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[quote=Anonymous]My child was at Edmund Burke School on April 22 when a gunman opened fire. They sought shelter in a locked storage room with peers. They had a cell phone through which they could communicate with 9-1-1 and text us directly, and were able to recharge the phone until the time of reunification hours later. All classrooms and other spaces should have a universal charger.

I cannot begin to imagine a circumstance in which we were not able to communicate with our child and we were forced to stand by helplessly for over an hour while police did nothing except taze and pepper spray frantic parents.

Thankfully the situation did not result in any deaths but the police were both empathetic and professional. They maintained a perimeter several blocks from the school and continued to pass on such information as they could, including whether the tactical teams had entered the building and whether the gunman had been apprehended or neutralized. We were able to pass on information from our child — which admittedly wasn’t much other than location and well being — in real time and that was radioed to the incident command. The officer followed up periodically to see if anything had changed.

One of the issues that was problematic was when police were searching the school they made announcements to the effect that students should leave the shelter-in-place spaces. Students were reluctant so because they couldn’t be sure that this wasn’t the shooter making the announcement. This is important issue for further training as we have learned that police called out to students to respond at Cobb resulting in one being shot.

We neverthess will be forever grateful for the remarkable manner in which this was handled. It is a difficult job that can be performed with humanity.

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