{"id":2699,"date":"2023-05-25T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2023-05-25T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:02:46","slug":"thinking-about-the-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/thinking-about-the-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about the unthinkable &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a tragic reality that school shootings and gun-related incidents on campus are an increasing concern. Regardless of your community&#8217;s views on &#8220;prevention&#8221; (which vary widely), schools must always have an effective plan in place to deal with such a crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my &#8220;Physical Environment of Schools&#8221; class, we explore this topic in depth. However, over the years I&#8217;ve discovered that although most schools have at least a rudimentary plan in place for the crisis itself, there&#8217;s often only minimal planning for what to do afterwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dealing with the aftermath of a crisis is a huge part of being prepared! This <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/corp.smartbrief.com\/original\/2023\/05\/school-safety-after-shooting?utm_term=0D8D01C3-DCB4-4CFF-B855-A92CDA28919B&amp;utm_campaign=3E572E12-3FBC-11D5-AD13-000244141872&amp;utm_content=F317EE74-F91A-48C6-8325-B50E518F8987&amp;utm_source=brief\" target=\"_blank\">reflection by an Idaho superintendent<\/a> serves to illustrate that. Since this event didn&#8217;t end with multiple deaths, it didn&#8217;t make the national news &#8230; but even in a &#8220;less severe&#8221; incident like this, there are significant consequences.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully this post will not only encourage you to review your school&#8217;s active shooter plans, but also provide a few additional ideas for dealing what follows should your community experience one of these tragic events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tragic reality that school shootings and gun-related incidents on campus are an increasing concern. Regardless of your community&#8217;s views on &#8220;prevention&#8221; (which vary widely), schools must always have an effective plan in place to deal with such a crisis. During my &#8220;Physical Environment of Schools&#8221; class, we explore this topic in depth. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[496,116,494,495],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chad-martin","tag-school-safety","tag-school-shootings","tag-training","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}