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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Good morning Berkeley High School Families,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We have all just spent time last night watching terrible and
tragic events unfold in the wake of yet another school shooting in our country.
It is important to me that you all know what that means for us at BHS who work
with your children and are charged with keeping them safe.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">As I write this, I am watching our students come to school this
morning through my office window in pairs, groups, and alone - some smiling and
some looking more serious. For any school principal, the thought of someone
hurting my students is at the same time unimaginable and yet must be imagined,
because it must be prepared for. We have long been preparing for two
lockdown drills that will take place this semester. One will happen
during school hours, and one will happen either right before or right after
school. We know that even practicing a scenario in which there is an
active shooter on campus is scary, and also that students have already asked
today if and when we are going to do a drill, because they want to be ready.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We are working with some of our video production students to make
videos for all of our students and staff to see some specific skills and
actions they will need to take during our drill. We are also working with
our BPD School Resource Officer, who has specific training in active shooter
protocols, to prepare in the most thorough way possible.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Additionally, you should know that we have a long-planned
earthquake drill today during 5th period. We will be holding in
classrooms for a short period and then evacuating to our football and softball
fields. Teachers will take attendance and then we will head back into
class. While we know that any sort of evacuation may be anxiety-producing
for staff and students, we also know that being unprepared for an earthquake is
not an option given where we live, and we have been speaking with students on
the morning announcements every day this week about our plan.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I will communicate again
with more details about our lockdown drills, and please know how seriously we
feel the weight and responsibility of keeping safe each and every student you
entrust to our care.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Erin, on behalf of the
admin team.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Below is what I said to
students in the morning announcements today):</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Good morning, students. Thank you for your moment of silence
just now and for your attention the next few minutes. As we watched the
terrible events in Florida unfold last night, I couldn’t help but notice that
the high school there has almost exactly the same number of students as at
Berkeley High. It is horrific to imagine anything like that happening
here, and yet we also know this is the 18th school shooting in 2018
alone. So, while we never want to even think about having to face that
kind of fear and panic, we also know how important it is to be ready. We
have already spoken with all staff about procedures we would follow in this
sort of situation, and our safety staff and admin team have received training
as well. We have long been preparing for a school-wide lockdown drill,
which will help us all know what to do in the case of an active shooter
situation. We will get you the information you need to be prepared for
that drill, and then we will do it, and learn from it. I believe that
practicing even once will help alleviate the fear that many of us feel that
comes from not knowing what to do, though I know that just practicing can be
really scary. We will also practice a lockdown drill outside of school hours,
such as right before or right after school. As soon as the dates and
times are set for those drills, we will let you know.</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Our earthquake drill for today has long been planned, and I
suspect that for some of you, that will cause some anxiety. We need to
proceed with our earthquake drill today, since that is another thing that we
must be prepared for, living where we live - and we ask that all teachers and
students take it seriously.</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I’m going to hand it
over to our regular announcers for the morning sports report. If you need
or want to talk to a counselor about any of this, they are available to you and
standing by. I hope you all stay safe, stay strong, and take good care of each
other, always.</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Erin
Schweng</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
Principal, Berkeley High School<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span></span></span></p>
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