A central Illinois school leader is offering thoughts on the elementary school massacre in a small Texas town Tuesday.

Dr. Lisa Taylor is the Superintendent of Heyworth Schools says the events from Tuesday are just tragic and make one sick. It leaves administrators up at night wondering what more can they do to prevent those types of things from happening.

Dr. Taylor says Illinois schools spent a lot of time, money, and resources before the pandemic to upgrade security. She anticipates with the events of Tuesday, those conversations and reviews will start back up again.

While it remains to be determined if mental health issues with the shooter played a role in the motive for the shooting, Dr. Taylor says there needs to be more done to address the growing mental health needs of young people.

Dr. Taylor indicates they have recently updated how they conduct active shooter drills and anticipates looking closer at those procedures going forward as well.