Be prepared, not scared. All school staff and students need to be ready to respond to emergencies

Guest columnist Stephen Sroka argues that effective school safety strategies should prioritize working with people over relying solely on physical hardware. He emphasizes the importance of preparing staff and students for emergency responses.
We should ask what works best for school safety. The answer may be that the most effective strategies are built-in working with people, and not so much tacked-on working with physical hardware, writes guest columnist Stephen Sroka, who has worked with school violence for 40 years and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
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