Lanier senior urges Jackson schools to add student crisis‑response team with CPR training

Lanier High senior Mackenzie Hodges Woods asked the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees on March 18 to add trained students to school crisis‑response teams with both CPR certification and active‑shooter training.

Woods told the board she organized the proposal as a three‑part model — identify, prepare and ready — and submitted suggested language changes to several district policies and plans, including references she cited as “JKAD (Scholar Safety),” the district Emergency Response Plan (EBBAG) and the district emergency drills policy (EBAB). She proposed training and certification opportunities beginning in elementary grades (she suggested fourth and fifth grades), a middle‑school team and a broader volunteer program for high school students (grades 9–12), and recommended use of school…