Ridgewood School District reassures parents after Connecticut tragedy
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2012, 4:24 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Parents anxious over the specter of the gut-wrenching in Newtown, Conn., can hopefully rest easier knowing administrators have been taking security seriously long before the incident.
At Willard School, two days before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left six adults and 20 children dead, one parent learned that staff members have been trained to suspect even the most seemingly innocuous school visitors.
Stephanie Reynolds, a mother of two children at the school, said her mother entered the school last Wednesday afternoon during Reynolds’ scheduled library duty to pay her and her granddaughter a visit.
The visit was short-lived; she was followed to the library by Willard Principal Marianne Williams, who stopped her and politely asked her to leave, mentioning the fear of strangers with concealed weapons, Reynolds said.
