OLM School Assesses Safety Plans; Police To Tour All EG Schools
In the wake of the Newtown shootings a week ago, plans are beginning to take shape to review safety procedures at all EG schools, preschools and daycares.
Our Lady of Mercy School, the only K-8 private school in East Greenwich, is reviewing its safety procedures just as the EG public schools are doing in the wake of last week's devastating shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. According to OLM Principal Sister Jeanne Barry, R.S.M., the school already had many things in place, including a buzzer at the front door, and it follows the state's dictate of 15 drills a year. "We follow all the state regulations," said Barry. "We’ve had a buzzer there for years and the doors [to the outside] are kept locked." The front door at OLM has a camera trained on it but no intercom – a problem on a rainy day, when people might be wearing hoods, she said. "With the intercom, we could …
Elizabeth McNamara
9:20 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
You may be right, Kim. I've taken that part out. Thanks! more ›