Secure uses the security of the physical facility to act as protection to deny entry. Secure Drill: A response action schools take to secure the perimeter of school buildings and grounds during incidents that pose a threat or hazard outside of the school building. Drill examples include evacuating for a fire or locking down from an internal threat. ![]() An active aggressor is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. Drills do not include persons role playing as active aggressors or other simulated threats. *These definitions do not apply to an active threat exercise, which is defined in Texas Education Code 37.1141 and associate rules, if any.ĭrill: A set of procedures that test a single, specific operation or function. In addition, school districts and open-enrollment charter schools should consult with their local fire marshal and comply with their local fire marshal’s requirements and recommendations.ĭrill Freqently Asked Questions (FAQ) Drill Definitions Neither this rule, nor the law, precludes a school district or an open-enrollment charter school from conducting more drills as deemed necessary and appropriate by the district or charter school. This includes designating the number of mandatory school drills to be conducted each semester of the school year, not to exceed eight drills each semester and sixteen drills for the entire school year. Specifically, it states that the commissioner, in consultation with TxSSC and the State Fire Marshal, must adopt rules that provide procedures for evacuating and securing school property during an emergency. This new section addresses mandatory school drills for public school districts and open-enrollment charters. Let it be so, for Texas, for the United States, and for the world, let us “love down” the worst and raise up the best in all of us.Training, Drilling, and Exercising Toolkit 2.1 Drill Requirements Legal ConsiderationsĪs a result of the passage of Senate Bill 11 during the 86 th Texas Legislative Session, TEC Chapter 37.114: Emergency Evacuations Mandatory School Drills was added. Some people don’t believe in prayer, but in the midst of a tornado, as in a foxhole, as has often been said, there are no atheists in crisis we all yearn toward something better, and isn’t that yearning simply non-dogmatic prayer? As one of my good friends said about a hostile and hurtful person in her life, “Finally, we loved her down.” Perhaps prayer, which, in my opinion, is based in love, not ridicule or criticism, would be helpful. To calm the storms of hate and prejudice and racism and bigotry and ignorance and greed and impoverishment and privilege, as well as the storms of weather. ![]() In short, in Texas, we really need some good energy to come our way. The behaviors of humans around the world have initiated climate change which is, we are told, bringing on these storms, and also, who knows, maybe this stormy effect is increased by all the negative psychic energy pointed one way and then the other way by so many polarized peoples… (I’m not saying I believe that, I’m just saying…who knows?) Texas, like the rest of the world in recent years, has endured horrific drought, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods. (Actually, maybe all of us need to change, each in our various ways, to change Texas, change the U.S., or change the world.)īut perhaps good change would come faster if we all consciously started sending good thoughts out everywhere, even to Texas, instead of giving energy to the worst aspects of any of us, or taking refuge in cynicism, self-righteousness, despair, or hopelessness. Many of the actions of the “crazies” do need to change, I agree. There are, in Texas, thankfully, many people who don’t fit the “crazy” caricature, politically or spiritually, just as, in the United States, there are many people who are not racists, Muslim-haters, or imperialists, although around the world there are those who think this is so and direct negative energy toward the United States, sometimes manifesting as bombs, sometimes as-well, who knows what. At my age most everything feels like a Great Mystery and hardly anything feels like a fact, so I don’t know what I believe about this anymore.īut a lot of people say that thoughts influence energy and actions, both personally, physically, and cosmically, and if that’s so, then all the negative thoughts directed toward Texas these days are having an effect worse than could have been intended.
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