School Officials Reaffirm Safety Measures in Wake of Newtown Shooting
Braintree schools remain on heightened alert nearly a month out from the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
As students and teachers from Sandy Hook Elementary have begun to settle into their new school, a few miles south of the site of the Dec. 14 shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators, districts across the country continue to look at how they can improve school safety. In Braintree, one immediate action was to shift police resources already available so that each elementary school began receiving unannounced visits from officers, who instead of driving through the property or stopping in the driveway now park and walk through the schools. That shift, along with the locked doors and buzz-in system at every Braintree school put in place after Columbine, gives Mayor Joseph Sullivan confidence that the perimeters of …
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