BEND, Ore. — With the first hours after the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, the public started asking questions about safety at schools in the Bend-La Pine School District.During an interview Monday, Central Oregon Daily News pressed Superintendent Dr. Steven Cook on what is being done to protect children as most schools are set to reopen Wednesday.”You could turn every school into the equivalent of a federal prison and maybe prevent or at least limit the vast majority of school shootings. How do you find that balance between access and safety,” we asked.”That’s the question. It’s the national question,” Cook responded.Images taken after the shooting showed the damage to a set of double doors where the suspect entered after police say he shot out the windows. That breach is starting new conversations about what is next.”Could we have metal detectors? Could we have more hardened physical systems in place for the structure? That is an option,” Cook said.He knows people are questioning the safety decisions.”Criticism isn’t… doesn’t require you not to listen,” Cook said.His message: We all need to decide the next steps together.”A fence, for example, is a barrier. Do we want to put razor wire around elementary school fences? I mean those are conversations for us to have with our community,” Cook said.”It’s a new day and we’re going to have to look at that and talk about that as a community. What do we want more?” he added.
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