The challenge is not limited to just Clinton schools as Lincoln High School Superintendent, Bob Bagby recently implored his local Regional Office of Education to hold a training on the matter.

 

 

Social media changes so frequently, it can be a challenge for administrators to keep up with. Bagby credits the ROE for putting on some training. He says the data shows training is needed for front-line community leaders.

 

 

Threats against schools are not the only thing that results from social media. Bagby says bullying has taken on a new form in schools today thanks to social media.

 

 

Lincoln High School is one of many schools that utilizes a school resource officer through the local police force and Bagby calls the partnership 'beneficial'. He feels disciplinary issues in the school have dropped in half thanks to Officer Butterfield being in the building.

 

 

Bagby says student safety in the last ten years has drastically changed and indicates planning happens every few months though, Bagby points out, threats are being taken seriously and that message is being sent to the students making them.