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April 10, 2023
Dear Prince Family,
This email follows my comments in yesterday's Wolverine Weekly reminding you that we have a regularly scheduled lockdown drill tomorrow morning, Tuesday, April 11. The drill will start at 8:55 a.m., so please expect to receive our standard "DRILL, DRILL, DRILL" text messages at the start and conclusion of the exercise.
As a reminder, we conduct four lockdown drills a year; each semester has one announced and one unannounced drill. After tomorrow's announced lockdown drill, we will have a second (unannounced) lockdown drill within the next two weeks. We conduct unannounced lockdown drills at "inconvenient times” when students are moving about the campus and within the buildings (recess, class exchanges, lunch, etcetera) because it requires our teachers, staff, and students to make timely decisions on how to get into a secure location. You will also receive text messages that begin with "DRILL, DRILL, DRILL" at the beginning and end of the unannounced lockdown drill.
Per our procedures, deputies from the Oconee County Sherriff's Office will be on campus for both drills to evaluate us and share their observations during our post-drill debriefs. The sheriff's office has keys to our school, classrooms, etcetera, and can also see images from our campus cameras on their cell phones before arriving on campus. You can read the debrief comments from our last unannounced lockdown drill in October here.
My Marine Corps training taught me years ago to "expect what you inspect" and "a calm sea does not make a skilled sailor." Therefore, we will continue to undergo scenario-based training to sharpen our decision-making and response times while being evaluated by outside law enforcement experts. Our students' safety is always our number one priority; our duty as Christian educators mandates we train for a day we pray will never come.
In His service,
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