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RE: "secure" campus drill....

From: Kimberly Anne Herbert (kimberly)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 08:15:13 PST

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    Kids can find fire and tornado drill frightening also. If you deal with the
    secure campus drill calmly, you might calm the fears of your students. Try
    to communicate that you are working to make them safe, and you do not think
    something is going to happen today. In my Junior High School teachers were
    required to keep their doors locked at all times (you could open them from
    the inside). The reason a parent had shown up with a knife to kidnap the
    child they had lost custody of. I do not have the statistics in front of me,
    but school violence has actually declined in the last 5 years. Kids are
    safer in school than almost anywhere else in the United States. You might
    find those statistics and share them with your kids if they are old enough
    to understand. Above all make sure the kids do not accidentally overhear
    teachers discussing their own fears.

    Kimberly Herbert (kimberly)
    CAM Administrator
    San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and Children's Art Museum

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    From: Bunki Kramer [bkramer.us]
    Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:06 PM
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk
    Subject: "secure" campus drill....

    from: Bunki Kramer
    Los Cerros Middle School
    968 Blemer Road
    Danville, CA 94526
    bkramer.us
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    I'm curious to find out if any of you are experiencing this at your school.
    Monday we are to have our FIRST "secure campus" drill. This is in case
    someone comes on campus with a weapon, etc. and we have to secure our
    classroom with children. We're supposed to pull all of the students away
    from windows, sit on the floor far from same, I'm supposed to close drapes,
    run outside my door to lock it...dumb idea getting doors that lock from the
    outside only (...but, hey, that's district planning...what can I say?), then
    run back inside and call the office to report on the kids I have with me at
    the time. They will also send out pre-selected students to see if we find
    them outside near our doorways and we must pull them inside too. This is
    going to be interesting.

    Do any of you have school drills like this? If so, how long have you been
    doing them? I really curious. Toodles........... 

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