Above Legislation Bills: great improvement,
yet...
yet...
From listening to students, parents, educators and law enforcement personnel needs, Safer Schools Team members have sought legislation inclusion of the following three requests to proactively safeguard students, school personnel, & SROs.
Safer Schools' three requests seriously are addressed with accountability in some NC school systems.
Why not in GCS?
Why not in all NC school systems?
Why not in all NC school systems?
Safer Schools' Requests made to NC Legislators & NCAE (NC Association of Educators)/NCRSP (NC Retired School Personnel):
1) Include oral and written threats of violence in the School Law Enforcement Report Form and publicly report this information on the monthly school board agenda.
2) Institute a Violence Risk Threat Assessment, a process in which school administrator, law enforcement, mental health counselor, & teacher(s)/employee(s) involved TOGETHER investigate, examine, evaluate and report the threat.
3) Enact PROACTIVE legislation similar to VA Code 18.2-60: VA Teacher Association and VA legislators passed AFTER the VA Tech massacre: at school or school activities, oral threats of bodily harm are a Misdemeanor 1; written threats of bodily harm are a Felony 6
NC House Bill 1078: ensures that acts of violence at school or school activities are reported to law enforcement and to school superintendent: signed fall, 2009
NC HB 1078 is a beginning. It governs Principals to report to Law Enforcement, but it isn’t clear on the “immediately” part. It is re-active, not pro-active. It does not address written or verbal threats of violence, threats of bodily harm or death.
NC Senate Bill 707: signed 7-2012; adds improvement to HB 1078; does not include Safer Schools' above three requests
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What is the reasoning and in whose best interest is it to avoid/omit accountability of Safer Schools' above three requests?
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