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Friday, December 14, 2012

Local Area Schools Locked Down Tighter Than a Drum

Reactions to shooting tragedy in Newtown, CT are swift and heart-felt.

In light of the awful, terrible shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, this is how the local schools in Ladue and Frontenac are handling security for their students, staff and administration. Ladue’s Communications Director Susan Dielmann reports Ladue Schools have been secured behind electronic doors ever since Prop K passed in 2007, giving them funds to finish that project. “Our parents, families all know no one enters the building without first being buzzed in by security. Our staff has keys and cards to gain entry from the outside. Parents and other visitors must first check in with the front office then wear badges when traveling through any of our buildings.” Dielmann said the shooting in Connecticut is just…

PaulRevere

5:19 am on Monday, December 17, 2012

And so does every Home in the Ladue District have ample security installed? Let's not Turn this incident into a NATIONAL School Security Problem. It is 100% a National Cultural Problem of "Violence". Terrorism vs Warped Minds are 2 different problems. Aside from Ladue's great security set-up , We have schools that are barely able to survive because of the financial ability of the Parent's. …   more ›

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