A 62-year-old gunman pointed a .380 semi-automatic gun in a Tennessee Principal’s face yesterday. The School Resource Officer (SRO) drew her gun and shielded the Principal’s body with her own. The principal, Melanie Riden, was able to flee the area. The SRO, Sheriff’s Deputy Carolyn Gudger, lured the gunman into the empty high school cafeteria — a more contained […]
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Ken Trump’s Blog
- School safety leaders: Focus on your core school security mission and functions (Lessons from recent Secret Service catastrophic security failures)
- Growing legal school safety mandates and proposed consultant/vendor-driven school security “standards” may mean well, but many create unrealistic mandates that are impossible for schools to comply with
- Retired? Briefly Hired? Fired? Strategic school safety leaders need to look deeper at job titles used by security vendors
- Superintendents can learn a critical school safety lesson from the now-former Secret Service director: You can handle an investigation properly, but you may lose your job if you bungle the communications
- From the White House to the schoolhouse, there is no perfect security – but by focusing on human factors, we can reduce risks