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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere I am working you need a badge to go through
any door. You hold your badge before a box on the wall to unlock the door.
Even the main entrance is like that. Unless you are issued s badge you cant get in.
All the bathrooms have s key pad.
Would this work for school security?
Every student and teacher is issued a badge.
You would not be able to get in the building or any class room without a badge.
The doors open out. You have to call on s phone if you cant get in.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)PupCamo
(288 posts)if you really wanted to
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)It would also slow down the flow between classes. A 10 minute break between bells wouldn't work if kids had to queue at every classroom door.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Tough problems require tough dolutions
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)It's far easier to just have security at a main entrance like most schools have now. And none of these methods protect against "insider threat". A child hiding guns on them could just go right in using their badge.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)The risk is very low. Dramatically disrupting school life is not called for with such a low risk. We could spend ourselves to bankruptcy in every school district and still not prevent every event. Hell, some options like metal detectors actually help an attack. The mass queuing of people with limited exits makes them very vulnerable to an attack from the rear where a shooter would hardly need to aim.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)we had a very progressive high school with a brand new principle.
This principle would stand outside the main entrance every morning and greet all 800 students by name, sometimes with a handshake and quick question like "how is it going" or "you getting an A on your math test today?"
Every day, every student (along with the assistant principle and maybe a couple of teachers).
not only was it a light touch security check, it made you feel special.
He had a phenomenal memory for details.
Lucid Dreamer
(584 posts)If they implant the RFID chips, they can't forget them.
Scary, isn't it?
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)giving a grade school kid a badge? Many would always being losing it. Dont think it would work. Wish it would though.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)or a high-security military emplacement. The dehumanization isnt offset by the small increase in safety (seriously, statically the vast majority of kids will be just fine).
Plus, kids forget shit. My daughter goes to school in a non-traditional campus spread over several very busy downtown city blocks, surrounded by restaurants, offices, govt buildings, and a couple of museums. Because of this all the kids must wear lanyards with IDs which are constantly being left at home to be frantically delivered by harried parents in the mornings. Its a shitshow.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)are also students with badges...
The Sandy Hook killer shot his way through the doors...
AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)my late mom was a school teacher . during summer break shed work at another schoo district in east los angles. before school the teachers would have to lock themselves in the classroom before class. that is how bad the environment for those teachers was. shame teachers and others have to do this but , it is , what it is .
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)stuff all the time and so do their parents. After school they would have to wait to be picked up and we teachers had to wait with them. I spent over 1/2 hour a day helping adults and kids with cell phones try to find each other since none could remember their damn passwords or find their phones (like I am supposed to remember them for 25 kids???!!!). Badges would get lost, forgotten, etc. Besides, schools will bitch about the added costs too...just wait.