There are several things that could have been done to make each classroom more secure though.
Have solid core doors and a good lock and bolt to close off the classroom from the inside. If there is a glass window on the door, mount a flap on it that can be closed while locking the door. Make any glass in the door wired security glass.
Several precautions could have been taken.
I agree. We, the law-abiders, have to think like the Bad Guys. We, the parents and grandparents, need to do a little tour of our schools, looking thru the eyes of a bad guy. And then we need to ask our schools “Why?”
Perhaps, the next time my school district asks for a million dollar bond to build a new performance center and gets an epic fail at the polls, they’ll rethink their priorities. If they’d said “we need cameras, we need to harden our buildings, we need to train our teacher to KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE” the proposal would have passed.
As for this suit, I hope it’s really about waking people up and making the schools safer. I truly, truly hope the parents are really not just after the money.