Lewiston’s Schools Superintendent Bill Webster stated “The new Connors Elementary school under construction … won’t have any bullet-proof doors or windows.” That is so shortsighted. Building a new school is the time to at least deal with entrance doors that have glass. Some could be changed for solid doors. Some glass walls could be made […]
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Becky Secrest: Helping schools stay safe for 10 years
COUNTY — Becky Secrest may have one of the most important jobs in the county. Keeping its children safe while they are in school. The 65-year-old Greenwood resident is the county Emergency Management Agency (EMA) School Planner. Although it may sound innocuous, her role is to work with schools to train and implement plans for myriad […]
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New Lewiston school not 'hardened'
The current elementary school being built in Lewiston is not a “hardened, safe” school. The front entrance is glass (not bulletproof). Someone with an assault weapon could easily breach it and be in the school, probably killing many in the front office on the way into the building. The other five or six entrances/exits have […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Protect the children from all forms of violence
The thought of innocent kids, teachers and support staff being shot in the nation’s schools should shake us all to our core. Although I do not agree that guns are the reason people decide to perpetrate these horrible crimes, I do recognize that, as a defender of the right to own firearms, I must be […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Schools & Education
Paying respect, being heard and working on solution
PARIS — At 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 15 – one day late because of the snowstorm – approximately 200 of the 1,100 student body at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School walked quietly out the side door and assembled at the bus loop. Administrators including Superintendent of Schools Rick Colpitts, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett and Principal Ted Moccia, […]
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Parents concerned about politicized student walkout
PARIS — SAD 17 Director Natalie Brown said she believes the administration was “remiss” in not bringing directors into the planning conversation about a student walkout that subsequently turned into a political anti-gun rally at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on March 15. Brown addressed her fellow directors and administration at the end of the […]
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Mix-up during school security review shakes up students in Windham
A police security review at Windham High School went awry Thursday morning when one officer unexpectedly ordered a group of students in the cafeteria to get on the floor. The officer, one of five conducting a walk-through inspection, told the students in the study group, “This is a drill, this is a drill, please get […]
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Ohio schools include teachers and guns in security plans
RIVERSIDE, Ohio — The safes were installed last summer. Thirty-two in all. Spread out among the four elementary schools, the two middle schools, the high school and the administration building of the Mad River Local Schools district here on the outskirts of Dayton. On Aug. 14, the first day of school for the district’s 3,900 […]
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17 minutes
PARIS — On March 14, at 10 a.m., Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be hosting a school walkout to promote school safety. The walkout will last for 17 minutes – one minute for each of the lives lost at the recent Parkland school shooting. Students and staff are invited to walk out of classes and […]
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Arm teachers? Bad idea, say L-A teachers, students
Lewiston High School math teacher Samantha Garnett Sias, shown in her class in September, said Friday that the NRA’s suggestion of arming teachers in response to school shootings is a bad one. Other teachers and students also said teachers should not be armed. (Sun Journal file photo) LEWISTON — Giving teachers guns would be “absurd” […]