That is a huge red flag to me. I read recently that this particular school district, maybe not this school in particular has had something like 40 either hard or soft lockdowns, whatever they wanna call it because of border patrol chasing suspects nearby. It wasn’t a foreign concept to them but they never put into practice but something used multiple times and even with the guy who had shot his grandmother, crashed his car outside of school for a good 10 minutes no action was taken. There is a massive failure in communication and if proper action had taken, from locking down the school to officers engaging the crazy guy with a rifle outside the school and shooting him it is likely this tragedy would have been prevented completely .
I’d be curious as to how many lockdown alerts at Ross Elementary versus district-wide. If every school in the district went on lockdown whenever a car chase occurred in the region, no surprise that they would cease to be taken seriously.
At this point it seems that one teacher compromised security by propping open the back door so she could skip out to her car. I speculate that leaving your class for unofficial breaks is not allowed, and she propped the back door so she could get back in without the front office knowing. It only takes one selfish idiot to destroy a security plan. I couldn’t live with having done something like that.