San Diego-area schools respond to ‘horrific’ Texas shooting

SAN DIEGO — Faculties across the nation, together with the San Diego space, felt the influence of Tuesday’s lethal gunfire at a Texas elementary faculty, the place state officers say a minimum of 19 youngsters and two adults, certainly one of whom was a instructor, had been killed.

A number of faculties in San Diego County despatched letters to college students, lecturers and employees following the tragic incident, providing their sympathies to the victims whereas additionally offering security plans for the tutorial communities.

Poway Unified Faculty District expressed the problem of processing the “mindless lack of so many lives,” explaining that their focus is to maintain PUSD college students and employees secure.

“Whereas faculties stay among the many most secure locations for college kids, we additionally know that at present’s capturing might trigger heightened concern about issues of safety,” Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps said. “Over time, PUSD has adopted a multi-pronged strategy to high school security. Each PUSD faculty has a security plan and procedures that contribute to sustaining a secure studying surroundings for our college students.”

Moises G. Aguirre, superintendent of Sweetwater Union Excessive Faculty District, mentioned youngsters at the moment are seeking to adults for “help, reassurance and a secure studying surroundings.”

“Scholar and employees security is our prime precedence. All our complete security initiatives are grounded
within the agency perception that college security is a mixture of bodily and psychological security. We
profit from a number of layers of packages and partnerships with native, county and federal regulation
enforcement in addition to with county training and psychological well being organizations and suppliers,” Aguirre continued.

On the school stage, San Diego State College known as the lethal capturing in Uvalde a “horrific crime, concentrating on a number of the most valuable members of our group.”

“Irrespective of the place you’re or what you’re at the moment experiencing, particularly given these latest incidents throughout the nation, do not forget that help providers and help is accessible to all college students, college and employees. They’re obtainable to you at present. They are going to be obtainable to you tomorrow. Please, depend on our college sources as wanted, which incorporates counseling, tutorial, work-related and emergency help,” SDSU President Adela de la Torre mentioned.

Additionally, PUSD in addition to SUHSD shall be offering help with their faculties’ administrative crew for these in want.