Letter to the editor: Leaders should keep school safety in focus

Now is not the time for our school boards and state legislators to take time off from school safety.

If you check your school board’s website, you will probably see that there are no meetings in July and probably no meetings until later in August. Also, if you check the school board’s own statements, you will see that they serve as agents of the state Legislature.

In my opinion as a citizen and as an approved Pennsylvania school safety assessor, this is no time to take time off from school safety. We don’t need or care to know everything a school needs to know about safety, but we need to know everything a school cares about for safety.

So, if the school board is an agent of the state Legislature, we need to know that our state schools and our state legislators are still working and sharing everything they need to know and care about for school safety. All sensitive and confidential information can be shared on a need-to-know basis, but we still need to know and show that we will always care for our schools’ safety and especially for all the students in our schools.

We all need to do what is right, right now, and before the necessary becomes necessary.

Dennis Smiddle

Canonsburg