More than nine months have passed since the December 14, 2012, school shooting attack upon Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Newtown, Connecticut, school district where 20 children and 6 school staff members were left dead. The horrific nature of the attack upon our youngest and most vulnerable children — elementary students — served as […]
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Do ALICE training tactics put students, teachers at risk?
Posted by Ken Trump on June 14, 2013
Questions about student and teacher safety continue to mount as some schools deploy questionable drill tactics in which children and teachers are instructed to throw things at, and to attack, armed gunmen. The tactics stem from the controversial “Counter” component of the A.L.I.C.E. Training program, which stands for Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate. Questionable tactics stemming from A.L.I.C.E. training In recent months, […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 7 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school crisis planning, school crisis training, school resource officers, school shootings
Psychologist: ALICE training is an ‘overreaction and potentially dangerous’
Posted by Ken Trump on March 29, 2013
A.L.I.C.E. training — teaching students to attack armed gunmen — is “an overreaction and potentially dangerous,” according to Dr. Stephen Brock of the National Association of School Psychologists. The A.L.I.C.E. program, which stands for Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate, is described as “controversial” in a March 28th article by Mother Jones writer Deanna Pan entitled, “Schools are training second-graders to […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 17 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight
School police association rejects training students to attack armed intruders
Posted by Ken Trump on December 13, 2012
The national association representing school-based police officers does NOT endorse the idea of teaching students to throw objects and attack armed intruders, its executive director confirmed earlier today. The association also does NOT endorse the idea of teaching school-based police officers to teach students to throw objects and attack armed intruders. Mo Canady, Executive Director […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 12 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, NASRO, run-hide-fight, school crisis training, school resource officers, school shootings
School board, superintendent reject ALICE student training to attack armed intruders
Posted by Ken Trump on December 9, 2012
The Canton (MA) school board and superintendent on Thursday rejected moving forward with training students to attack armed intruders under what a Boston Globe article called a “controversial new security protocol” known as A.L.I.C.E. training. “We are not ready to go beyond the point of training staff,” the Globe quoted Superintendent Jeffrey Granatino as saying […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools Parents and School Safety School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 17 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school resource officers
Do schools, police mislead parents on ALICE training? Students attack armed gunmen
Posted by Ken Trump on November 13, 2012
Some schools and police are teaching students to attack armed gunmen. But are they soft-pedaling the program and misleading parents in the process? A.L.I.C.E. stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. The “counter” component of teaching school students to throw objects at armed intruders and to physically attack them is being question by many experienced educators […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools Parents and School Safety School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 7 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school crisis training, school resource officers, school shootings
School police expert: ALICE training is a safety, liability risk
Posted by Ken Trump on November 12, 2012
A veteran national expert on school-based police today called teaching school students to attack armed intruders a safety and liability risk for school boards and superintendents, as well as law enforcement agencies. “A.L.I.C.E. training should be a huge red flag for school and police administrators, especially in the liability arena. Both the legal staff and […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 1 Comment »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school crisis training, school resource officers, school shootings
5 ALICE training myths: Students attacking armed intruders
Posted by Ken Trump on November 11, 2012
As A.L.I.C.E. training advocates work to sell their program to school boards and superintendents, five myths continue to circulate about the program and its concept of teaching children to attack armed intruders. A.L.I.C.E. stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. The “counter” component of teaching school students to throw objects at armed intruders and to physically attack them is garnering […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths Students and School Safety | 5 Comments »
Tags: ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school crisis training, school resource officers
Origin & rejection of ALICE Training: Kids fighting armed gunmen
Posted by Ken Trump on December 27, 2011
Most school leaders probably don’t know that the component of ALICE training in which children are taught to attack armed intruders in schools was actually rejected by the school district in which the model originated in 2006. A.L.I.C.E. (Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate) Training is a program being advocated in a small but noticeable number of school-communities. Along with others in education and […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training | 6 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school crisis training
Parent questions: ALICE Training & teaching kids to fight gunmen
Posted by Ken Trump on November 28, 2011
Most of us who are parents agree that safety is more important than academics at our schools. We entrust educators with our children for a good chunk of time each school day. We demand that they take reasonable steps to protect our kids, and expect that they use good common sense in doing so. Yet […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools Parents and School Safety School Law and Liability School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training School Security Officers / Security Departments Students and School Safety | 22 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight
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