Safety & Security Meeting - October 11, 3:30PM (tentative date)

NOTE: Board Chair James Manning unilaterally disbanded the Committee on September 15. Watch for an announcement of the group's meeting, coming soon.

At last night's school board meeting Trustee Monica Scott announced the next meeting of the Committee of the Whole on Safety & Security. The Committee will meet on Tuesday, October 11th, 3:30PM, at R2i2 (not September 27). This is a tentative date, until confirmed.

She had to fight the objections and resistance of Board Chair James Manning, who tried to funnel her through "procedures" for scheduling the meeting. Trustee Scott knew that wouldn't work, because she had already tried that. 

The continuation of the work of the Committee is very important, approaching urgent. Not yet an emergency; no one is dead or bleeding.

Hopefully, the Committee will expand to include parents, staff, community members and others who are not under the thumb of the superintendent. 

The superintendent and staff have had 4½ years to work on this. At the February 27, 2018 board meeting I requested a survey of parents, staff, tickets and community members on the topic of arming teachers.

NOTE: I did not request the arming of teachers; I requested a survey. Supt. Davis said, "No" without consulting the Board.

A couple of weeks later I suggested the District apply for a School Safety Shield Grant. RSD2 might have received a $15,-20,000 no-strings grant to improve school safety & security. Supt. Davis said "No" without consulting the Board. (The money would have come from the NRA. Ohhhhhh, bad word.)

Where are we now? BeSMART and gunlocks. On a scale of 1-100 for solutions, that's about 0.5.