Increased Security at Utica Schools May be New Normal
Heightened security measures implemented by Utica Community Schools following the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting are expected to remain in place through early 2013.
Three weeks, including a holiday break, have passed in Utica Community Schools since the school shooting in Newtown, CT, but security remains at an all-time high throughout the district. Utica, like countless districts across the state and country, heightened its security in the days following the shooting. Those measures are due to remain in place until further notice, wrote UCS Superintendent Dr. Christine M. Johns in a Dec. 21 letter to parents. Indeed, as students and staff returned to school this week following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, security remained visibly heightened. “Eisenhower security is still enforced to a great amount,” wrote Ike student Lorenzo Santavicca on Shelby-Utica’s Facebook page. “From being greeted …
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12:17 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
OK..Now let's talk the truth about UCS security procedures....The truth is.... UCS adinistration wants security... up unto the time that it becomes an inconvenience to a teacher or to a coach. If they want an entrance door left open for whatever reason you had better believe that door WILL be left wide open. Coaches want the doors left open so the players can go back and forth to the locker rooms… more ›