E911 for Schools: Why 911 Needs the Classroom, Not Just the Address
Here is a number most school leaders have never thought about: how many different places on your campus share the same street address. For a typical middle school, it is somewhere past sixty. Sixty rooms, one line on an envelope. That matters because of what happens when someone on your staff dials 911. For a great many schools, that one line is all the 911 operator is given. I started Carolina Digital Phone in Greensboro in 2000, and schools have been a large part of our work ever since. In my experience, this is the least understood weakness in school safety,...