Category: Articles, Education, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, School Safety/Violence, Security LUCK IS NOT A SCHOOL SECURITY PROGRAM TASA ID: 915 Not a week goes by without yet another security breach report involving a K-12 school, the details surrounding such events as sexual assault, knife attacks, social media threats, guns carried onto school property or an actual shooting. These reports are from every part of the country. Read more
Category: School Safety/Violence Preventing Violence - Priority Number One TASA ID: 468 Preventing violence is fast becoming every school administrator's number one priority, or is it? It has become increasingly clear that schools and the culture they create can become a hotbed environment for random acts of violence, crime, and fear. If school managers (principals, assistant principals, counselors, and even school superintendents) fail to recognize and work to alter the present school culture that inadequately prevents bullying, harassment, and intimidation among students and staff, then we will continue to see students act out in the most disturbing ways. Read more
Category: Safety, School Safety/Violence Five Critical School Safety Issues TASA ID: 2774 This consulting company's research team has provided biyearly school safety reports for Congress since the year 2000. The following list was developed from interviews with teachers, school security personnel, police and principals from 120 school districts throughout the United States. Read more
Category: Safety, School Safety/Violence Escalating Violence and Parental Litigation: The National Call for Student Safety Plans in School Districts and Universities TASA ID: 1646 If there is any university president or school superintendent in the nation who currently operates without formalized school safety plans in place (quite apart from the noticeable but ignored "thou-shalt-nots" festooned on campus walls, doors and fences), s/he needs to regard-as a wake-up scream-the thunderous allegations of negligence, child endangerment, foreseen traumatic event, breach of duty of care, sexual molestation, dereliction of duty, and reckless disregard hurled by a passing parade of aggrieved and angry parents. Read more
Category: School Safety/Violence Everything You Wanted to Know About School Safety but Were Sued First TASA ID: 1646 On June 14, 2013, the nation paused to pray and remember the unspeakably horrific shooting, a massacre that claimed 26 lives, on December 14, 2012, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown Connecticut. Legions of the country's experts, including me, continue to engage in differential diagnoses and soul-searching for answers as to who and what went wrong. The cruel irony is that Sandy Hook Elementary School probably could not have done anything more, different or better, to protect its students, short of constructing a walled-in campus inside of which students would receive provisions and other necessities from the outside. Read more
