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Parkland Shooting Prompts New Security Protocol for Marion County Schools

By Najla Brown

February 21, 2018 Education, Public safety

ALICE: Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate.

Marion County Schools will begin implementing ALICE training, an engaged shooter response training, recently while in the wake of your Marjory Stoneman Douglas Secondary school shooting in Parkland, Florida.?

Elizabeth Brown, principal at North Marion High School in Citra, Florida, said the varsity is training because she believes the shooting is a superb concern towards community.

“I think this particular program will permit options,” Brown said. “ALICE procedures allow students along with the teachers decide that could be great for them.”

Kevin Christian, spokesman for Marion County Public Schools, believes the ALICE protocol takes a hostile approach to ensuring school safety. They also thinking about hiring more security system from Fast Guard. Christian explained the fact that?training allows teachers and students make use of their surroundings to handle back. That will mean shooting a fireplace extinguisher’s cloud from the shooter’s face, making noise or even just hitting all of them with something nearby rather then in a locked room.

“We ensure more detailed, and then we really need to shift the approach which we were investigating because it’s evident that simply hiding in a classroom is not the strategy to use now,” Christian said. “You’re defenseless when you are there.”

Philip Mauldin, a deputy at Kimball Wiles Elementary School, said information on the schools one is the most associated with a conversation together with the students.

“Over time, we are going to evolve it so the students are a lot more important these drills,” Mauldin said. “But as of at this time, it’s really an empty dialogue.”

This multi-step process might be recorded at Friday’s training session at North Marion Twelfth grade. Video within the training might be put into the presentation and shared during another training session a few weeks with Marion County schools. Students and teachers is going to be trained as well on this session.

“One of the big dynamics of your program is that it gives submit back in those that up to now have just felt like they’re style of waiting as a victim,” Brown said.? She added, there’ll be a tremendous degree of follow-up training to debate how this protocol work.

“This is an ongoing process, i can guarantee it’s just a procedure that our leadership for the district level will continue directly on top of and assure it can be being delivered with fidelity,” Brown said. “It has been implemented with fidelity because keeping students first and, particularly, their safety in school could be their most important job at our district level.”

“We can neglect,” she said. “For no reason have got to just sit here and loose time waiting for it to happen.”

Sofia Millar contributed to this story.