SCHOOL
SAFETY
What to do in the... BY ABRIL SALINAS, Editor
Hallway:
During a hold-in-place go to the nearest classroom, student services or front office. If you are in the hallway during a school shooting, run to the nearest exit and get out.
Bathroom:
Safety terminology BY MADELINE HOCKEY, Editor
Active shooter/ threat:
Initiated by PA announcement when there is a threat inside the school building.
Hold-in-place:
Initiated by PA announcement when an incident is occurring within the school (ex. Medical emergency, escalating student, nonlife threatening issue).
Secure building:
Initiated by PA announcement when there is a hazard outside the school building. A Secure Building is a precautionary step.
Intruder/ unauthorized visitor:
During a hold-in-place go to the nearest classroom, student services or front office. Be alert of the surroundings. This is good for anybody whether you are in a classroom, hallway, bathroom or outside. There’s a sulfur smell when a gun fires, so if your smelling that, you’re pretty close to whatever is going on. You have to take in whatever your senses are giving you.
Classroom:
During a hold-in-place listen to your teachers instructions and stay in the classroom. During a school shooting if you are close enough to an exit and you think you can make it, run. If not, try hiding where you cannot be seen and that is behind something hard to block bullets. If you are by a bookshelf grab textbooks to help slow bullets.
Lunchroom:
During a hold-in-place listen to the lunch monitors and other instructions given to you. During a school shooting, there are exits all over the lunchroom. Get out through one of the doors. If you think running is your best option, then run. Forget your belongings, try not to freeze up and trust your instincts. Don’t hesitate.
All visitors are required to use the main entrance and wear a visitor’s pass while in the building.
What should subs do? BY ASHLEY EDWARDS, Editor
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nfortunately our world has grown to know that heavily populated areas run a risk for a possible invader for taking advantages of the lives around them—one of those places are schools. The actions that are taken by teachers to protect their students involve training through ALICE, but what would a substitute do? According to Active Shooter Response Training, 1 million individuals in the United States have been trained with ALICE, yet substitute teachers have been out of the loop. Thankfully the district office has an orientation for the subs at the begin-
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ning of every school year that highlights points involving an intruder. “We function that day as if they have no training, general protocol, how the school runs and making sure the red folder is in the room. Every teacher is required to have a sub folder that has all the details for that class and that’s what the sub takes on,” Principal Jill Maras said. The office keeps tabs on who is substituting in the building and they try their best to make sure everything is going smoothly in a hold in place. “We were well aware of who is subbing in the building during the last
hold in place so we’ll always have that on our radar. We also have to function assuming that not everyone has access to an email, anything that needs to be said we make sure that those get that information,” Maras said. “Keep a level head. All the information that is given to the staff is the same for the substitutes,” Officer Sarah Conley said. Substitutes might not get the same training, but being the one to take care of the class, administration hopes they put their students before themselves if any intruder were to enter the classroom. ALL PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHIES TIV
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BY KT MATTERN, Editor EMMA GLENNON, Editor
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We just constantly need to keep the lines of communication open between staff administration, students and parents. The best thing we can do is make sure everyone is on the same page with emergency procedures and when something does go wrong how we respond to something and how we learn from it.
Dominic Bruno
I think that we need to rethink the way the building entrances are monitored and that there should be armed teachers amongst the school and a monitor who comes in and out of the school.
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I think that maybe if we didn’t have to carry our backpacks anymore because you never know what kids are carrying and we can’t search backpacks when we walk into the school so if people didn’t have backpacks I think I’d feel more safe.
I feel that the teachers and the administration really have the students’ best interest at heart and so I think as we grow through these changes as long as we communicate with the students what the new procedures are going to be. I think that’ll make kids feel safer and safer. Joseph Conroy
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I think that all the teachers can protect us, we have the doors locked all the time. It’s really hard to get past our security a lot more than when I was a freshman here so I think that we’re much safer now than a few years ago.
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I think that we should actually take advice from the students and the educators who have to deal with the students all day because you guys are our best resource, you guys find out what’s going on before we do and we should welcome that and open up those doorways to know what you guys are seeing and what you’re feeling because you probably can come up with a lot better ideas than we can. Lori Shroka
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I think that we should have more practices in the school and more mornings for the students and the staff to both practice so we would be better prepared for in case there was some kind of emergency. Brooke Heinsohn
PROTOCOL FOR DISABLED STUDENTS BY AMANDA MALAWSKI, Editor
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or most students, evacuating in case of an emergency isn’t an issue. They can just walk out of their classroom or down the stairs and out the building. However, disabled students running out of the building on their own isn’t possible. According to principal Jill Maras, each student that has a disability has their own individualized plan in case of an emergency spelled in their Individual Education Plan (IEP) depending on their mobility issues and ability to self evacuate. “Sometimes their physical or occupational therapist would be part of that conversation because everybody is going to be a little bit different depending on what their disability hinders them in what they’re able to do in an emergency,” Maras said. Sandy Faletto, the head of Special Education, works with the security to come up with individual plans for each student that they practice a couple of times a semester. “I work together with the security team in order to come up with an evacuation plan for students not only in wheelchairs, but for students that have social emotional needs as well during an evacua-
tion. All rules and regulations set in place apply to everybody,” Faletto said. Now for students who are in wheelchairs the protocol is different, specifically when they are on the second floor. “They’re not allowed to use the elevator. In each stairwell, there’s a device called an Evacuation Chair. It’s a chair that has rollers on it that go down the stairs so that the student that’s in a wheelchair transports themself from their wheelchair to the evac chair and it rolls down the stairs and then out the door,” Faletto said. When creating a plan for students, Faletto takes into account who will be there to assist the student in need. “There is a system in place where there are two people helping that person. If this is a scenario where there is an active shooter and you do anything you can to survive. If we don’t have time to be transporting into an evac chair, we will be lifting, carrying, on our backs, whatever we have to do to make sure all students are out of that danger zone,” Faletto said Throughout the year they carry out practice drills to prepare students for evacuating situations.
BY ALEX MALAWSKI, Editor
HOW TO HELP OTHERS
HOW TO HELP YOURSELF
Knowing where the exits are and the AED machines are that’s just you training yourself in these situations, according to Erin Shore
According to Anne Kuntz during these events, pay attention to feelings and facts, according to Anne Kuntz.
Switch gears, get their minds off of the anxiety such as watching videos, according to Shore
Try regulating your breathing, according to Kuntz
BY SHELBY HARPER, Editor
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After a hold-in-place occurs, when is a good time to stop by and ask questions?
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“Our doors are open, set up a time to stop by and see, email is probably an easy way. There’s also the hot line on the Kaneland website,” Jill Maras said.
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What is the chain of command?
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“It’s a concern of if you’re worried who’s the first person to talk to, it could be a friend a teacher, if that person isn’t responding to you in a way that you think is important, then you’d go to the next level and that would be Mr West, then Mrs Faber and then me and then Mrs Maras,” Carri Oslager said.
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Is the option always available to talk with Administration?
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“I would say that even stopping by is an even better option, it is open, definitely want that to be the case, if it is really truly an emergency, then go through your chain of command,” Carri Oslager said. Page design by Priscilla Purnell