LYME/OLD LYME — In an interview published on June 23, Lyme-Old Lyme (LOL) Schools Superintendent Ian Neviaser fielded questions from Connecticut-East.com’s Brian Scott-Smith about the Region 18 Board of Education’s June 15 decision to arm security guards in LOL Schools. The vote was carried by a 7-2 majority.
Scott-Smith says the objective of the interview is “to find out how they [LOL Schools] got here and what it all means.
The interview can be listened to via this link on CTNewsJunkie.com and lasts around 20 minutes.
One of the questions Neviaser answers in this “very direct discussion,” is, “What’s the need for speed?” to which he counters, “I would not agree that this was rushed,” before responding in full.
He also discusses that he feels, after so many school shootings in the US, ‘The country has become numb to it [gun violence.]
In addition, Neviaser states that he firmly believes, “The quicker the response [to gun violence in schools], the more likely you are to save lives.”