The office isn’t like an armed guard shack, where the guy sits there and watches constantly. The office can have someone running over to the nurses office, getting something from the copy room, or even showing a parent part of the way to where they are going.
A jingling bell wouldn’t allow for any control in those situations. Someone would have free and unhindered access and the office personnel would have to hope they heard the little bell ... LOL ...
The way it IS DONE will sometimes mean the person is standing there for a minute or two, until they are available and ready to monitor your entrance. They are ready, at that moment to immediately call the police if necessary and I would imagine they also have an automatic dialer and message for emergencies. A little jingling bell just wouldn’t do it.
The process of not deeming the person a threat would occur in the office when they verify the person and check the records for if the person has access to the kid in question.
The signing in is to provide the record for the transaction, so that if something happens after the fact, they can go back and check to see who has been coming and going. At my school you have to “check out” too. And you date and time the “in” and “out”.
Oh so now it is a transaction!
I see.
I wonder how much these "transactions" are costing the tax payers when they do nothing about what they are alleged to promote.
This is all about the school "administrators" being on a power trip. Even you admit this does nothing to promote safety for the children.
But hey, you get to hire more union members at vastly inflated salaries to make people jump through hoops for your amusement and if they don't comply you can just call more union members to come and haul them off to lock up where they will be harassed and humiliated by more union members.
Gosh! Who would gain by such a system? It does nothing. It gives a number of jobs to union members. It polishes the egos of union members on power trips.
Gee, now let me think for a moment about why someone would endorse and promote such a system. What could it be?