Schools across the Kenai Peninsula have continued to implement the new ALICE system since August of last year.
ALICE stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, and evacuate though not necessarily in that order.
The Mountain View Site Council was among the first to hold a meeting with the community and Assistant Principal Bill Withrow said about 8 parents attended.
Withrow: “I think the biggest concerns that parents expressed was making sure that lessons we will be teaching in the future are age appropriate and they were trying to figure out what that looks like and that’s something that we as staff are already examining and what will that look like in working in conjunction with the Kenai Police Department.”
After that site council meeting Withrow said that the next step would be to work class by class with the Kenai Police Department.
Last week Soldotna High School began that step; students were instructed by Soldotna Police Officer Tobin Brennan to throw anything close to them at potentially violent school intruders but not to try to engage just to fight.
That is different from what students had been taught previously which was to duck and cover.
