Safety Roundtable Q&A
Summary of Q&A from Safety Roundtable
- Physical Security Measures and Infrastructure
- Discipline, Behavior, and Accountability
- Mental Health and Prevention Supports
- Communication and Transparency
- Equity and Unintended Consequences
- Student, Parent, and Community Voice
Physical Security Measures and Infrastructure
Discipline, Behavior, and Accountability
Mental Health and Prevention Supports
Communication and Transparency
Equity and Unintended Consequences
Student, Parent, and Community Voice
Suggestions from Safety Roundtable
(comments recorded below as written)
- Exterior doors should be alarmed if opened in an unauthorized manner, example if opened from the inside without a key card or forced from the outside
- Time to respond and time to action protocols should be in place and drilled
- Interior room locks should be in every room to prevent access to a situation
- Need to act now and institute policy that is ineffective but going to waste 30 days to discuss possible solutions at next board meeting
- Act now to find options that really well to prevent weapons from entering schools like metal detectors
- Phone policy-emergency needs to be access
- Have students volunteer to be student counselors for other students to talk to safely during study halls
- Bring in Alice trainers to do real-time training for staff. I am a g baps employee who did this in a past job for another district and it was extremely valuable
- Once the investigation has concluded the students and the community would benefit knowing the charges and consequences the student is facing as an example to prevent further incidences
- Metal detectors, can still conceal, efficacy of system, strain on security desk staff, starting class late, needing to arrive extra early to go through a search at the door
- We need metal detectors
- What is the missed opportunity. Let's talk about pride, sense of community, parental involvement, extracurriculars, sell apparel.
- Student council or a student body should be represented in meetings or at a school meeting with the board. The students are the only ones being affected. Truly by new rules so they should have a say
- Having more people help prevent the issue before it happens instead of move, people to help wants an issue has happened crushing the problem before it happens from an East high student
- The community needs to get students and parents in a round table. Use all rooms in the school if necessary. This act of public discussion will make it to the social media throughout the whole country. That is what makes an impact.
- Were all of the things that happened at preble and issue because the school is too big? Too many kids to handle in one school suggests more round tables not only in crisis and heavy on the entry points so I can get into school quicker
- Have more assemblies to get information out to students, students getting all of the emails that adults do, especially if it's about them, staff taking part in the clear backpack and show community we are in this together.
- Considers stadium style weapon detectors. It would take less time in the morning.
- Educate outcome of the decisions of students who decide to make threats or follow through with a succession of bringing a weapon to school with the intent to harm. Let us know the consequences. What happens to a student in question besides expulsion and be transparent. We are supposed to be getting these students to be college, community and career readiness. They need to know what they will be held accountable for should they choose such decisions. It's reality.
- Consult the Green Bay Packers and or Resch about utilizing their metal detectors. Shuttle detectors on Sunday evening or Monday mornings to schools staggered deployments based on school start time. They will only be using their six more times in 2025. November 10th is the only weekday game this season. That day devices are moved from school to stadium after school opening.
- Consider partnership with Green Bay airport. They need to update and get new metal detectors anytime. There is new technology. Partner with them. See if they can donate detectors that are no longer used. I understand that negative mental effects come with detectors but going through one everyday will eventually become routine.
- My friend said why not start a GoFundMe for the weapon detectors and not to just district but worldwide?
- Develop a volunteer-based school watch. Similar to a neighborhood watch and they monitor hallways, grounds, parking lots, etc. This provides adult presence. Preferably men and multiple ethnic groups.
- Get metal detectors before one of our loved ones gets killed. Let's step this up a bit higher. Too many lives have been taken away. No more! Let's take action!
- If price isn't a problem, why not get a weapon detector? It's way safer than clear backpacks which you can hide stuff in between. Why are lunch boxes okay but backpacks aren't?
- Stop spending money on extra or large athletic fields in buildings. Example Green Bay West football field that money could have went towards education and safety
- Need more requirements of parents whose children are problematic and cause for concern.
- Dress code. I do not think dress code should be changed. We can't decorate our backpack a form of self-expression. Why strip us have even more of our creative outlet. And some students like myself wearing baggy clothes due to body and security restricting self-expression hurts mental health, it results in stress and a low self-esteem.
