The Newton Community School District Board of Education met to discuss the Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate training program better known as ALICE at Monday night’s meeting at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.

“We talked to some folks who are trainers in our county, and have been for several years, who have been right under our nose, and we didn’t know it,” McDermott said. “We feel like that (this) has some real potential for us. At least two other schools in the county are going down this road.”

Through his research, McDermott found the ALICE program had both positive and negative reviews because of the “counter” part of the program.