Since I have been on the board, safety and security has been a top priority in our district. We have added mental health professionals to all of our schools. We remodeled all of our school entry ways to make them secure. And we have added security officers in all of our schools.
We need to do more to decrease bullying in schools. Teachers need to be supported when there are discipline issues. If a student is disrupting a class or bullying other students, staff and administrators need to try to work with that student and their family to find solutions. Sometimes that solution might be to remove them from the class or school. We need to offer more seats in our virtual and alternative programs for these students.