What is a 'lock-down'?
A lock-down in most parts of the country is a protocol procedure to secure the building and the occupants of that building from some type of danger. That may be a gunman, that could be a bear, as we seen on a campus before. We emphasize the schools have to have two types of lock-down; they should have an emergency lock-down for very extraordinary rare event; like someone in a building shooting people. The second type of lock-down is a non-emergency preventive lock-down, which is what schools predominantly lack to implement. More than 95 percent of the time they need a lock-down; that's the police chasing a fugitive in the neighborhood, and there is no indication of a gun, and there is not a person with a weapon on campus; that type of thing. We secure the building more than normal, but we continue the process of teaching. It is very important to have both types of lock-downs. We see administrators not implementing a lock-down because the only option they have is making children lay on the floor and completely disrupt the academic environment. So we want to be sure we have both types of lock-down.
