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