A Few FAQs
Is my child's school responsible to protect my child from a School shooter?
NO. School districts are not legally obligated to provide your child with any safety features to protect them in a school shooting.
What? Why not?
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School districts are only obligated to install what has been legally recognized Safety Hazards in State and federal Emergency Safety Building Code’s (ESBC). A school shooter attacking students and teachers inside k-12 schools is not classified as an emergency safety hazard under current laws.
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How come when I ask my child's school district about shooting safety they say they have best plans in place?
Although lacking essential safety features to prevent a catastrophic threat from entering classrooms, schools mandate that students seek shelter under desks to prepare for lockdown procedures. School districts are able to justify children/students doing “lockdowns” in this manner as “comprehensive plans” due to the absence of any legal standards.
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Students using tables and chairs as shields in the event the shooter breached their classroom during a shooting lockdown. This is extremely traumatizing. Many parents are unaware this takes place.
The Safe Zone Solution's two simple adjustments would eliminate the traumatizing aspects of all of this. No child should ever go through this without first, a guarantee the shooter cannot breach the school entrance and second, the classroom can't be breached either.
Are the Standard Protocols and lock down drills in my child's schools sufficient to keep them safe?
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No. The presence of standard classroom doors with a central glass panel transforms classrooms into perilous environments during school shootings. This situation leaves students and teachers helplessly trapped in unimaginable scenarios, resulting in numerous high-casualty school shooting incidents resulting from being trapped while in Standard lockdown protocols.
“The murderer shot him through the classroom door window, striking my son twice in the chest. His spinal cord was severed - he died instantly. My son had been sitting with three other kids. All four were shot. The shooter returned to Alex's classroom after firing into the hallway. It was then that he shot and killed my son's classmates, Alaina Petty and Alyssa Alhadeff, while they were hiding.”.......
~Max Schachter
Father of Alex Schachter
Why do schools remain so unprotected from school shootings?
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The failure to classify shootings as legally recognized student safety hazards has led to the exclusion of state-of-the-art safety measures designed specifically for preventing mass-casualties and bodily harm in K-12 shootings. These safety features, which should be as readily accessible as fire and earthquake prevention measures inside school buildings, are not universally mandated or implemented.
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What can a parent do to help our child's school become school shooter safe?
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Parents, you are not powerless!
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Contact the school and ask for a formal meeting with the principal. Request an explanation of the standard protocols.
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Request to review your child's classroom door.
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Highlight the vulnerability in writing of the glass panel and the glass entryway and submit it to the superintendent office and request a meeting.
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Fill out our parent Safe Zone Solution request form and submit it to the school district. Submit your request form signed by yourself and as many parents from your child's school you can get and submit it to the Superintendent’s Office. Request that they set up a consultation with an SZS representative to receive a Safe Zone Solution consultation for bullet resistant doors and polycarbonate bullet shield glazing on all entryways and interior glass at no cost to the school!
What Parents Need to Know
School shooting survivor: 'Kids were bleeding out everywhere'
Full testimony from Uvalde survivor Miah Cerrillo
Reporter: “Samantha, as I understand it, the door to your classroom was actually locked, but he shot through the glass. What happened?”
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Samantha: “Yeah, the door was locked thankfully, but he shot quite a few bullets into the glass and it hit a few people behind me. It was intense.”