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Retired school principal here: I sat through hours of Incident Command trainings, security reviews, sales pitches for new locks, badges, drills….

In my experience, this is the best, most basic, real and achievable suggestion for school safety and quick response to an active shooter that takes basic human nature into account.

Staff, students, volunteers, parents, maintenance guys, substitute teachers, lunch ladies…. Very few people on a school campus know the address, and internet access in an emergency is unreliable in many spaces of a school. This low cost, low tech system could be taught and implemented anywhere by every school at any level. In fact all public spaces could benefit.

I will share it with friends still working in schools.

Thanks for all you do.

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