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Are your kids safe? Tulsa public schools responds to the Florida school shootings

TULSA, Ok — Schools in the Tulsa area responding to Wednesday's shootings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

“We are on top of this” Tulsa schools superintendent Dr. Deborah Gist told us early Thursday morning. “We take these situations seriously and prepare for them” she continued. “Because we have a campus police department, we are able to have and practice our emergency plans.”

Each school has an armed officer on-location and the district continues to make each physical location safer. “We have more and more buildings with more modern, secure entrances.” We asked Gist to explain how their system works. “Entrances have a buzzing system” she began explaining.   “The system allows you into a secured area that accesses the office but not the rest of the building.”

When asked what she’d like to say to parents and lawmakers Gist took a deep breath and began. “There’s no one thing that can be done to prevent these incidents, but there are a combination of things.” She explains some of those include “security, mental and emotional health, and gun security while figuring out what we can do together to prevent these things.”

Gist closed with a message about money. “It requires funding,” she said flatly. “It requires us to maximize the funding we have but it does require funding.”

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