have students enter slowly so that you can make sure they are in fact students at the school. And then I would send them directly to their first period. Once arrival was over. I would implement a lock out (keep all doors to the outside locked, no leaving or entering the building).
ReplyDeleteAgree to making sure they are in fact students at the school. But what is the most efficient way to that? Check IDs?
DeleteGood point, KJ. The larger the campus, the more difficult this is, simply because no one person knows all the faces. ID check is a good process, but invariably, a pretty large chunk of students won't have their IDs with them.
DeleteShelter in place everyone on campus.
ReplyDeleteRobocall/Robotext the campus community.
Advise anyone who is not on campus to stay out of the area until further notice.
Start communicating with SRO/PD, superintendent, and media relations.
Agreed - I would also communicate with staff specifically at this point via email and give them the same directions - shelter in place if they are on campus, stay out of the area if they are not there yet.
DeleteI like this approach. But I don't know if I am worried about media relations right now--I'm thinking that is something they will already have heard about and I can give a statement (or have one made) later.
DeleteAgree
DeleteHey is there a difference between shelter in place and campus lockdown?
DeleteI agree totally with what Hannah just said.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what's been suggested so far. I'm torn on whether to notify the community via Twitter or email in case some haven't left their homes yet.
ReplyDeleteI would lean toward Twitter since it's generally a more "immediate" form of communications.
DeleteI would do what Amie said!
ReplyDeleteSince arrival has already started, you have to follow a plan like Hannah's. I like Amie's idea of send a message via the robotext to keep kids and staff away, if there's time. I also like the idea of one entrance/exit and having extra officers on duty to protect students.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
Delete1) I would consider this to be VERY important! I would very quickly notify the other admin, superintendent, and call for AISD police backup.
ReplyDelete2) Implement campus lockdown
3) Send a school messenger to all parents telling them to STAY INDOORS if they have not left their homes already.
4) Once AISD police arrive, I would have them to guard the one door to the school I would keep unlocked as students are arriving. Afterall, with the armed fugitives in the neighborhood, I would want the students inside ASAP!!!
How did you go about handling this emergency situation???
ReplyDeleteStationed adults at each entrance (we had about 15, just in the main building), and at auxiliary buildings as well. Made PA announcement and repeated it on 10-minute intervals due to time of day - announcing possible danger and for ALL to get quickly into the building and to the cafeteria (since we were still at least 30 minutes from first period). In today's environment I would have been robotexting, robocalling, FBing, and Tweeting, though none of those were available to us at that time in history. Once we got to first period, a quick accounting of who was/wasn't in their seats was important, so we could begin contacting parents/home to ensure safe keeping the the no-shows.
DeleteSounds like a strong response. My question would be how you handled bus and car traffic in a situation like this...
DeleteI like Amie and Hannah's suggestions.
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