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East student urges clearer safety drills and raises credit discrepancy for college-in-the-schools courses
Summary
Student Representative Kate Dean told the board that East High students want more frequent, explicit emergency training (including discussion of active shooter scenarios) and raised concerns that CITS course credits at East and Denfeld are being issued through different colleges without clear notice to students.
Student Representative Kate Dean told the Duluth Public Schools board on Sept. 11 that students at East High want clearer, more frequent emergency training and raised a separate concern about inconsistent college-in-the-schools (CITS) credit granting between East and Denfeld.
"Students care, and it would mean a lot to see and hear our administrators making it really clearly known that they care too," Dean said during her report about student reactions after the recent national and local shootings. Earlier in her remarks she described a classroom conversation where students felt lockdown procedures did not explicitly name the possibility of an active shooter.
Dean also told the board students are frustrated that CITS precalculus, CITS physics and CITS…
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