More police to be in Nashville schools than ever before
Good morning, friends. This is Tennessean storytelling columnist Brad Schmitt.
I count myself among the many parents concerned about school safety. Lots of us are still shaken by May's slaughter of 19 children in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
To that end, Nashville will put more Metro Police officers in elementary schools than ever before in the first weeks of the new school year, which starts Monday, Police Chief John Drake and schools director Adrienne Battle announced yesterday.
Later in the year, police will put unarmed "safety ambassadors" in the schools, reporter Molly Davis writes. Check out Molly's full story here.
Sometimes we want to think that kind of violence won't happen here in Nashville. But just two weeks before the Uvalde shooting, an agitated intruder pushed past teachers and kindergarten students on an Inglewood Elementary School playground to get inside.
Brave teachers and staff members there intervened to keep the intruder from getting to students in the building
As schools all over Middle Tennessee return again this week and next, I'm certainly hoping for a safe and productive semester for all students and staff members.
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