The Gun-Free Schools Act is also examined, and the major challenges communities face in correcting school safety problems are addressed. Superintendents should revamp policies and practices and think twice before suspending or expelling students. A sidebar summarizes relevant federal law. It urges parent supervision and determination of effectiveness of technological, regulatory, environmental, and behavioral interventions. Summoning police officers to help investigate the report of an armed student is the prudent and safe thing for school officials to do.
Police officers receive extensive training in dealing with armed subjects.
School staff training should include all staff members and should provide information about where to report, how to report, and to whom. The guide contains four activities that involve class discussions and small-group work. Student handouts are provided. The active learning approach encourages students to go beyond recognition or knowledge of facts to begin analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the issues and concepts being studied. Hearing on S. 1882, A Bill To Amend Title 18, United States Code, To Promote the Safe Use of Guns and To Reduce Gun Violence before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary.