Cards can be worn as ID badges
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by teachers allowing teachers to
access and deny access to their
classrooms at will.
May 2018 Edition
The locking mechanism locks au-
tomatically upon closure and can
only be opened through the use
of a card key, master card key or
from the inside of the room as
per egress requirements.
The second problem men-
tioned was that of consisten-
cy of methodologies taught
within the school system as a
whole.
It is essential that we consider what happens if a “bad guy” breaches our
“secure” perimeter at any level – then what?
As mentioned earlier, omitting the
“fight” portion from run-hide-fight renders the
aforementioned methodology useless.
While one may cringe at the thought of telling a middle
or high school age child that he/she might be required
to put up maximum resistance to a would-be attacker,
This is not only because run-hide is nothing more the thought of teaching children to simply curl up into
the fetal position is equally reprehensible.
than repackaged shelter-in-place but also because
it fails to address to the psychological aspect in- An examination of “what the shooter needs” to accomplish
herent in run-hide-fight, namely a desire to live. his/her task can be reverse engineered to develop simple
Without the psychological aspect one has resigned their
safety to that of the cunning and moral fortitude of their
attackers, both of which are largely on display in the worst
sense by virtue of the fact that the shooter is even present
and engaged in the act to begin with.
responses that systematically remove the 3 components
that must be present for any shooter to employ accurate
fire on a target.
These components can be remembered using the
acrostic: C.O.P.
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