Still, Dorn cautioned against concentrating on rare events. “Te example I give
is the active shooter,” he said. “Te more you fo- cus on that one thing to the exclusion of others, the worse you will han- dle anything, including the active shooter. It’s critical you have a broad base of knowledge.”
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£ Gray Ram Tactical Senior Consultant Bret Brooks specializes in various training for school bus drivers, including violence detection and prevention, and counterterrorism.
breathing,” Dorn said. “We know that when your heart races, a human being mentally does not perform very well. So controlling the heart rate can help a
driver think more clear- ly. It’s well documented that when you get stressed and your heart races, your brain doesn’t do too good.” Dorn said that while
the Chowchilla school bus driver deviated from established policy during the hijacking, he handled the situation well because he made good decisions under extreme stress.
School bus drivers in the Harrold Indepen- dent School District in rural Texas are eligible to carry firearms along with the district’s other employees. Tis came about as a result of a policy adopted in 2007 for the safety of the students and staff. Te
school is 17 miles from the county seat, the sheriff and five deputies. If there is an emergency on campus, it takes at least 30 minutes for law enforcement to respond. Some praised the
move while others con- demned it, but Superin- tendent David Tweatt literally stuck to his guns in defending the policy as a sound tactical move. “When you can nip stuff in the bud, then it’s over pretty quick,” Twe- att said. He cited delayed response times during the shootings at Virginia Tech, Columbine and the West Nickel Mines Amish School shootings as reasons for adopting the policy. News media in Eu-
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