Potter steps up 'safe' effort

At a large table in the Potter Junior High School library last week, 16 members of their Safe School Collaborative met to discuss safety on Potter’s campus. The collaborative is not a gathering of parents, administrators, teachers or law enforcement officers, as you might think; it is dominated by seventh- and eighth-grade students. Although adult representatives - teachers, school service employees, church members, a sheriff’s deputy and the principal - are present, the safety issues the school faces, the problems and solutions, come from the kids.

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