Evacuation drill planned for Oct. 17
October 3, 2008
By Amy Flis
<aflis@hilite.org>
There is an evacuation drill scheduled for SRT on Oct. 17. This marks the third year that the school has conducted the drill as part of the ongoing effort to enhance safety measures at this school.
According to Principal John Williams, the drills have been very successful.
“Last year within about 23 minutes the administrators could account for all of our kids. Imagine how valuable that would be (in a crisis situation),” Williams said.
According to Williams, the purpose of the drill is to get students and staff in a safe place and be able to account for them if the building was for any reason uninhabitable. “We’d want to know who’s here, who’s not,” Williams said. “Prior to three years ago, we would have had no idea.”
Senior Jonathan Waldon said that as a student, the drill is not very important to him.
“The administration is just trying to be able to get all of us out if something like Columbine happens here,” Waldon said. However, he also said that such an event is “not at all” likely to occur at this school.
Although the drill is not required by the state, Williams said he expects that the school will continue to run the drill for at least the rest of his time here as administrator and likely many more years. He said that administrators and parents are comforted by this extra preparation.
“If you want people to do something in a crisis, you have to practice it,” Williams said. “Even if you do it only once, the odds of you getting it right in a crisis go way up.”
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