Hear more, have questions answered regarding all around campus safety
(Seguin) – Despite the chaos and cancellation of classes this week, the Seguin ISD says an important community presentation is still on schedule for Thursday night. Sean Hoffmann, the chief communications officer for the Seguin ISD, says district families and the Seguin community are encouraged to make plans for its Safety Summit on Thursday evening at Seguin High School.
In continuing that community engagement piece that they started over the summer with the safety task force, Hoffmann says this event will serve as a follow up event.
“This event is for students, families and community members to come out and learn more about safety within schools as well as be able to experience and talk with some of the organizations and businesses that will be there to provide resources to the community,” said Hoffmann.
Hoffmann says the event will be an evening of education and resource sharing. He says in addition to a guest speaker, there will be a pair of presentations for both adults and students.
“The main component of the event will be a guest speaker from the David Legacy Foundation. This I individual will talk about the harmful effects of bullying and cyber bullying and during that time, we will have a separate age-appropriate presentation for students who are in grades k-5 in the Seguin High School library. We will also have presentations on the harmful effects of vaping and like I said, we will have several booths set up where attendees can visit with these organizations to learn more about mental health, suicide, substance abuse, things of that nature. Again, trying to provide that community support for our families and community and asking folks to come out, just learn more and become better educated and we feel like an event like this is going to help anybody who is able to attend,” said Hoffmann.
Hoffmann says the Seguin ISD Safety Summit is designed to ultimately keep all kids and staff safe. He says safety will always remain a top priority.
“Safety has been a priority for public schools for forever and really that focus intensified over the last few years as public schools have seen acts of violence in and around the school and at Seguin ISD, that focus is no different. We feel we have improved safety components at our campuses over the years with technology cameras, safety vestibules, rapid ID systems and building relationships with Seguin, Fire, EMS, Police as well as the Guadalupe County Emergency Management Department and the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office and the safety summit that we had over the summer, we can take that a step further with the community’s focus on safety in our schools as well. With Bond 2022, we saw that pass and $15 million of that is earmarked for safety and security which we will see this spring with perimeter fencing going up around many of our campuses,” said Hoffmann.
The Seguin ISD Safety Summit will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the high school campus. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m. Door prizes and refreshments will be made available.