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Is Your Child's School Safe?
Could the shooting that took place in Connecticut happen at your child's school?
The Connecticut shooting has awakened many parents, especially me. Most teachers and school administrators focus on ways to make sure students are present in class, safely getting to the right bus and safely making it home, but the thought of some random person walking into your school and shooting students is not something that we prepare for. Every school goes through the traditional fire drill and hurricane drill, but what about the “Stranger-Danger” drill? The president said it best that this is becoming all too familiar to our nation. So is your child’s school safe? Over the last two months, I took the time to visit a few elementary schools within Lawrenceville. My son will be attending kindergarten next year so before we make the …
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Shaira Leah Gomez
1:38 am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
This horrific incident might happen to everyone. Its just sad to know that sometimes people tend to be lenient towards safety and precautions. You'll only realize how important such thing, is when you're put into a situation where your life is on the line. Assault, burglary, rape and more crimes like this has been happening 24 hours/7 days a week. You may have not experience such things however, … more ›