In active shooter attacks, private preschools are especially vulnerable because teachers are generally not trained for them, small children are less able to regulate themselves and law enforcement officials are less likely to warn about emergencies, an expert in the field told educators Saturday.
Andrew Roszak, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Child Preparedness, was in Las Vegas on Saturday to teach a course for early childhood educators about how to plan for and defend against active shooting violence at preschools.
“We’ve got to be thinking about this because the biggest gap that we have across the nation is that we in early childhood do not get the emergency alerts like our friends in elementary schools, the middle schools and high schools get,” Roszak said.
