Struthers schools to add 'safety buckets,' triage kits to classrooms
STRUTHERS
Safety buckets and lockdown kits could be the norm in Struthers classrooms within the next year.
One of the superintendent’s safety initiatives for this academic year is to raise money to create safety buckets and triage kits to put in classrooms.
“This would be another tool that an adult in the classroom would have to help kids get through any potential crisis,” said Struthers Superintendent Joseph Nohra.
Nohra said the school’s core team that discusses school safety already met this fall to discuss plans for the safety buckets. He said the school likely will have to host a fundraiser for the buckets. At the moment, though, he said plans for the buckets are in the early stages.
Yvonne Wilson, director of diversion and safety at Struthers schools, said the emergency buckets likely will contain first-aid supplies, sugar for kids who might be diabetic and water bottles, to name a few things. She said the buckets could be “helpful for kids in lockdown situations for long periods of time.”
Wilson added that since the Sandy Hook incident in 2012, the district has been looking at new ways to keep kids safe in case of a crisis.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., was the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school in U.S. history. Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot 20 children and six staff members before killing himself.
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