While it is said that the safety of the school depends on the guns, cameras or alarms in the classroom, Mark Gumer and Christie Schiller believe that specially trained dogs should play a role in preventing school violence
Gomer's for-
The profit company fired a gun-and drug-
Dog patrols are found in the lobby of a high school in Ohio, while Schiller is launching a non-profit organization in Houston to provide schools with trained dogs for free.
Their project is still in its infancy, so questions about dogs are still there, and these dogs are distracting, scaring kids or making them sneeze.
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The first complete Gomer
Time safe dog is a year-
The old Dutch Shepherd named Atticus, who enrolled in this school year's class at Oak Hill heights in green town, southwest Ohio.
Gomer said the dog trained at school before the summer vacation
The owner of American successful dog training in Bridgetown, Ohio.
As part of the corporate School dog protection program, Atticus learned about marching bands and school bells and the sound of books hitting lockers at work.
Gomer trained about 8,000 dogs in more than 20 years, had three children in the school district, and Kang en was killed after 20 students and 6 teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
Atticus, who won the support of students, parents, teachers and district director Todd Yoo, initially worried about what people would think of him for $10,000 to buy a dog.
Gomer has spoken to a lot of parents and teachers and they say it's a good money --spent, he said.
Atticus and two security guards spent his day on the leash and went home with President John Stoddard in the evening.
No message was returned to Stoddard immediately.
As far as she is concerned, Schiller hopes to provide safe dogs to schools for free.
She wants her new initiative k9s4 kids to do what her k9s4 cops do for the police department for the school.
She arranged more than 60 dogs for the agency in three years. }
"These dogs are very social, but very qualified fighters, who are used to reaching directly to the source of the threat or shooter and using weapons to get the suspect out of contact," Schiller said ,", mother and philanthropist in Houston
She said the idea of k9s4 kids stems from the school shooting incident and suggestions for police dog applications.
"The problem that arises is the lack of adequate support from campus police or law enforcement agencies," Schiller said . ".
If a school applies and is selected to receive a dog, it will be fully trained and paid.
She says the cost of buying and training a safe dog is between $10,000 and $15,000.
It is up to school officials to decide who will handle the dogs and what kind of training they will take to look for, Schiller said, if a dog is assigned to a school or several schools in a district.
Schools must also consider the cost of providing medical, food, family and handling personnel for dogs.
With the start and running of the program, questions about the health problems and distractions that the dog may cause remain.
But fear and allergies are nothing new, says Gomer.
He said police departments have been bringing dogs into schools for years, and some children with disabilities are using them.
"If the child is allergic or extremely fearful,safety)
"Dogs will avoid it," he said . "
A school safety expert said that parents and schools must solve these problems.
Cleveland president Ken Trump
S. -based National School Safety and Security Services Consulting, which he discussed in general because he was not familiar with both projects.
In order to cope with the initial excitement of the students, the dogs must be very social, he said.
"These dogs are full of children," Trump said . ".
"There are some issues that need to be addressed, but with the right dogs and the right handlers and the right policies and procedures, they should be very beneficial.
"He said it would be a benefit for dogs to meet Gunners, but the relationship the children have built with dogs and handlers and the good feeling --
The life they create may last longer. changing.
Trump said dogs may be distracting at the beginning, but they will be part of what students want to see when they go to school.
Ted Darling of Harris County, Texas, said: "These dogs can do a lot of things and they always come up with new ideas . " Deputy police officer on the k9s4 police board.
"If I were to pick a school to make trouble, it would be a school without dogs that I knew.