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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Anchor Bay Schools Steps Up Security After Sandy Hook Shootings

District officials and New Baltimore police discussed increased safety measures at the Wednesday night Anchor Bay Board of Education meeting.

In response to safety concerns, Anchor Bay Schools stepped up security early this week in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, district officials said Wednesday night. After the Friday shootings in Connecticut, Anchor Bay Schools discussed plans over the weekend to help ease parent and faculty fears. Among the decisions was to provide a non-threatening police presence when school resumed. The district also is implementing additional security measures like requiring SAC program parents to show identification while dropping off their children in the morning for the daycare program in locked schools, according to the district. "It increases building security even before the school day starts," Superintendent Leonard Woodside …

Jason

6:38 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012

A properly arm ed/trained staff could have met him at that window and possibly prevented the loss we endured.   more ›

Monday, December 17, 2012

What Readers Are Saying About School Security

New Baltimore-Chesterfield Township Patch readers share their thoughts on the site and on our Facebook page.

On the heels of one of the worst school shootings in American history, New Baltimore-Chesterfield Patch readers shared their thoughts on school security. Readers commented on the site and on our Facebook page when asked if local districts, like Anchor Bay, L'Anse Creuse and New Haven Community Schools, should re-think security after the mass shooting Friday in Connecticut. Among the responses: The comments come as the public learns more about the tragedy in which a 20-year-old gunman fatally shot his mother before forcing his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School where he killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself, according to news reports. President Barack Obama was to visit Newtown Sunday night to meet with …

Roy F. Rivard

8:43 am on Monday, December 17, 2012

Maybe if the teachers and school workers were trained in and had concealed weapons there would have been a lot fewer lost lives in the school. Immediate action is what is requuired   more ›

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