This is what a local school district does to secure the schools...

[2aguy]

Thought I would share this....since it covers the basics and the best idea I have heard in a long time............

A local school district in my area....

--Two doors to get into the school, one to get into the lobby, the other doors get you into the office, the doors to the main building are locked, and guests are only allowed into the building through the office....and that door from the office to the main building is buzzer controlled by the secretary...........

--doors are locked, the main front and rear entrance have cameras so the office can see who rings the door bell for entrance...all other doors are card key swipes and locked at all times....

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you know how you have firealarm pull stations? Where you lift the plastic cover and pull the lever to set off the fire alarm...they are red?

The local school district now has Blue Police Call pull stations...... lift the cover and pull the lever and the alarm goes directly to the police department, bypassing the 911 call center, which rolls police from the entire town and whoever is at the station to go directly to the school......this cuts response time down due to 911 lag......it is a great innovation.....the office also has a button they can push that alerts the police....

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[miketx]

Leftist outrage will appear soon!

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

I was in high school in the late 70's and early 80's.

I went to a brand new high school that was supposedly built for safety. It was billed as the most forward thinking, high student number (handling over 3,000 students), high tech (first school to have a computer class with one computer terminal), 3 auto shops, and a planetarium. Yes, a planetarium.
2 story school.
It actually looks like a prison from the outside.
AND IT FELT LIKE ONE!

No classrooms have windows, except for one.....architecture class.
There is one door per classroom. (sounds safe already, right?)
The front doors enter into a giant foyer, with a large hallway branching off to the right and left of the main office that was at the back of the foyer.
The main hallways are U shaped and wrapped around to the rear of the school where there were two sets of double doors.
At the each end of the main hallways from the foyer, one hallway has double doors going to the student parking lot, the other end of the hallway has double doors going to the PE area (tennis courts, baseball field, football field, etc...).

The doors at the end of the halls that go to the outside areas are "one way doors".......you can go out, but you can't come in............except the doors from the student parking lot were opened both ways in the mornings. To get in from the PE fields outside, you had to have a coach pop the lock while you were out there incase you needed to come back in for something......otherwise you had to wait until the coach opened the door at end of class for everybody to get in.

Now mind you...........this is back in the late 70's.

There was rivalry violence between our school and another high school on the other side of town.
There were bottles thrown thru windows at both schools, after football games.
One of our football players had a large glass bottle thrown at him after he left one of the games on his motorcycle. The bottle crushed his helmet and cracked his skull. They weren't sure if he was going to live.
Never heard if they caught the person who threw the bottle or not.
The football player did make it, but the doctor said he might end up with a handicap. It all depended on if his brain healed itself correctly or not.

Stuff like that went on all the time between these schools.


The point being.....................

No matter how safe and secure you try to make something..........somebody is GOING TO GET INSIDE!!!!
There's always a way.

If criminals can find a way to escape prison, of course some looney is going to figure out how to get into a secured school.