September 24, 2018
Dear Members of the MPSD
Community,
As many of you are aware, the
Marshfield Police were tasked with searching for a shooting suspect earlier
this evening. Due to the proximity of
the search to some of our schools, those buildings near the search site went
into a Shelter in Place per coordination with the Marshfield Police.
All schools were locked down
and no one was allowed to enter or to leave.
When it was deemed appropriate, the Marshfield Police Department
coordinated the evacuation of those buildings with our staff. Students and adults present in those
buildings were escorted out of the building with the assistance of the police.
The largest group of students
and adults were at the Marshfield High School as there was an athletic event
and various practices taking place. All
of the students and adults showed great patience and composure throughout the
event. We also had students at the South
River School for practice and adults were at the Martinson Elementary and
Furnace Middle Brook Schools. They were
all terrific as well in dealing with the Shelter in Place and were successfully
evacuated in a safe and secure fashion.
There was tremendous
coordination with the Marshfield Police Department throughout the evening, even
as they dealt with the issue at hand. I
want to thank the entire police department and our staff who were at each of
the impacted schools for all of their efforts.
I also want to thank our students, the adults in attendance and all of
the parents, along with our friends from Duxbury who were in attendance for a
game, who all worked together as we safely evacuated the buildings. It was a tremendous team effort and it was
comforting to see our safety protocols work effectively when put into action.
If there is any new
information to share on this matter, I will send out when appropriate. For our students, in light of the ongoing events
around town, all homework due tomorrow and tests and quizzes assigned for tomorrow
will be postponed by a day.
Thank you and have a good
& safe evening.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey W. Granatino
