2aguy
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This is a look at how Florida is dealing with the rare threat of mass public school shootings.......they are doing it rationally, and not focusing on guns...
They then invested in carefully considered solutions that, at least to a large extent, were directed at fixing actual problems and filling concrete needs.
They significantly improved how local, state, and school officials identify, assess, and handle potential threats within schools. The state now has standardized behavioral threat assessment tools and procedures, which must be implemented by every school’s mandated threat assessment team. Students have a readily accessible and highly publicized app to anonymously report threatening or violent behavior.
Florida schools are now required to facilitate early intervention by implementing multi-tiered systems that better connect students with evidence-based mental healthcare both on and off campus. There are minimum physical safety and threat response standards, and schools must annually assess their compliance with these standards.
>>> Biden Rejected School Safety Measures Without a Plan
Moreover, the state completely revised its training program for School Resource Officers with respect to crisis intervention and emergency threat responses. Forty-six counties now participate in the Coach Aaron Reis Guardian Program, through which over 1,000 school employees have been voluntarily trained to provide an armed response to on-campus active assailant incidents.
www.heritage.org
They then invested in carefully considered solutions that, at least to a large extent, were directed at fixing actual problems and filling concrete needs.
They significantly improved how local, state, and school officials identify, assess, and handle potential threats within schools. The state now has standardized behavioral threat assessment tools and procedures, which must be implemented by every school’s mandated threat assessment team. Students have a readily accessible and highly publicized app to anonymously report threatening or violent behavior.
Florida schools are now required to facilitate early intervention by implementing multi-tiered systems that better connect students with evidence-based mental healthcare both on and off campus. There are minimum physical safety and threat response standards, and schools must annually assess their compliance with these standards.
>>> Biden Rejected School Safety Measures Without a Plan
Moreover, the state completely revised its training program for School Resource Officers with respect to crisis intervention and emergency threat responses. Forty-six counties now participate in the Coach Aaron Reis Guardian Program, through which over 1,000 school employees have been voluntarily trained to provide an armed response to on-campus active assailant incidents.
Five Years After Parkland, Florida’s Measured Response Is an Outlier
Five years ago today, on February 14, 2018, a teen gunman walked into the halls of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and murdered 17 people. The shooting was all the more tragic for the several layers of official failure surrounding it. There were far too many missed...
www.heritage.org
