Originally Posted by ultramarina
Our school also has MANY doors to the outside. They dealt with this by putting up an 8-foot chain link perimeter fence. Most doors are also now locked during the school day.

At my child's preschool, which was also a private school, they put codes on all the doors.

There is also a police officer assigned to every school in my district now. YES. EVERY SCHOOL. I don't know if they are always there, but it seems like it. I shudder at the cost. I live in a mid-sized city without any notable history of shootings, gangs or school violence.

Assuming a police officer earning 100k covers a school with about 400 students full time for the school year, that's less than $200 per capita. That would be an interesting cost-benefit analysis to read. I wonder whether the spend was justified on the basis of threats to the children from within the school, from outside, or both.

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