- More counselors and mental health support in schools
- Community resources hubs for families
- Restonator Justice instead of punitive discipline
- Violence interruption programs in neighborhoods
- Better communications when major concerns occur. Alert parents immediately not learning on social media
- Trapper keepers and zipper binders just don't seem like they are in line with good safety practices. Can they be banned and or eliminated
- Please address the reason for continuing to allow the zippered binders. Pose a greater risk than a backpack because they go from classroom to classroom versus staying in a locker. I work at Lombardi and our fac at building love voted in October 24 to discontinue these due to safety concerns. These binders do not promote organization as kids just shove everything in there. They're a huge mess and could easily conceal weapons, Vapes, etc
- Music instrument cases? Search them
- Have metal detectors in multiple entries to avoid long lines for entry. Clear bags and backpacks. Are they just going to pass by or still have to be checked? Change outfits? Everyone wear the same uniforms.
- Weapon detectors. Have police dogs in front of door when students are entering in the morning and bring dogs in the cafeteria. School needs to have more security.
- Do not change the dress code. Install metal detectors. Clear backpacks and metal detectors are a good start.
- Install weapon detectors so we do not need to expose our stuff in our backpacks after everything in the past 3 years. Bring the fun back. Take some pressure for academic perfection off the teachers so they can engage more with the students.
- Have more police during school
- Have a detector that detects guns, drugs, knives
- Emailing system for separating normal contact vs threats should be separate, bookmarked or threat heading or separate sender?
- Harsh pun of punishment is needed all around. All. Non-hirable behavior should not be welcomed in the school
- Sounds like behaviors need more consequences early on in elementary. Set aside image and reputation.
- No more open lunches, students should not be leaving campus during school hours. It only leads to more freedom and puts everyone at risk.
- We are high schoolers not kids! Stop treating us like them!
- Dress code should be implemented.
- Classroom doors are not always locked.
- Dress codes (uniforms)
- Metal detectors
- Ask the children what would make them feel safer?
- Create a program like DARE but for weapons education
- Metal detectors
- More security at entrances
- Security checks like TSA
- Teachers need to enforce locking the doors even when students are using the restroom as that is minimally enforced
- As a student, I would feel safer at school if we had more ALICE and evacuation drills to ensure students feel ready for it if something were to ever happen. As well as letting us know what to do if something ever happened during and after school hours during club/activities practices or games. I would also feel safer if teachers had more training for what to do in an emergency situation with their strategic alert system because I have had an experience that was a false alarm but the alert said that it was an emergency situation. The classroom that I was in, the teacher was unsure of what to do and told us she was going to wait for an email to take action.
- No pledge of allegiance
- We are very opposed to this case. We want to safe life for my children.
- Don’t let them go out for lunch. You should have a weapon.
- As a child survivor of a mass shooting, I am concerned about bullying which leads to incidents like a student bringing a gun to school. What can be done to prevent this? Is there a program where a student who is being bullied can talk to such a safe adult?
- Maybe start a program for students like a buddy system and one for students who can talk to an adult.
- Studies show that clear backpacks do virtually nothing to ensure safety for students. A simple google search shows that the top safety contender is metal detectors
- Students want more mandatory alice drills so we know what to do. We want to be treated like adults
- Mental health outreach programs. Hope squad, anything that gives kids a sense of understanding. Dogs that are trained to smell gunpowder. They come through during homeroom biweekly.
- Kids want metal detectors that are brought with referendum money.
- If budget is not an issue, we need more school resources officers. Two to one thousand is not okay.
- Do the kids know what causes another student to bring a gun to school? Bullies that is why they do ALICE drills.
- We should ask parents to talk with their students to behave and avoid bringing weapons to school.
- If backpacks are searched, be through. Not impressed with first day searches. Metal detectors and more monitors/SLAs will help.
- Mental health is so important and schools don’t prioritize that. I’m calling on mandatory announcements during homeroom regarding mental health. Have a designated room students can go to to discuss mental health. Make the school social worker accessible. I know Southwest has 2 SRs, they both stand at the front normally, one walks the halls.
- Metal/weapons detectors? Volunteers? To help staff detectors. Do alarms sound if secure doors are opened from the inside? Survey for students, what leads to this? Mental health? Bully? Isolated? Mandatory mental health check-ins.
- Why is the board choosing to have students pay for clear backpacks when they would rather donate them to get metal detectors which would make them feel safer? If they are more thorough, that would solve many issues. Students would stop using backpacks if they had more passing time and could use their lockers. Maybe if you spend money to help with mental health, less issues would occur.
Recorded Tabletop Discussions from 9/15/25
- TABLE QUESTION #1: Share with others at your table your feelings from last week’s events and your response to the District’s actions that followed.
- TABLE QUESTION #2: The District has shared its safety protocols and took action last week to implement the change to the clear backpacks. Share with your table what other suggestions you have to improve school safety.
- TABLE QUESTION #3: What community resources/strengths do you feel the District is not tapping into or should connect with more that would help improve school safety?