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In the news: 'We’ve developed tools that can prevent incidents from happening'
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From Student Transportion News
January 2, 2015
By Art Gissendaner
There is no doubt that school violence is a hot-button topic. The Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings serve as exclamation points in a tragic narrative on contemporary society that could be titled: “Education Should Not Be a Life-Threatening Activity.”
At the outset, many educators, law enforcement officials and security experts focused their attention on making classrooms more secure. This approach is manifest in the proliferation of security summits, symposia and conferences. Recently the focus has included increasing security on school buses, considered by many to be extensions of the classroom.
School buses are considered “soft targets” that carry the most vulnerable and precious cargo. While there is debate about whether the bus can be transformed into a harder target, security experts and district transportation officials agreed that no progress toward increased security can happen without including bus drivers in any crisis prevention or mitigation training.
