Eastern Pulaski school officials are making sure they’re prepared for potential emergencies. Superintendent Dan Foster says they recently finished creating “reunification totes.”
“Basically, if you have to evacuate one of your buildings for some reason and you have to tell the parents, ‘You need to go to the Church of the Heartland,’ or ‘You have to go here,’ ‘You have to go here to pick up your students,’ instead of just a rat race, it’s a planned, ‘Here’s how you reunify the student with the correct parent,'” Foster explains.
He says they learned about the idea during last December’s bus accident, when Plymouth school officials helped with the reunification effort. “Unfortunately, in our situation, it was mostly at the hospital,” Foster says. “Plymouth did a wonderful job, and I appreciate them kind of sharing some of their knowledge with us. So we’ve kind of taken that and we’ve created four of these totes for our campus, and our hope is that they sit and collect dust and we never have to use them. But we have created them if the need is there.”
Foster says Plymouth Schools Director of Safety and Security Ted Brown provided some assistance with creating the reunification totes.
