SHOW HIM THE MONEY: William McKersie Can't Do Nothing Until He Gets 1.5 Million From Greenwich Homeowners.
Inappropriate Joke High School Lock Down Put McKersie's Security Failures Front And Center
The inappropriate joke that caused the Thursday morning lock down at Greenwich High School exposed several security and safety failures in the Schools Emergency Management Plan that School Superintendent William McKersie says he can't fix until he is given $1.4 million dollars and a second $100,000 per year school based police officer that the Greenwich Police Department wants.
“Some of the things that were a challenge will be addressed by the safety and security plan the town has approved,” McKersie said.
Apparently , School Superintendent McKersie needs 1.5 Million, before he can tell High School teachers and the 2,800 students that sending a massive flood of tweets and texts only creates massive traffic jams that might prevent help getting to them rapidly.
Apparently , School Superintendent needs 1.5 Million, before he can work with town officials to find a site away from the school where concerned parents can gather and get official updates on the lock down and not = caused major gridlock along East Putnam Avenue as emergency personnel try to get to the High School rapidly.
Apparently , School Superintendent needs 1.5 Million, before he can figure out when and how to get the word out to parents about a High School lockdown.
Apparently , School Superintendent needs 1.5 Million, before he can figure out how to send an email blast to all students saying there is a lock down, so that high school students who often travel off-campus for lunch will not walk back into an emergency situation on campus.
"The locking of the doors, the universality of keys, access of police, the layout of the building for police, an external notification system for students who are off site” all will be addressed with the plan that has the endorsement of the Greenwich Police Department." said in a press interview.
That's great, but there there should not be confusion among authorities about which keys to use to lock and unlock the doors at the high school.
Greenwich High School teachers should not have to unlock their classrooms and leave their students in order unlock doors for police offices.
Greenwich High School already has a series of master keys and a dozen copies of those keys can be copied and color coded and matching color coded stickers could be placed above the locks that the current master keys open.
This one dozen sets or even more sets could be given to the Greenwich Police Department and it would not cost 1.5 Million for School Superintendent McKersie to fix this flaw in is Emergency Management Plan.
To repair broken classroom locks and to put locks on student areas doors that don't have locks will not cost 1.5 Million and like everything else listed above should already had been fixed, before the 19 year olds inappropriate joke caused a Greenwich High School lock down.
School Superintendent McKersie doesn't need 1.5 Million, before he can give every Greenwich Police Officer a tour of every school in the district and laminated floor plan sheets of every school that could be housed under the drivers seat of every Greenwich Police Department patrol car.
No one is arguing that School Superintendent McKersie will not need additional funds to fix his failed Emergency Management Plan, but right now parents and taxpayers need him and the other high paid town employees to come up with some common sense measures that will protect Greenwich School children now.
McKersie has repeatedly refused to discuss the status of Gianfranco Romero, the 19 year old Byram student whose joke tested the the School Superintendent's Emergency Management plan to test.
The best McKersie has offered is this.....
“The police have fully investigated and we believe we are in a very safe place with this individual and the situation,” McKersie said at a press conference. “We’ll look into the disciplinary issues but I am not going to get into the discipline discussions. We are now going through the review of his behavior.”
What is really needed is a review of why School Superintendent McKersie's Emergency Management Plan failed in so may critical areas.
