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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCCPTA advocated for an alert system after the bomb threat incident at Churchill years ago under Benz.  Both that incident and last week’s assault highlighted the most vulnerable times of the school day is when students are coming to school - either at the beginning of the school day or at lunch.  These are the times doors are unlocked and students are outside coming into the building. Not an easy time to lockdown the building or get students to safety.

MCPS needs to wake up and realize safety attacks will come at these periods of vulnerability, not on their class schedules. [/quote]
And how should MCPS address that risk?[/quote]

[b] Use the same robo phone, text, and email service [/b] that Mr. Taylor uses for his Sunday announcements.  You can prepare a general lockdown alert that tells students on campus to go into the building and secure themselves in a classroom. For students not on campus should go home till it is safe to go to school.

College campuses have used such alerts for over a decade.  MCPS has the technology but has never used it to improve school safety.[/quote]

I don’t know about other families, but my HS student doesn’t get those robocalls, the parents do. My kid would never see an MCPS email in time to react to an emergency. They probably wouldn’t answer a phone call from MCPS, either. They might see a text, but there’s a chance they wouldn’t even read it right away if it weren’t from a friend or family member.

We all just get so much canned messaging from MCPS that nobody treats any of them as urgent. I think it would need to be a dedicated emergency source in order to be of any use in a real emergency. The emergency text/email service at the university I work for is completely separate from any other messaging. If you see a message from them, you know something is happening right now.[/quote]

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