School Safety Committees

School Safety Committee

This week has been a blur.  Spring Break begins next week, and I am ready!  On Tuesday I had a meeting scheduled with the district's school safety specialists. This meeting was the first for this school safety committee in quite some time, and we had a full agenda.  Unfortunately, the meeting had to be rescheduled due to a miscommunication.  Sometimes that's how the cookie crumbles.

A Great Idea

There are numerous Indiana Codes concerning school safety.  Each school district must have a School Safety Specialist.  That person must attend the county's School Safety Commission, if there is one (Hancock County has one!), and each school should have a Safe School Committee.

In my district, we have nearly 15 certified School Safety Specialists.  The meeting that was cancelled was to coordinate our efforts, and to provide them with the resources they need to assess our school's safety plans to the standards given to us by the Indiana Department of Education.

The meeting has been rescheduled, and in the meantime, we will use phones and emails to coordinate our efforts.  Where there is a will, there is a way!