Training--- NBR

shadysladyWed98470

So as a teacher I am headed back to work next week and have been thru all the routine back-to-school trainings all this week. So I go into "Safety Training" this morning and the power point screen is ready to go.....title of today's training in huge letters...."How to Survive an Active Shooter". Very intense, thought provoking training, but very necessary working in a school where my job is to protect my students. And it got me thinking.... Should all places of employment require this type of training? Does your work place have anything like this? Scary to think it could happen but I def feel more prepared to protect myself and my students. Thoughts?

JSS1002

Icky.  But probably very smart things to know about.  Out of curiosity, what do they suggest?  We had an incident where there was there was a suspected shooter in our building last year -- it turned out ot be nothing, but it was super scary.

shadysladyWed98470

There are a lot of variables, ranging from locking down in the classroom when shooter is in your hall, or evacuating if shooter is on other side of building. We were also taught how to barricade our doors, how to counter attack using items in our classroom if shooter was in our room, and what to expect when authorities arrive. We also analyzed and looked at stats of previous school shootings...ways things could have been done differently to possibly prevent fatalities. Icky for sure....but so important.

ceamac0127

I work in Admissions at a college in an urban area and most of our students grew up in poverty/gangs etc and sometimes we get the occasional disgruntled student and I legitimately fear for a few weeks that they will come back to the school and hurt people. I am one of the people who sit on the board and decide if they should be kicked out or allowed to stay in school so I know my face would probably be one they come looking for.

I wish we had training like that. I know it would make me feel safer

ClandestineX

Since the whole Sandy Hook thing, I do think it is necessary for all types of establishments to have safety training regarding armed criminals. It is sad that we live in a world today where schools are not safe, but that is the reality. We are not in the same era where criminals don't harm women and children because they are women and children... where people fought out their differences with their fists instead of guns... where gangs only targeted gangs. 

I look back in history books and honestly don't know where that transitioned happened. 

I am glad they are preparing teachers though, it makes me feel better about schools should I decide to put my son in one rather than homeschool.

shadysladyWed98470

melandjames14 said:

When I was teaching last year we had intense training on this. They brought in some specialist to "grade" our safety and this guy pointed out the areas that we were most vulnerable so we could start there. We did drills at least once a week and in every possible scenario (in the cafeteria, at recess, during drop off and dismissal, etc.)

How did you practice this?

shadysladyWed98470

That was my next question but I guess you already kinda answered it. How did the students do with this?

MrsHartman7

I work in a bank, so we have training/scenarios fairly often in the case of a robbery.  Its based mostly on prevention, and generally in robbery situations no one is looking to start shooting, you try to get them what they want and get them out asap, but we do have procedures for extreme cases...scary stuff!

shadysladyWed98470

We are in the beginning stages of it, so I don't know if we will get to that point. But we were told today that we are the first school district in KY to implement this type of program. I'm sure more and more schools are headed in this direction.