Students injured in shooting could be helped by information
Posted by Judy Breck on December 19, 2007
Last week six high school students were injured by gun shots when two other students opened fire on them as they got off a school bus. The incident happened in Las Vegas. Click this USA Today report for the full story.
Information can be a huge, and sometimes critical, way to minimize the harm to school students when they are endangered and injured. Defywire provides those responsible for school children with two major kinds of information that is very important in a situation like the one in Las Vegas:
- how to reach a student’s parents or guardian
- health facts about the child that are a factor in his or her treatment.
In the Las Vegas incident, Defywire Guardian would have made it possible for the bus driver to use his or her mobile phone to provide both kinds of information for each of the injured students. The mobile could also have been an instantly available communications focal point for notifying law enforcement and other school officials. The school officials could then have used their Defywire data to find out the names of all of the students on the bus making it possible to let the parents of all children involved know the status of their own child.
