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Have a friend that is a teacher?
chme
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While the debate on school security goes on and on, there is a small fairly cheap thing you can do that does not require politician or school board approval.
Go by a store, buy your friend a couple or 3 rubber door stops. Have them stick them in desk or briefcase or purse.
Most classroom doors open in. If you kick a couple of those under the door near the knob side, you cannot kick that door open- and you do not have to stand at the door making yourself a target.
It will cost about as much as a cup of coffee.
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After a school shooting years ago,i mentioned to a JR college security guard that they might arm the teachers. that upset him.
Not a good idea. Just about any kind of gadget to hold classroom doors closed are prohibited by the Life Safety Code (NFPA 101).
Imagine a wounded teacher with a classroom full of frightened children. If the rescue team can't enter the classroom with a master key, they will have to wait for the tactical team with their breaching tool kit to get in. Too much time.
Neal
Any gadget that is easily removed after code 4 would not be objectionable after the fact.
Simply remove the door stop and put it back in the desk drawer.
"Officer I have not idea as to why you couldn't open that door. Maybe it was just stuck!"
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
good idea for the door stops
a friend and co-worker his wife taught school she was one of the first group of teachers in Ohio to be allowed to have access to a gun and that was at least 8 to ten years ago a lot of pressure for the state and schools to get passed . but any way she trained with the local police for xx amount weeks per him there regular training and riding with them also in class rooms and also on firearms and shooting and had to pass the same test . she had been around guns her entire life and odds are could out shoot most of the police LOL , just a small town but never know
It ain't hard to outshoot cops, unless the cop is also a gun enthusiast,
I was top of my class in every department contest, and I wasn't that good.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Folks........just google Harrold ISD, Texas .
In their case......."when seconds count"........their "help" is 30 minutes away.
As far as I know, their "security system" has worked perfectly.........since 2007.
Important food for thought.
My friend is a really, really smart teacher. She retired.
The failure of psychiatry to predict, identify and successfully treat the mentally ill will continue; unlike true science, there has not been a single law, prophylactic claim or epistemic advance to come out of the "discipline" in 120 years, with no reasoned expectation that the next 120 years will be any different. That sad fact combined with the abject failure of 20,000 gun laws already in existence to prevent such events, we are left with but one alternative for our schools: 24/7 monitored security fencing with one-gate campus entry/exit; student, teacher and administrative personnel picture badge swipe access only, employing TSB/airport pre-boarding procedures and techniques. No playground or assembly activities; no after-hours activities. Monitored video surveillance of all hallways, stairwells and classroom doors. Picture badge swipe access only to classrooms; once class begins, entry/exit controlled by teacher. Non-opening, bullet-proof windows throughout, blast-resistant classroom doors, identical to cockpit doors now installed on commercial aircraft. Level IV protective vests worn by students, teachers and administrative personnel at all times while on campus. Teacher "panic button" under classroom desk to alert emergency personnel. Ah, the total academic experience.
My sister was a high school teacher in East Tennessee until she retired 2 years ago after 30 years of service. And service was what it was like for the last 10 years or so of her career. She put up with a lot more BS than I ever would have. I would have been fired before the first day was out.
There was a bunch of sorry liberal SOB's that took over the school system during her last few years on the job. But they never changed her attitude and I've always been proud to be related to her. Any thug that thought they would have an easy target breaking into her classroom to do a little plinking at an unarmed teacher and students would have been in for one hell of a big surprise.