WingsOverTX
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Main points & some excerpts:
First, no one picked up on the many signals from the shooter of his potentially horrific intent.
Second, school officials grossly violated control of access to the building.
Third, despite the shooting going on outside, no lockdown was signaled inside the school.
Fourth, and probably most telling, no one mounted an effective response onsite.
There must be a system that we call
“crawl” (talking individual teachers through necessary actions in their classrooms),
“walk” (slow-going drills that are evaluated and critiqued), and
“run” (full-on drills that add some stress factors such as speed and noise).
Administrators must ensure that this is done, both when the system is initiated and on an ongoing basis. These actions find weak spots and build reflexive responses that move fast and with positive effect. If you don’t execute the plan, it’s guaranteed not to work.
All the mistakes still could be “rescued” by initiative and courage. Sadly, that was missing also. The response collapsed completely.
We must learn from Uvalde.
Implementing the four steps of
Preemptive Actions,
Access Control,
Securing Classrooms, and
Effective Response can help now.
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