The New York State Education Department is banning realistic active shooter drills in schools in an effort to make them less traumatic for students. The state’s new rules call for a “trauma-informed” and “age-appropriate” approach to drills that excludes the use of any props, actors or...
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Earlier reports of a possible active shooter in a high school in the U.S. state of North Carolina on Friday morning may have been a false alarm. Local media reported earlier that the Pender County School System confirmed the incident took place at Topsail H...
next to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside, Ohio, began holding shooter drills shortly after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Beverly Gardens is also one of a small number of schools nationwide that actively trains and arms some of its ...
"An active shooter situation is scary," he told one group of teachers. "In this scenario you didn't fight back and what happened? He was able to shoot you guys and that's it. In a scenario where you fight back you have a chance to go home at the end of the day."...
3. In a mass casualty event, the police are there to engage the shooter While police are often seen as a beacon of rescue in a crisis, they are not there to individually assist students. Their primary directive is to engage with and de-escalate the shooter. In other words, your student...
The school, along with neighboring Topsail Middle and Elementary schools remain in lockdown, it added. The school system said earlier in the morning an active shooter was reported at the high school, prompting a swift investigation by the police. ...
PHOENIX - As schools prepare to get back to the classroom, one district is preparing for the unexpected before school is back in session. At West Point Elementary School in the West Valley, the Dysart Unified School District put on an active shooter training. "It really is very valua...
There was "no merit" to a report of an active shooter on campus, police said. Police say they checked the campus and lifted the lockdown. A similar incident happened at Woodside High School in San Mateo County. An alert sent out by the county said the school was also in a lockdown...
"Active Shooter," a video game that allows players to simulate a school shooting, prompted outrage in the wake of multiple mass shootings at American schools. The game is set to be released on June 6 and will beavailableon Steam, a digital distribution platform developed by Valve. Players ar...