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Tyler Norris, a school resource officer for for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, stands guard at the front entrance of Satchel Ford Elementary School.<\/p>\n
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Kevin Hasinger, the principal of Satchel Ford, met with his faculty in the wake of the Florida mass shooting.<\/p>\n
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A Richland County Sheriff’s Department police vehicle is prominent in the school’s parking lot.<\/p>\n
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The SRO program, facilitated by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, is designed to provide a variety of support programs and services to students and staff.<\/p>\n
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Satchel Ford Elementary School is located in Forest Acres.<\/p>\n
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In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Midlands school district officials are asking a simple question: \u201cWhat more can we do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Kevin Hasinger, 42, the principal of Satchel Ford Elementary, went over security protocols with his staff \u2014 again \u2014 following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory\u00a0Stonemason\u00a0Douglas, and the deaths of 17 students\u00a0still weighing heavily on his mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell my teachers, \u2018Don\u2019t let your vigilance slip.\u2019 That one time you forget to lock the door when you go outside might be the time something happens,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
Now, he is worried about what is, in his opinion, the biggest security risk at his school \u2014 the playground. It is surrounded by a low-lying fence and is adjacent to a public road.<\/p>\n
Hasinger has continued to remain proactive, and has submitted a request for funding to his school district, Richland 1, to raise the fence.<\/p>\n
Hasinger is adamant about making sure doors on his campus remained locked at all times, including locking all interior classroom doors. He believes limiting the school\u2019s access points is the key to keeping things tight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are people in this world who will work very hard to do bad things,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
After the shooting, Hasinger sent out a telephone voice memo to parents, seeking to reassure them of the district\u2019s safety efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have lockdown drills twice a year, and practice face-to-face training with teachers regularly to help them know what to do in the event of a crisis,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
Those parents will likely be a part of a national conversation about how best to protect America\u2019s school-aged children. The survivors of the Florida shooting have already met with President Trump and members of the Florida legislature, igniting a debate on gun control that isn\u2019t expected to go away.<\/p>\n
Thousands of students across the nation marched on March 24 in Washington, D.C., and other cities to protest gun violence and school shootings. The NRA has said it will not support any ban on assault rifles, citing Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n
Trump, along with the National Rifle Association, the nation\u2019s largest gun lobbyist group, has advocated arming teachers, coaches and administrators to protect schools.<\/p>\n
Hasinger believes equipping teachers with guns would be more hazardous for both teachers and students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe potential increase for injury is greater than the threat of a school shooting,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
Satchel Ford Elementary, located in Forest Acres, is part of the Richland 1 school district, and is the only district in South Carolina to have armed security resource officers on every campus, Hasinger said. The Richland County Sheriff\u2019s Department operates the district\u2019s school resource officer program.<\/p>\n
Because of lack of state and federal regulation requiring schools to have a SRO, districts vary greatly in policy. Each school district is responsible for providing the funds for employing the officers. This results in discrepancies between neighboring districts, and even schools, in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn North Carolina, where I was an assistant principal at a high school, there was one SRO for every five schools. We would be lucky to see them twice a week,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
But even Hasinger knows that maintaining safety requires more than just relying on outside security. That’s why he gave his staff a security refresher \u2013 something he routinely does after incidents like Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to not be afraid to talk about it. It takes a community to keep a school safe. If you see something, say something,\u201d Hasinger said.<\/p>\n
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