Posted on 02/22/2018 7:35:33 AM PST by Cubs Fan
1. Make all the students and teachers enter through one entrance.
2. Put a metal detector (or detectors) in that entrance.
3. pay an armed security guard to oversee the area.
(If it is a larger school maybe hire some more security guards and open two more entrances with metal detectors during the morning rush)
I do, among other measures.
Actually did that in Dallas ISD schools, weapons still made it through the system, violence still taking place.
It would certainly help, but it reinforces the fact that government schools are like prisons and the society in schools is very much like that in prisons. The real solution is an end to government education and the privatization of ed at all levels. Also, no more compulsory attendance.
Cardinals fan here. :-)
Of course it would work, but the Left would be against it just for that reason. Their main goal is gun grabbing, not school safety.
Correction though: Everyone, to include teachers, staff, and students, must enter and subsequently be run through a scanner or metal detector. Perhaps an ID should be issued/given to all teachers, staff, and students, as well.
as you cause a bottle neck of people waiting to enter, a truck can plow through the crowd killing more than 17. so you put up barracades to stop vehicles, then an IED is hurled over it into the crowd...
there is no stopping those who are intent on doing harm... we can only respond in kind to stop it.
you forgot, lock external doors while school is in session
Too many schools here in Florida are open campuses, with kids walking to different buildings between classes. Even elementary school students must go to different buildings for the library, cafeteria, etc.
Seems simple to me. Why wasn’t this done years ago?
For most of us, school was prison.
I agree! I still remember how free I felt when I graduated from high school, and that was many, many years ago.
That’s the way it’s done in our school. It works, kinda. But illegal stuff still gets in occasionally. And here’s how. Student A goes through the security process. He’s clean.
Then Student A goes to a remote part of the building - maybe a restroom - and opens a window. Student B - who is waiting outside - throws the contraband through the open window.
Sometimes Student B isn’t even needed. Student A will leave the contraband on the window sill the night before.
I guess this method could be thwarted by stationing teachers outside on all sides of the building, all day long.
Control all access to schools. NO private vehicles, all bussed in and dropped in a secure area undergoing full pat down/xray inspection. No backpacks allowed.
I loathed elementary and high school. I liked college, though. Teachers imposed no discipline - you either failed or passed and that was that. They didn’t care.
Or ,..... best answer ..... HOME SCHOOL
Gee, just like they do at courthouses, airports, federal office buildings, and so forth.
College, of course, does not have compulsory attendance so the society there is of a voluntary nature. I liked college much better, too.
One story said that Florida high school had 4000 students. So, more than one entrance might be needed but that is not a big deal. They can study, for example, what baseball does, I have seen pro-games and have had to go through metal detectors.
In a smaller school...maybe.
You would have to go and hire six to eight folks to be there between 7 and 8:30, to check entry, and have at least three there for the remainder of the day. Fenced off school required. Most simply aren’t made or designed in the fashion you suggest. My old school had at least sixteen ways you could enter the grounds.
But why really stop there? Why not have an analysis done over the school population, and just start to identify trouble-makers? Bring them in with the parents and lay down the law. You screw up or challenge the authority of a teacher....you leave for two weeks. The second time....the remainder of the school-year, then you repeat the year.
Accepting the school being some of ‘zoo-operation’....like what they had in Broward County is unacceptable.
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