Active-shooters and Lock Downs
This is the first in a series of posts designed to foster a “culture of compliance” regarding responding to lock-down or active shooter scenarios. A century ago, fires on campus were a significant worry as students and staff were frequently being seriously injured or killed in those events. As a result, federal, state, county, and local laws and ordinances were developed. These regulations created consistent fire safety practices based on the “3 E’s” of compliance. Engineer
Expectations vs Applications
There are many lessons from the recent domestic violence related tragedy in a San Bernardino classroom and we can see the District has taken swift action by initiating much more stringent campus visitor policies. We congratulate the school board for taking swift action, however, what SBUSD, as well as every School Board across the country must keep in mind is that the expectation of written policy is only as good as the application of that policy at the school site level. The