NJ Forum Addresses School Safety After Newtown
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt
School is about teaching more than just English, math and science. It is also about building character, modeling behavior and nurturing all children. “What we do today and what we do after today honors the children of Newtown, but more importantly it honors the children in our schools today,” said Dr. Maurice Elias, director of clinical training at the Rutgers University Department of Psychology, a nationally recognized expert in community and preventive psychology and school intervention. Elias was the keynote speaker at a New Jersey School Boards Association forum, “Safe and Secure Schools: Perspectives after Newtown,” at The College of New Jersey on Friday morning. Hundreds of parents, educators, school board members and law enforcement…
william pepitone
4:57 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
Having read the recent article on school safety we have to realize that we are not living in a perfect world anymore but locking doors and securring the structure is fine but will not stop someone with the intention of hurting people.Having been in law inforcement for over thirty five years it is unrealistic to believe that making the building safe will cure all ills, I believe that there should … more ›