Personal Narrative: My Visit To Child Development Services

The school I chose to visit is Child Development Services (CDS) Head Start I met with Sheryl Grasmick who is the center manager. She shared many of the safety procedures with me the first thing that is noticed when entering in to the school there is a key pad in the front entrance that a code has to be entered for the door to unlock the floor is tile and there are runner mats for when the weather is bad so students and parents don't have to walk on wet tile. Sheryl said they have fire evacuation, severe weather/tornado procedure and lock down procedures in place that all employees have been trained on as well as they do drills on a monthly basis to keep the students aware of the proper procedure. For the fire evaluation students are required to line up walk outside along the playground fence and line up along the back of the fence and stay there as their teacher calls attendance to make sure all students are accounted for once they are the teacher holds up a green card showing all are safe and accounted for, there is also a white card with a red cross showing paramedics are needed or a red card, meaning not all are …show more content…
Sheryl had said they always use the same code, I feel that could be a safety hazard if someone got the code for the door that shouldn't have it they could easily get into the school. Plus sometimes there are custody issues with families of the students and if the office is made aware of a legal situation where there is legal documents saying a specific person can't pick a child up then the code could be changed so that person can't get into the school and possible create a scene or cause safety issues for the