Another school shooting, this time at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, has left more students dead.
For parents, it raises the question again - is my child safe in the classroom?
A group of students from Oshkosh North aren't so sure about the answer.
"The majority of these shooters are young males with anger issues," student Brock Doemel said.
Students like Doemel feel strongly about keeping schools safe. They've participated in a school walkout and a march through downtown. The students said that our culture of raising boys to hide their emotions can lead to issues with mental health, and from there, a greater danger emerges.
"It's very easy for people with mental health issues to get a gun," student Braden Cooper said.
Local school districts have to deal with all those possible issues and try to find the answers.
"All the schools have a plan," Green Bay Area Public School District Chief of Community and PK-16 Programs Vicki Bayer said. "All the schools are secured during the school day, which means that every door to the outside is locked, and we have processes and procedures in place."
Bayer said that a safety plan in the Green Bay Area Public School District is used and updated regularly. They started looking closely again after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Then, the state stepped in and brought discussions into high-gear with a statewide $100 million grant opportunity to improve school safety across Wisconsin.
"We would have done the work regardless, but the $100 million grant is very helpful," Bayer said.
School board members said that they'll use their share of the money, up to $20,000 per building, to make security improvements.
"I think the cameras and the radios are the things we're going to be looking at primarily," school board member Ed Dorff said.
Other options are improving entrances, stronger window security, and a more sophisticated visitor system. Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith has proposed another idea.
"In my humble opinion, the best way to keep a school safe is to have an armed police officer inside that school, preventing that person from coming inside and harm our kids."
Smith said that the idea would cost about $2.5 million per year. The grant can't fund it, but Smith said the district should consider the benefits.
"If you're going to go into a school with a rifle and shoot little kids, you're a coward," Smith said. "Cowards are afraid of policemen with guns, and they won't come in or they'll be a big deterrent if there's a policeman inside that school with a gun."
School board members said that they've asked the community about armed officers inside schools.
"The feedback i get is overwhelming that it's not something we're interested in doing," Dorff said.
The school grant applications are due June 8. It's funding to help answer the question that matters most - is my child safe in the classroom? Students said that they want the answer to be yes, to be able enter a school without fearing the worst.
"They don't want to walk in this building and risk their life every day," Doemel said.
