Evaluating the Safety of a Keyless Entry System at a Junior College

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The purpose of this quantitative research case study was to investigate school safety and the effects of a newly implemented keyless entry system at a junior college located in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. This chapter will contain a review of the literature pertaining to school safety that includes the following components: recent history of school safety issues, prison effect of school safety plans, keyless entry systems, and vandalizing and theft.
School safety plans have had an increase in focus over the past decade due to the increase of televised coverage in mass school shootings. School officials relied upon the moral rationales that support aggressive street policing as they struggled to” reach the students” and make sense of the new disciplinary policies while maintaining their identities as educators (Garret, 2001). In reacting fashion, schools placed an emphasis on gun safety. As originally enacted on March 31, 1994 the Gun-Safe Schools Act (GFSA) required each state receiving Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds to have in effect a state law require local educational agencies LEAs to expel from school for a period of not less than one year a student who was determined to have brought a weapon to school (Thomas, 2006). The focus of trying to keep guns out of schools had administrators putting plans in place with little information as to what works for schools. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Educatiohttp://ed.grammarly.com/editor/content?page.paperReportKey=#n (2003) informed educators that they needed to add the possibility of terrorist attacks to the safety plans of schools knowing that this would stretch the ability of schools to meet the needs of the students and community. Reactions to school sho...

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...or the gym.
3. Coded to pride entry only on certain days or at specified hours.
4. Used also as identity and debit cards
5. Used also to control who enters particular parking lots.
The cost of a smart-card system can be costly up front, but saves money in the long run because of its effectiveness. The average price to change out a doors locking mechanism was about 500 dollars in the early 2000’s. Robers, Zhang, & Truman (2010) estimated from July 2008 through June 2009 there were more than 1.2 million nonfatal crimes at school, including 619,000 thefts, and countless acts of vandalism. School vandalism alone exceeds 1 billion dollars per year to school districts across the United States (Thomas, 2006). Garret (2001) research explained how most teachers and students believed that violence occurs in hallways or under staircases, in the cafeteria, in the parking lot

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