school/child care disaster plans lacking in 28 states

[610Alpha]

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/09/28-states-lack-disaster-plans-schools-and-child-care-centers

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Ok Oklahoma doesn't meet the wishful "State" requirements but individual school districts instead are in charge of their own plan. Kinda like the feds sticking their noses in state business we round here don't need the state overstepping their bounds either. School districts enact their own stuff and the state SUPPORTS them. My wife has worked at a school for the past 5 years and they drill for fire, tornadoes and active shooters and even had a snafu where someone jumped the gun and they locked down and it was a success even though unintended.
Every school I know of has plans for tornadoes, shootings and such and practices them and in fact if you remember our schools in a few places took direct hits by the worst tornadoes in history and there is no plan that can deal with that however we did extremely well IMO and no lives were lost that could have been saved by any other actions or planning. Our First Responders are first rate and know what to do and did it and children were properly reunited after being relocated, if they were not seriously injured or killed, by emergency folks not even from that town that was hit.
Most every Tac Team round here conducts drills and training in the actual school usually at night or weekend so as not to bother folks.
We also have SCRO now they vary as to if they are worth a flip but they are there. Heck even our Game Ranger responded to an incident recently cause we value children round here.
Texas!?! They have guns in the school and that trumps the newstards "state plans" any day for a school shooting.
This is little more than whining because the big boys can't control whats going on in Free America as far as this Okie is concerned

[Grand58742]

A school shooting is a nightmare scenario for a tac team much less the first responding patrolmen on scene. Any team entry (considering two normal patrolmen cops as a "team" up through a SWAT style) will be faced with a hellish floor plan with nooks and crannies, more rooms than you can shake a stick at, rooms of varying sizes from closets to auditoriums and generally long open hallways that are openly inviting for suppressing fire/fatal funnels.

Most of the times during a school shooting (or any active shooter situation for that matter) the perp is thinking of one thing, murder, and will either be roaming around looking for more targets to shoot at or holed up in one location waiting for targets of opportunity. This is critical when the shooting is going on if you happen to be an innocent bystander. Get locked into a room, get on the floor and wait for rescue.

The Newtown shooting gave a lot of schools pause for thought over their active shooter plans and emergency operations. But one thing about plans that most tend to forget. Once implemented, they are never what you practice for. A group of elementary school kids can practice for one thing, but if the situation was ever to occur (heaven forbid) all plans are out the window.

I would think that most, if not all schools have thought of the emergency situations considering what we've been through this past year with Newtown and the Oklahoma tornadoes and put some plans in place. And if they haven't, probably a good time to get down to your local school board meeting and pointedly ask why not.

[610Alpha]

The only thing i have heard the schools do in my AO is send text alerts...I would like to know that the school officials are at least thinking about this stuff...but who am i just a lowly tax payer who doesn't know anything. I would like to know that the school and local law are working together to have some action plan in place, people don't plan to fail they fail to plan. Not that I am perfect I just know how things can get pushed down the priority list...and I also know the small community mentality "nothing like that would happen here" (famous last words).

The other point of the article is what about day cares and how do they plan to reunite families after an incident. I don't think they need to tell the whole world what the plans are per se but informing the parents that they do have plans and how they can reunite with their children should any event occur. We used to take our kids to daycare, until we decided that my wife should stay home with them. I know a lot of parents don't have that option but day cares are even more vulnerable IMO.