Project Citizen Paper

Is your school safe? School safety is a pressing matter that should be taken care of across the nation. There are five different forms of school safety. The first is building safety. Building safety is about the security at the entrances and exits. The second type of school safety is emotional and social safety. Emotional and social safety is protection of a students feelings and how others affect them. The third type of safety in schools is

Edgewood Middle School has policies and procedures for all forms of safety. For building safety the school has a camera by the front door with a buzzer that has to be unlocked by the person in the main office. All doors are locked during school hours, unless it is field day or their is a special occasion. In a letter from Dr. Behlow, he said “Each of our schools has eight security cameras around the exterior perimeter of the building which record activity 24 hours a day, seven days a week”. It goes without saying that building safety at Edgewood Middle School is a top priority.

The procedures for drills at Edgewood MIddle School are taken very seriously. During a fire drill when the alarm goes off, the fire department and police are immediately notified, and all students go to the nearest teacher. The teachers lines her kids up in a single file line and the last person out the door turns off the lights. The teacher then silently takes her students to their class's assigned area outside the building. The students then stand outside quietly while the teachers make sure no one is left in the building. Once the fire department clears the school as safe everyone re enters and the day continues.

Another drill at Edgewood is a tornado drill. During a tornado drill Does a bell go off? Then all stud...

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...gy safety is everything from cyber bullying to looking up inappropriate things. Edgewood has made cyber bullying very hard. The administrator has shut down messaging on google docs as to not allow someone to communicate rude conversation. The only other way that cyber bullying can happen using Edgewood technology is if someone forgets to log out their email and someone else bullies that person or someone else through their account.

The other part of technology safety is searching inappropriate things. At the end of the year all computers are checked for non educational links. They then noarrow it down to a certain amount of people in a certain class that could have searched the inappropriate link.

The last type of school safety is concussion safety. The definition of a concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. When someone at school