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Safety Drills | 2023-20024
October 16, 2023
Dear NECSD students, families, faculty, and staff,
The safety and well-being of your child(ren) is our highest priority. We are writing this letter to inform you about safety drills that will be conducted throughout the school year. As drills are conducted, we will do our best to send a robo call to the primary number listed for your child(ren) alerting you that a drill occurred that day in your child’s school. You may want to follow up with your child on days that you know their school practiced a drill.
Safety drills are in preparation of a threat targeting the school and are in accordance with the Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act (Project SAVE). The SAVE law was enacted in 2000 in an effort to improve school safety.
This year, all drills will be announced in the fall and unannounced in the spring. The manner in which students and teachers participate in these drills helps our safety personnel and school administrators reflect and understand how we can better prepare each school for emergency situations. These drills may be upsetting for your child, regardless of how the drill is conducted. Your child may have questions or wish to express their emotions about the potential dangers in the world. According to the age and level of understanding, answer your child’s questions honestly. Try to be sensitive to their desire to communicate, while listening to and accepting their feelings. Please contact one of the Pupil Personnel teams in your building if you need assistance with conversations about their feelings and/or emotions.
Ask your children to review the response(s) they were taught during the drill to help them remember how to respond to potential emergency situations. You may want to take this time to also review safety procedures in your home and while out in public spaces.
Please help us remind your child to speak to an adult if they ever see or hear of any threat to their school or feel that something isn’t right. We each play an important role in keeping our schools safe.
More information regarding safety in our schools can be found in the 2023-2024 District Safety Plan on the district website.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jackielyn Manning Campbell Matthew Tindall
Superintendent Director of Safety and Security
ATTENTION: Are your scholars or colleagues doing something great? Please contact the district Communications Team at communications@necsd.net. We’d love to visit your class or event and/or post your pictures and recap to highlight the amazing accomplishments throughout our district!
