The Need for Greater Security in Schools

All around the world, there is violence in schools that is so serious many students, teachers, and other staff members get seriously injured, or even killed. In the United States, there have been really serious school massacres that have killed and severely injured many students and staff members. Technology is increasing and people are finding more ways to get into trouble, the principal one being violence with weapons. Most buildings, including schools, have minimum or even no security and almost anybody can make their way in and out of the premises without being arrested. The goal of this paper is to let readers know that security is a key factor, particularly in schools.

My plan is to have four sections in my paper, all revolving around the ideas and reasons why to secure schools. At first I am going to talk about training and arming staff members to protect themselves, and the students. Second ill go into talking about security every entrance point, so nobody can enter without permission. In the third section I am going to talk about student and staff identification, as that is another key factor. My fourth section will include getting an emergency plan with frequent tests.

ARMING/TRAINING STAFF

Most schools are already demanding that all staff members take some sort of training. Self-defense classes are applied virtually anywhere and are also inexpensive, so money wouldn’t be an issue there. Only five states allow staff members to carry concealed weapons, but more states are trying to pass the law. The slim, black 9-millimeter handguns that the school superintendent David Hopkins selected for his teachers weigh about a pound and slip easily into a pocket. Sixteen people, including the janitor and a kindergarten teacher,...

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...ir doors in a way to stay hidden from any harm. If the intruder is smart enough, they can easily make their way through the school without being caught. That is where the emergency lock downs come into action. National School Safety and Security Services provide school emergency planning evaluations to help schools identify strengths and areas to build upon for creating school emergency plans that not only look good on paper, but stand a better chance of working effectively in a real emergency. Most school leaders know their schools have plans. They just don’t know whether their plans have appropriate or questionable content, if staff have adequately been trained for emergency preparedness, what type of testing and exercising of plans can be done in a reasonable amount of time, and how to improve the chances of what is on paper working in a real emergency (Trump).