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School
Safety
Plans
PREVENT
/
PREPARE
/
RESPOND
K-12
School
Safety
&
Emergency
Evacuation
Planning
Data
from
the
National
Crime
Victimization
Survey
show
that
in
one
recent
year,
students
ages
12-18
were
victims
of
about
1.9
million
nonfatal
crimes
at
school,
including
about
1.2
million
thefts
and
740,000
violent
crimes
(simple
assault
and
serious
violent
crime)
—150,000
of
which
were
serious
violent
crimes
(rape,
sexual
assault,
robbery,
and
aggravated
assault.
Many
tragedies
have
plagued
our
schools
and
communities
for
too
long.
In
some
cases,
these
tragedies
have
robbed
our
youth
of
their
lives.
On
Apr.
20,
1999,
the
Safety
of
our
students
everywhere
was
seriously
questioned.
That
was
the
day
when
Columbine
High
School
students
Dylan
K.,
17,
and
Eric
Harris,
18,
went
on a
shooting
rampage,
killing
12
of
their
classmates
and
one
teacher,
and
then
the
shooters
killed
themselves.
The
massacre
was
the
bloodiest
school
shooting
in
U.S.
history.
Similar
type
of
brutal
killing
sprees
have
plagued
our
schools
long
before
Columbine,
and
as
we
have
recently
seen,
still
continue
to
threaten
the
lives
of
students
and
educators
in
unpredicted
areas
throughout
the
United
States.
The
recent
shooting
that
occurred
on
the
campus
on
Northern
Illinois
University
on
Valentines
Day,
Thursday,
February
14,
2008
was
the
4th
shooting
to
occur
on a
United
States
Campus
in
the
that
same
week.
The
history
of
violent
crimes
leading
to
death
has
been
on
the
rise
since
1985.
Below,
I
have
listed
a
detailed
account
of
some
of
those
occurrences
Oct.
2,
2006:
Charles
Carl
Roberts,
32,
took
10
girls
hostage
in
an
Amish
school
in
Nickel
Mines,
Pa.,
killing
five
of
them
before
killing
himself.
Sept.
29,
2006:
Eric
H.,
15,
took
two
guns
into
his
Cazenovia,
WI.,
school
and
fatally
shot
the
principal
before
being
captured
and
arrested.
Sept.
27,
2006:
Duane
Morrison,
53,
took
six
girls
hostage
at
Platte
Canyon
High
School
in
Bailey,
Co.,
molesting
them
and
holding
them
for
hours
before
fatally
shooting
one
girl
and
then
himself.
Nov.
8,
2005:
Assistant
principal
Ken
Bruce
was
killed
and
two
other
administrators
seriously
wounded
when
Kenny
B.,
a
15-year-old
student,
opened
fire
in a
Jacksboro,
Tennessee
high
school.
Mar
21,
2005:
Jeff
W.,
16,
shot
to
death
his
grandfather
and
his
grandfather's
girlfriend
and
then
went
to
his
high
school
in
Red
Lake,
Minnesota,
where
he
killed
a
security
guard,
a
teacher,
and
five
students,
and
wounded
seven
others,
before
killing
himself.
Feb.
11,
2004:
Ten-year-old
Faheem
C.
was
shot
in
the
face
outside
T.M.
Peirce
Elementary
School
in
Philadelphia.
He
died
six
days
after
the
shooting.
He
was
caught
in a
shootout
between
two
rival
gangs.
The
gun
battle
unleashed
nearly
100
shots
in
the
area
as
children
were
arriving
at
the
school.
A
school
crossing
guard
was
also
injured.
Two
men
were
arrested
for
the
shooting.
Sept.
26,
2003:
A
13-year-old
boy
fired
a 9
mm
semiautomatic
handgun
into
the
ceiling
of a
Cleveland
County,
North
Carolina,
middle
school.
He
also
fired
one
shot
into
the
closed
door
of a
classroom
filled
with
students.
April
29,
2002
-
17-year-old
Dragoslav
P.,
opened
fire
with
a
handgun
shortly
after
noon
at
his
high
school
in
Vlasenica,
Bosnia-Herzegovina,
killing
one
teacher
and
wounding
another
before
taking
his
own
life.
Apr.
26,
2002
-
19-year-old
Robert
Steinhaeuser,
who
had
been
expelled
from
Johann
Gutenberg
high
school
in
Erfurt,
Germany,
returned
to
the
school
and
shot
to
death
13
teachers,
two
students
and
a
police
officer
before
killing
himself.
Mar.
5,
2001:
15-year-old
Charles
W.,
was
arrested
for
killing
two
classmates,
and
wounding
13
other
people,
at
Santana
High
School
in
Santee,
Calif.
May
21,
1998:
Two
students
were
killed
and
more
than
20
other
people
wounded
when
Kip
K.,
15,
opened
fire
at
Thurston
High
School's
cafeteria
in
Springfield,
Ore.
Earlier
that
day,
he
killed
his
parents.
He
had
been
expelled
the
day
before
for
bringing
a
gun
to
school.
March
30,
1997:
Mohammad
Ahmad
al-Naziri,
48,
armed
with
an
assault
rifle,
opened
fire
on
hundreds
of
students
at
two
school
in
Sanaa,
Yemen.
May
1,
1992:
Eric
Houston,
20,
killed
four
people
and
wounded
10
in a
siege
at
his
former
high
school
in
Olivehurst,
Ca.
The
attack
was
said
to
be
in
retaliation
for
a
failing
grade.
Houston
was
convicted
and
sentenced
to
death.
Jan.
17,
1989:
Patrick
Purdy,
26,
armed
with
an
AK-47
assault
rifle,
opened
fire
on a
play
ground
at a
Stockton,
Ca.,
elementary
school.
Five
children
died
and
29
children
and
one
teacher
were
wounded
before
Purdy
killed
himself.
Jan.
21,
1985:
James
Alan
Kearbey,
14,
armed
with
a
M1-A
semi
automatic
rifle
and
a
.357-caliber
handgun,
killed
the
principal
and
wounded
two
teachers
and
a
student
at
his
Goddard
(Kansas)
Junior
high
school.
He
pleaded
no
contest
and
served
seven
years
in a
state
youth
facility.
It's
time
for
this
modern
day
mayhem
to
STOP!
To
assure
that
every
United
States’
school
has
an
adequate,
customized
safety
plan
in
place,
Tony
Newsom,
Police
Officer,
School
Safety
Expert
and
author
of
The
Student
Safety
Tips
Series,
has
decided
to
provide
his
customizable
"School
Safety
&
Emergency
Evacuation
Plan"
as a
blueprint
outline
so
that
they
can
customize
their
own
plan.
With
simple
step
by
step
instructions,
this
Blueprint
will
help
administrators
to
think
outside
of
the
box
as
well
as
to
be
steps
ahead
should
a
potential
catastrophe
occur.
Tony
feels
very
compelled
to
assist
in
providing
adequate
safety
guidance
to
as
many
schools
as
possible.
The
only
way
to
significantly
minimize
the
impact
of
an
on
campus
catastrophe
is
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chaos
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Emergency
Evacuation
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