D181 Board Gets Post-Newtown School Safety Recommendations
The district's safety committee, made up of administrators and local public safety officials, said the schools' buzz-in systems should be upgraded and visitor background checks should be performed, but did not support armed security in the schools.
After last month’s horrific Newtown, CT, school shooting, the District 181 Safety Committee said it supported several new safety measures in district schools at Monday night’s school board meeting. The safety committee, made up of local public safety officials including Hinsdale Police Chief Brad Bloom, Clarendon Hills DARE officer Rick Talerico, and Burr Ridge Police Deputy Chief Tim Vaclav, met on Dec. 20, less than a week after the Dec. 14 Newtown shooting, and determined that District 181 should advance single-buzzer entry systems to double-buzzer systems at each school and have building secretaries perform criminal checks of visitors before entry. The committee stopped short Monday night of recommending bulletproof windows, metal …
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FRANK
3:52 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
True that the majority of children are safe. However, isn't protecting our children to a greater extent than they are protected today worth it? In my opinion, our children are most precious and valuable. It’s worth the investment. We have armed security for many other things that are much less valuable. So why not them? I am in favor and want to see some sort of armed security within our schools… more ›