School Safety Experts Disagree on Lock Down Procedures After Newtown Shooting

Worldwide, Daily news | | December 17, 2012 17:21

Along with fire drills, schools have been conducting lockdown drills — often known as active shooter drills — since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

But safety officials do not agree yet on what teachers and students should do when a homicidal gunman invades their school.
At Sandy Hook Elementary School, teachers, staff and students had been drilled on how to handle such a situation.
“We practice it, and they knew what to do, and you just think about protecting the kids, and just doing the right thing,” library clerk Mary Ann Jacob said.
She said had been drilled to send the kids in the library to a back closet between book shelves, a plan developed in advance.
“You have to have a certain amount of fire drills, and evacuation drills, and a certain amt of lockdown drills,” she said. “Kids know the routine, and the teachers know the routine, and everyone has a spot in the room where they are supposed to go to.”
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