Barely two weeks after a gunman mowed down students and faculty in Parkland, Fla., Hough High School in Cornelius had created a video showing students strategies to survive such an attack.
“While I realize this may be scary for you, I think it's important that we discuss this and do the training on active shooting,” Principal Laura Rosenbach says in the video. “I swear I hope it never happens, but I think that the more you know the better prepared we can be.”
Hough students then demonstrate such “run, hide, fight” tactics as climbing out windows, barricading a classroom with desks and arming themselves with improvised weapons such as a wooden stool and scissors.
In the eight months that followed, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders have talked a lot about preparing schools for “active survival.” But so far only 11 of the district's 176 schools have done the employee training, according to CMS Police Chief Lisa Mangum.
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