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ERIC ED494843: Lessons Learned from School Crises and Emergencies. ...
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This issue of "Lessons Learned" addresses "Dealing with
Weapons on Campus." Each year, school administrators,
faculty and staff must deal with the possibility of
students planning and carrying out pranks such as toilet-
papering trees, egging automobiles or spray painting
school property. These high jinks often occur at the end
of the school year, when warmer days and the prospect of
summer vacation trigger student restlessness and apathy.
On the final day of classes at one middle school, a
seventh-grader had smuggled three rifles in a duffel bag
to hold the principal hostage for a ransom. An assistant
principal, while conducting a sweep of the school,
including the restrooms, spied the legs of a student
slipping into camouflage clothing while three rifles lay
in an open duffel bag on the floor of the closed stall.
Based on what he had observed in the restroom, the
assistant principal announced a schoolwide lockdown to
staff members. Emergency calls from the school that
morning had initiated a response protocol from district
police and school security staff. The incident at Delaney
Middle School points to the importance of emergency
management planning, training and practice with first
responders, community members, students, school and
district staff, and administrators throughout the year.
Collaboration is essential--no one agency can
successfully manage a school-based emergency alone.
Delaney's lessons learned regarding the handling of an
end-of-the-school-year emergency should assist schools
and school districts nationwide to set priorities,
allocate resources, establish protocols and determine
accountability criteria for emergency management in
schools year-round. [This publication was produced by The
Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical
Assistance (TA) Center.]
Date Published: 2016-01-25 14:50:12
Identifier: ERIC_ED494843
Item Size: 4996424
Language: english
Media Type: texts
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