The Importance Of School Safety

Imagine going to school and you cannot help but think about a stranger being able to walk right in through the doors with a weapon and start to attack the school. Nowadays that is the case with many schools. School safety is knowing that when you are at school there is no life threatening danger. The only thing that should be on your mind is what you have been doing in school, and what you will do. School safety has changed since schools first started, in the past mass school shootings were not as common as they are today. One of the many reasons for this is building safety and security, and how revised rules and technology can play a big role in improving safety. Schools need to stay locked down from the outside at all times. It is not hard

Students and can have ID cards that have ProxCard technology. ProxCard technology is standard at most workplaces, it is required for employees to punch in and out during shifts. So when students arrive to school they would have to scan into the school system to enter the school. Having metal detectors at every entrance of the school is another option, but it would require staff to watch over incase students set the metal detector to go off. Also with a morning procedure where students are checked if they are carrying any weapons can leave a big impact. We could implement gated and properly fenced school compounds where anyone entering the school must be required to provide proper identification to gain access to the school property. And any “visitor” would be required to register with the security and provide reason for visitation to the school. It would make it a lot harder to break into a school. This would enhance the security of the school and discourage anyone thinking of causing mass harm to the students and

We can implement the new currently available technology and revise old rules and codes of conduct. The only way to prevent these mass school shootings is to improve old ways. Yes it would be quite expensive to implement all the new technologies that are available. However, can we really put a price on our safety as mass school shootings are becoming ever so common and is hurting all students concentrating on what is important and staff from performing their best without worrying about what might happen at any given