At Sandy Hook it only took 10 minutes to kill all those children & adults - before the police arrived!
This isn't a game of rock, paper, scissors, guns! This is real life and paper is going to lose every single time.
Now, it also didn't work in this case. The mother was able to get to her child without signing the paper. She didn't, however, take her child and leave. The police arrived and rather than being sensible, they arrested her for "failure to sign the magic paper". Good grief. It was her child, she was summoned by the school and then they claimed that she was trespassing. Idiocy.
The police were called, they arrived. That was supposed to be the outcome, in that event of someone blowing past the office. And it was the outcome.
It works this way ... (1) someone either stops by the office to be identified (and that means checking the records, too) or (2) if they blow past the office, the police are called.
Take your pick, number 1 or number 2. In this case it was number 2.
This isn’t rocket science or brain surgery ... LOL ...
AND, in case you missed the post up above, I made note that this was for the two issues that parents are concerned about, for which they sign paperwork at the beginning of the school year letting the school know what they want. They want only certain people to have access to their child and they want the school to “hand over” their child to only the people,they put down on paper (the paper that is in the office).
I made note, up above, that this isn’t for the wild and crazed gunman or criminal - that will have to be for the armed people to handle - as the office personnel doesn’t have a shotgun under the counter or a fun on their belt.
If you want to work with the school in regards to the crazed and wild gunman, you’re going to have to address that one in a different manner and in regards to “armed intervention”.
This case is about IDENTIFYING who is authorized to have access to your child and who the school will “hand over” your child to.
ALSO ... I see that you didn’t see my answer up above, so I’ll repeat it here. You said ... “Why have a locked door if you’re going to just let everyone in? Senseless!”
From up above (someone said a “ringing bell” would do as good ... LOL ...) ...
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”.