re: Securing Schools - How I would start with most schools.

Most prisons don’t have all that, and who is going to pay for this ?

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$300k and they expected to pay $5k in maintenance

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Well yall were getting ripped off, lol.

that was the point

Every school should have a moat filled with alligators, drawbridge, 20-ft-high fence and a half-dozen armed guards posted up in watchtowers.

Imagine being stupid enough to think your pistol would fend off the world’s strongest military.

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Every school should have a moat filled with alligators, drawbridge, 20-ft-high fence and a half-dozen armed guards posted up in watchtowers.

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That sounds expensive and a bit overkill.

I'm not saying schools should be prisons.

But I do think they could be a little more secure and made a harder target.

You don't have to make them impenetrable, just a harder target.

Society isnt gonna go for arming teachers or allowing shools to be a gun allowed zone.


Some of yall want to arm everyone, some of yall want gun restrictions, some of yall want three trained and armed guards with ARs, and some of yall want to do nothing.

I'm trying to come up with a solution that would help and the majority of people might agree to.

1. I’m certain this would cost far more than you think, at least assuming you want the measures you described to actually work.

2. Do kids not get recess anymore under your plan?

3. Many schools have multiple buildings that often require students to move between them. E.g. a separate cafeteria, gym, etc.

4. Perhaps most importantly - if some psychopath wants to go on a killing spree, he will find a way around these measures. Do they make it more difficult? Sure. But not enough to reasonably hinder someone who is planning this kind of thing. Turning entire schools into safe rooms isn’t the answer. There are just too many things to account for, and it only takes one innocent get getting shot for the entire premise to fail. We need to deal with the psychopaths.

The one thing I would agree with is putting fences around school properties and keeping doors to the outside of the fence line locked. Someone can still cut through a chain link fence fairly easily but at least that’s going to draw a ton of suspicion in broad daylight.

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Many schools have multiple buildings that often require students to move between them. E.g. a separate cafeteria, gym, etc.

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I did say how I would start with most schools.

Not every school is the same.

Yes many have outside buildings and even trailers kids go between.

But when schools are less secure than my work that does kind of bother me.

Are kids allowed recess, of course.

They just aren't sitting ducks in a classroom hiding under their desk.

Should be the #1 thing, minus the underline

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All exterior doors are metal and always locked from the outside. No glass where someone could shoot through and open. Visitors have to be buzzed in.

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I know it’s not as easy in a larger school, but you should have the ability to buzz in/out any visitors, and I don’t think it would take any more man power or staff.