This year, the school has hired a new team of security guards to not only monitor the halls, but also to protect the student body if a dangerous event were to occur. They are highly trained physically to protect the students if a situation ever escalated. These new guards are here to keep the students and teachers safer in an environment they are apart of nearly everyday. A few weeks after the first day of school, students and teachers have already seen an impact.

Sophomore Troy Coleman feels that the guards were necessary to the school.

“We really didn’t have anyone to enforce rules on the students and we needed more trained people to protect us,” Coleman said.

He has also talked to some of the guards throughout school personally.

“They are very nice and I’ve had a few conversations with some of them,” Coleman said. “It feels like they’re my friends.”

Teacher Tina Bairstow gave some insight on how highly trained these guards are and what they could do in the event of an emergency.

“When we were in ALICE Training, I saw how quick a few of them were in action,” Bairstow said. “It left no doubt in my mind that they would be some of the first people to respond if we ever have a situation where we were in danger.”

She confidently said that, as a teacher, she feels very safe with the new guards here and is happy to have them.

With recent events that have occurred in schools, it is a great thing to have these new security guards protecting students daily in the halls.