Berkley School District Teachers to Receive Active Shooter Training
Homeland Security Division officials are preparing educators from schools throughout Oakland County on how to respond in case of an attack, following December’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT.
Run, hide or fight. Those three actions may save your life in an active shooter situation similar to December’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, according to Oakland County Homeland Security Division officials. It is one of the lessons they will teach Oakland County school administrators, teachers and school staff during 2 1/2-hour training sessions designed to prepare educators for what to do during an attack. "We have district staff signed up to go to future sessions in February," Berkley School District Communications Supervisor Jessica Stilger said. "We have asked each building to send one person from their crisis team to the training. After the training sessions are over, we will be bringing all principals together …
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Kristin Sanders
10:38 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Teachers should do what they know best. TEACH. Police should do what they are trained for. PROTECT. If I had school age children, the last place I would want them is in a school where teachers are carrying guns. It is time to get our priorities straight. Pay teachers and police what they deserve, hire more, not less and make our communites safer, not armed camps. Teach manners, civillity to one … more ›