Area school districts trying to take steps to protect students
By Tim MitchellRebecca Mabry
Sunday December 3, 2006
Robin Scholz
School resource officer Alicia Maxey, a Champaign County sheriff's deputy, poses with a flip chart she developed for potential emergencies at St. Joseph-Ogden High School.
Lockdown. A chilling word.
Years ago, it was used in the context of prison riots.
Today, school teachers and principals keep lockdown plans in their desks – not to confine riots, but to respond to an armed intruder in the hallways.
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