Superintendent William McKersie Emergency Management Plan Fails Parents, Students And Taxpayers

FAILURE: Greenwich Superintendent of Schools William McKersie Emergency Management Plan Gets Failing Marks In Its First Test A 19-Year-Old Byram Joker, Gianfranco Romero, Is Arrested For Breach Of Peace After A Greenwich High School Lock Down. After extensive planning and study by the highly compensated employees, the schools emerency management plan was put to the test when a Greenwich High School student, became upset at a joke and called 911 directly from a cell phone, triggering a massive police response. Greenwich Superintendent of Schools William McKersie said he thinks school officials made the right call in locking down the building, despite not finding any guns or weapons on the teen aged Romero. At one point it looked like they could end the lockdown, but then they realized there was a second student they needed to find and interview about the joke. GHS Headmaster Christopher Winters made a school-wide announcement that officials had taken "control of the rumor" and discovered no weapons. Mr. Romero's Facebook profile page, seems to indicate that he likes to joke around a lot. The Facebook profile lists him as a member of GHS Class of 2013 who is studying "sexology" and lists his work as "dancing." He is friends with the Greenwich Mountain Lion, a profile created two years ago lampooning frequent sightings of the wild feline in town. Greenwich First Selectman Peter Tesei, who also serves as the town's police commissioner, immediately called a meeting of the Board of Selectmen at Town Hall into recess upon learning of the lockdown. Also despite finding no gun, the Greenwich Police Department searched the suspect's Byram home and no weapons, violent video games or manifestos were found. First Selectman Tesei was whisked to the school, where the lockdown had been lifted just before noon and shaken students congregated outside the building's main entrance. Administrators decided to continue with the school day after the joke causing lockdown was lifted, as a way to get back to normal. The school did offer counseling to students, upset about the joke causing lockdown. But parents questioned the judgment of some teachers who, when the joke causing lockdown was lifted and classes resumed, had their students take tests. There is also no word yet on whether students who took the oportunity to go home early will be penalized.



via Greenwich Newswire http://www.topix.com/city/greenwich-ct/2013/04/superintendent-william-mckersie-emergency-management-plan-fails-parents-students-and-taxpayers