Dorchester School District 2 students will head back to school Thursday, August 8.To prepare, the district has armed itself with new security measures to ensure
To prepare, the district has armed itself with new security measures to ensure the safety of its students, faculty, and staff. "Times have changed where, you know, educating kids was our number one priority, but you can't learn if you're not in a safe environment," Director of Security Preston Giet said.
As the new school year kicks off, students and parents can rest easy knowing safety will be Dorchester School District 2’s top priority."'Insensitive' Facebook post by Florence school upsets mother: 'Who thought this through?'" "The biggest thing is awareness and communication and consistency," DD2 Superintendent Dr. Shane Robbins said. Taking a comprehensive approach, DD2 implemented a weapons detection system, a firearm detection K9 unit, and school resource officers. Giet says before these tactics were put in place, the school district would see one or two guns brought to school per school year. "We implemented our weapons detection units and Chester at about the same time last year, and after that time in the school year, we did not see a single gun incident," Giet said."Berkeley County Schools releases increased bus driver pay scale for '24-'25 school year" "It's a big year for us. We recently passed our $200 million referendum, so we're looking at making a lot of safety and security upgrades to our district," Giet said. Giet says the district is upgrading their radio systems, adding more weapon detection systems to the middle schools, and instituting a new management system called Raptor. "That allows anybody in our schools, any adult in our schools to implement one of our safety protocols via an app, so they have an app on their phone, they can hit you know, lockdown if they see something and it immediately alerts everybody in the school that we need to go on lockdown. In conjunction with that we are instituting Raptor as our visitor management system as well. So, we'll have a pretty good tab on whoever's in our schools," Giet said."Starting the school year off, you always want to start on a positive note. Start now with establishing a good line of communication with your kid," Giet said.Both students and parents can anonymously make reports to the security team, and they work with law enforcement to stop things before they happen."North Charleston police, the Town of Summerville and Dorchester County all provide SROs for our schools. At the moment. We're fully staffed," Giet said. "We have multiple SROs cause they're such large buildings. We also have at our high schools un-uniformed district, um, employed safety personnel. Most of those individuals are probably former law enforcement officers that are retired," Dr. Robbins said.
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