FAYETTEVILLE, WV (WVNS) - For schools across the country, security is an important consideration.

How to keep children safe is not just a concern on the minds of parents, but also for faculty and staff at their school.

Overseeing school safety now falls primarily onto school resource officers. In Fayette County, you'll find two people assigned to that role.

School Resource Officers Mike Fridley and Michael Dickerson, also known as the 'Mike & Mike Team.'

It's a catch-22 for us because not only are we checking all the schools within the county. Once a week, one of us are at Meadow Bridge Regional School where we make that rapport with the kids."

Fayette County Board of Education hired both men to help ensure safety in each school.

This includes responding to a threat if the worst kind

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