A wider public records request revealed 40 Denver Public Schools students were under a pat-down safety protocol at the time of the East High School shooting that injured two deans. via TonyKovaleski and KellyDietz_7
DENVER — Denver7 Investigates has learned 40 Denver Public Schools students were under a pat-down safety policy the same day as a shooting inside East High School, and that these numbers are not required to be reported to the district.
Denver7 records requests to DPS were denied because of the inclusion of the words"district-wide." After re-formulating the request to only ask for numbers reported within each school, Denver7 Investigates received the data. Four DPS middle schools had at least one student on a pat-down safety plan — Lake, McAuliffe Manual, McAuliffe International and Kepner Beacon middle schools. North, Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, East, Thomas Jefferson, Manual, and Bruce Randolph high schools all reported students receiving pat-downs.
But one student feels differently. Caleb Fiala, spokesperson for East High School's Students Demand Action group, says it's not about the numbers. "I don't know how as a teacher, as an educator, you can work in an environment where you can be thinking every day about whether or not somebody who made a threat is walking in the halls next to your kid or is in your classroom sitting there," he said."I love East. It's a wonderful school, a great community," said Fiala."I just want to feel safer in my school than I am right now.
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