I think public schools need to be re-designed. Too many of them have side doors that can only be opened with a key card from the outside but can be opened by anyone from the inside, which is what happened in Santa Fe. Either eliminate the side doors altogether or make them so they can only be opened with a key card from both the inside and outside.
> Either eliminate the side doors altogether or make them so they can only be opened with a key card from both the inside and outside. <
The fire marshal would never allow that. And then there are the windows. I taught for many years in an urban high school. Suppose Student A wants to smuggle drugs or booze into the school. So here’s what he does. He gives the contraband to a friend, Student B. Student A then breezes through security at the front door.
Student A then opens a window somewhere else in the building (maybe in a rest room). Student B throws the contraband through the window.
That happened many times at my school.
But, emergency evacuation would be greatly compromised. Interior doors must be able to open independent of any locking system.
Possibly some sort of secondary door, outside the building in a fenced in area could be developed. Say the building door is alarmed and the exterior gate can be monitored by video so that way, the alarm sounds, security guards watch the video to see the gate and make sure whoever triggered the alarm is not allowing ingress to someone.
That whole thing could be done for a few thousand dollars a door.