Looking after the safety of every child in a school district is a huge responsibility and a task of enormous importance, officials say.It?s also a job Greenwood School District 50 is more than capable of handling, Superintendent Bill Steed said.Some questions were raised recently as to the district?s ability to keep students safe after a 4-year-old student at Oakland Elementary School was lost within the building.The child was reported missing after having gone into another teacher?s classroom Aug. 10 and was found safe inside the building about an hour later, after a search party had been launched to search the area around the school.In an Internet poll conducted by The Index-Journal, readers were asked if they were ?confident in the security procedures in place in area schools.? As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, 212 responses had been received. Of those, 86 percent (or 182 responders) answered no.Steed said he could understand why there would be concerns following last week?s incident. He also said steps have been taken already to prevent such an occurrence from happening again. Security measures will continue to be improved, he said.In several of District 50?s elementary schools, the younger students wear ID badges at the beginning of the school year.

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