Andre's Banquets & Catering sponsored the Mehlville School District's town hall meeting on Feb. 7. Superintendent Eric Knost highlighted the district’s current security practices, what’s changed since Sandy Hook, and what’s left to examine.
Thursday’s Mehlville School District town hall meeting provided a chance for parents to voice their questions and concerns—not surprisingly, several of them focused on school safety. Superintendent Eric Knost has been at the forefront of many of these conversations in the past two months, and took the lead in responding to questions during the meeting, held at Andre’s Banquet Hall. He highlighted the district’s current security practices, what’s changed since Sandy Hook, and what’s left to evaluate. “It’s never okay to say ‘odds are,’ and ‘will never happen here,’” Knost said of the district’s need to be proactive. In addition to making sure staff members who handle the schools’ buzzer systems received additional training on visitor …
Share ideas and concerns for school security with Superintendent Eric Knost and the rest of the Board of Education on Feb. 7.
School safety concerns will be the topic of an upcoming town hall meeting in the Mehlville School District. Superintendent Eric Knost recalled during the Board of Education's Jan. 10 meeting how safety procedures changed "post-Columbine," and said he believed the Newtown, CT, shooting would have a similar effect in terms of forcing schools to re-examine how they keep students safe. Knost proposed an increased police presence at district elementary schools during peak hours, and the board unanimously approved $35,000 to staff four secondary officers through the rest of the school year. Several board members expressed interest in continuing the school safety conversation. Board member Rich Franz suggested they extend the invitation to …
The school board unanimously approved St. Louis County police officers to work hourly during high-traffic times at the district's 10 elementary schools.
Mehlville elementary schools will have an increased police presence for the rest of the school year. Since the Newtown, CT, shooting, Mehlville School District Superintendent Eric Knost has participated in several conversations focused on student and staff safety. In addition to examining current policies, he’s also looked into methods of deterring incidents within schools. “Things have settled down significantly, but clearly the conversation has to go forward,” he said. The sentiment was echoed Thursday night at the district’s Board of Education meeting. "My wife works in a school, she would have been right there in the hallway had it happened at that school, I know that, and that scared me. I still have kids in the district," board …
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10:31 am on Friday, February 8, 2013
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