Public school security implementation

Education
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School shootings are a pressing concern in the United States, and there is a need for effective solutions to address this issue. In light of recent tragedies, it is important to focus on the safety and well-being of the students who are directly impacted. Despite significant investments in education, there has been little improvement in student safety or the perception of safety within schools.

One key lesson I have learned is the importance of prevention in ensuring personal safety and the safety of others. Therefore, I propose a reform of public school security systems and protocols. It is essential that all public schools receive funding specifically designated for security measures to safeguard everyone on school premises. Individualized security plans should be developed for each school based on its layout, and the surrounding communities should be informed of the security measures in place to act as a deterrent to potential threats.

Examples of security systems include:

  • Surveillance cameras inside and outside the school for quick access to video footage by Local Law Enforcement

  • Security team presence with off-duty police officers or military veterans

  • Door Access Control Systems for tracking and monitoring access to the school and movement within, using school ID badges to access via scanners

  • One Button Lockdown capability to quickly lockdown every door in the school and notify Law Enforcement

  • Lockdown gates to contain active shooters and deny access to the rest of the school

  • Automatic Gunshot Detectors for pinpointing shooter activity

  • Disorientation systems with strobe lights, high-frequency sirens, and smoke screens.

These technologies have proven effective in enhancing safety and peace of mind in schools that have already adopted them.

The safety of students should be a top priority, and it is imperative that meaningful steps are taken to ensure maximum security in schools. By implementing advanced security measures, we can work towards minimizing the risk of school shootings and creating a safer learning environment for all.

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I was amazed that the safety of our children was not discussed more during the election
proceedings. Parents should not have to choose to take a chance on their kids life by sending them to school or quitting their job to homeschool.
I loved that JD Vance called out one journalist about her saying ‘only a handful of apartment complexes were stormed by Venezuelan terrorist’. Well, the same should be for our children!! One school shooting was TOO many!
With ALL the security of the airports since 9/11, every court building in America, and even retail shops, surely our babies deserve to be kept safe! Almost all school age kids (even those as young as elementary school) suffer from anxiety about this issue. Most schools are having ‘drills’ to practice what to do in the event. This only magnifies their fears!
What needs to be done is a system of measured prevention tactics such as are mentioned in Mr. McCawley’s statement. Lockdown with ease in the event the school is compromised. Safety officers present to eliminate the threat immediately. Security cameras to alert local law officers at the moment firearms are seen. This is not rocket science! ALL of these measures are taken at other facilities to keep our homes and public buildings safe.
Let’s demand that immediate safety measures are taken at every school in America so our kids can stop worrying about dying and focus on their studies once again! NO parent should have to worry when they drop off their child that it might be the last time they see them because of some deranged psycho!

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Require nation wide closed campuses for all K-12 schools.

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I can’t believe this only has 5 votes. We have many of these measures in Arizona as well as fenced in closed campuses.

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Some 30 years ago some really idiotic ideas fluttered through the educational system, and the result was “open” schools with no fences, few walls, lots of windows, “gun free zone” signs on the front doors, and a “zero tolerance” policy toward even toy guns, even drawings of guns, even pop-tarts chewed into the shape of guns. The idea was that if the children were kept pure of any consciousness of violence, they’d never learn it. Of course that translated to no guards of any kind. In other words, the schools and the kids in them were kept completely defenseless.

Third, starting in the ‘70s, most of the ambulatory mentally ill were discharged from the mental hospitals and simply prescribed “anti-psychotic” pills. The result was inevitably some psychotics stopped taking their “meds”, slipped back into psychosis, and couldn’t help but notice all those easy victims. Worse mom, that’s when the fashion began of prescribing psychoactive medicines to children — for everything from liveliness (“hyperactivity”) to stubbornness (“oppositional defiance disorder”) to plain old depression. Nobody considered the long-term effects on children’s brains of prescribing all those drugs.

That’s when school shootings started. The reason they’ve continued is those idiotic school board members refused to give up their pretty theories in the face of reality; they still have a foolish “zero tolerance” rule, and only grudgingly allow one or two “school security” officers (assigned or moonlighting police) within their precious “gun free zones”. They still allow drugging of kids, and the states still refuse to lock up people with mental “issues” in mental hospitals, and the state educational departments refuse to spend the money needed to “harden” (fortify) the schools. This is an obvious recipe for disaster!

It’s not about guns, as those bombs the Santa Fe kids brought along prove. It’s about intellectual arrogance which stubbornly refuses to change despite reality smacking it again and again. Shootings happen, and the school boards and their cronies blame it on guns. Bombs show up, not yet actually used, and these fools ignore them.

Fortunately, wiser heads elsewhere are demanding logic and realistic answers. More than 20 states now allow, if not encourage, school employees to get training, obtain CCW permits, arm themselves, and carry their guns concealed while in school. Town and county governments are willing to come up with the money to build fences, install security cameras, put bullet-proof panels in doors, windows, whiteboards, desks and backpacks, and leave doors locked during classes.

So, to answer your question, we have so many school slaughters (presently with guns) because of stupid, arrogant, stubborn idealists who refuse to give up their precious theories, and have thereby left our schools and students helpless before endless ranks of drug-addled, violent lunatics. Is it any wonder they want to blame guns-guns-guns to divert attention from themselves?

Ban gun free zones!