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Jackson MS. March 30 2008
Robert Laird, director of the division of school safety in the Mississippi Department of Education, said the once-a-year class trains the officers in last-resort control techniques for disturbances.
“There was a lot of pressure after Pearl to put an SSO (school safety officer) or SRO (school resource officer) in every school,” Laird said.
In 1997, Pearl High student Luke Woodham first murdered his mother and then drove to school and killed his ex-girlfriend and her friend. He wounded seven others.
The number of trained security personnel is markedly increased over even a decade ago, when Mississippi had 14 school resource officers and no school safety officers. But Laird said educators and communities really need to make that kind of decision school by school, based on what they think will be most effective.
Mississippi has 378 school resource officers – sworn police officers trained to work in schools – and 317 school security officers. There are other security guards employed by schools, but the state doesn’t certify them and therefore takes no responsibility for how they respond to school incidents.
With the “transport holds” she learned, Chellie Brinson took control a much larger Joseph Daughtry Sr., a police officer. Pair by pair, the school safety officers in the class practiced on each other, sometimes concentrating hard to get the positioning right. Other times, they laughed at their first awkward attempts. But as they learned each new hold, they gained confidence and competence, Laird said.
People who work in school security don’t have to get the class certification, but it can help. They learn laws about what they can and can’t do, get pepper sprayed so they know what it feels like if it ever happens on the job, learn about what to do if the school has a bomb threat and learn restraint techniques.
In late 2006, a Greenwood police officer pulled a gun on an unarmed student after the two got into an altercation. Laird said that officer had not gone through the state’s training, so the state could not help that district.
Laird, who jokingly called himself “the top kindergarten cop in the state,” said those who are trained are special because they are the only members of the education profession who take an oath of office and have a code of ethics. They are the first ones on the scene of a school emergency and know the students better than all other emergency responders.
“These people will track a kid through school. … They see the end result, good or bad,” Laird said. “People want to know if their kids are safe at school.”
Frank Brown, a school safety officer in the Greenville Public School District, said he liked learning how to get better control of students if he needs to.
But one of the most helpful things they did, he said, was take CPR earlier in the week. One of his students has seizures, and now he knows how to handle it when that happens.
He watched others to see how they reacted to the pepper spray.
“I don’t want to comment on that,” Brown said, laughing. “If I gotta get sprayed, I gotta get sprayed. It’s going to burn, I know that.”
Robert Laird, director of the division of school safety in the Mississippi Department of Education, said the once-a-year class trains the officers in last-resort control techniques for disturbances.
“There was a lot of pressure after Pearl to put an SSO (school safety officer) or SRO (school resource officer) in every school,” Laird said.
In 1997, Pearl High student Luke Woodham first murdered his mother and then drove to school and killed his ex-girlfriend and her friend. He wounded seven others.
The number of trained security personnel is markedly increased over even a decade ago, when Mississippi had 14 school resource officers and no school safety officers. But Laird said educators and communities really need to make that kind of decision school by school, based on what they think will be most effective.
Mississippi has 378 school resource officers – sworn police officers trained to work in schools – and 317 school security officers. There are other security guards employed by schools, but the state doesn’t certify them and therefore takes no responsibility for how they respond to school incidents.
With the “transport holds” she learned, Chellie Brinson took control a much larger Joseph Daughtry Sr., a police officer. Pair by pair, the school safety officers in the class practiced on each other, sometimes concentrating hard to get the positioning right. Other times, they laughed at their first awkward attempts. But as they learned each new hold, they gained confidence and competence, Laird said.
People who work in school security don’t have to get the class certification, but it can help. They learn laws about what they can and can’t do, get pepper sprayed so they know what it feels like if it ever happens on the job, learn about what to do if the school has a bomb threat and learn restraint techniques.
In late 2006, a Greenwood police officer pulled a gun on an unarmed student after the two got into an altercation. Laird said that officer had not gone through the state’s training, so the state could not help that district.
Laird, who jokingly called himself “the top kindergarten cop in the state,” said those who are trained are special because they are the only members of the education profession who take an oath of office and have a code of ethics. They are the first ones on the scene of a school emergency and know the students better than all other emergency responders.
“These people will track a kid through school. … They see the end result, good or bad,” Laird said. “People want to know if their kids are safe at school.”
Frank Brown, a school safety officer in the Greenville Public School District, said he liked learning how to get better control of students if he needs to.
But one of the most helpful things they did, he said, was take CPR earlier in the week. One of his students has seizures, and now he knows how to handle it when that happens.
He watched others to see how they reacted to the pepper spray.
“I don’t want to comment on that,” Brown said, laughing. “If I gotta get sprayed, I gotta get sprayed. It’s going to burn, I know that.”
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