Category: School Safety News
Case Study - Fighting Back Against a School Shooter
Lately it seems there has been a lot of interest in schools and colleges instructing teachers to fight back when confronted with an armed attacker. Certainly the thought of having teachers (and even students) being told to throw books and fight back against a gunman is incredible and counter-intuitive. Luckily no one ever told by Ryan Crowley, Jake Ryker, Josh Ryker, Douglas Ure, Davis Ure, Ada Walberger, Joshua Pearson and Travis Weaver not to fight back against a school shooter. In 1998, these seven students prevented an attacker from killing more of their schoolmates.
On May 20, 1998, 15year-old Kipland (Kip) Phillip Kinkel was expelled from school for possessing a loaded firearm. His father, Bill Kinkel, a 59 year-old Spanish teacher picked him up from the police station, where they stopped at a Burger King on the drive home.
The Way NOT to Conduct a Lockdown Drill
Recently a school district implemented a surprise lockdown drill at an early learning center that included pretend bad guys using weapons firing blank rounds. If this school had armed teachers, like the school in Texas discussed in a previous post, I suspect I’d be writing about a completely different tragedy. As it is, the tragedy was only in training and that is where mistakes are supposed to happen.
School District Says “No” to Armed Guards
As colleges, universities, schools and districts get ready for the start of another school year; Iowa City School District made a major security-related decision. They decided not to do anything and keep School Resource Officers (SRO’s), armed guards or unarmed security of any kind out of their schools.
According to an article the District committee that made this recommendation was comprised of principals, teachers, students and parents. Seemingly absent from the committee was law enforcement and/or security professionals.
Secondary Attacks and Their Countermeasures VIDEO
Coordinate assessment and response strategies with law enforcement.
Stay safe
Brad
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