Importance Of School Safety Essay

School safety has become a main focus in the education system over the past several years. It seems that schools are becoming the target of violent crimes. Every year teachers sit through in services training them with new ideas that are being implemented to keep students safe. Schools in our area are very old and when they were built violence was not an issue. School administrators now have to take these old schools and make them safe and functional without making them feel like a prison. Majority of the schools are open to the community and not closed off as they should be. The windows also are an area of concern when it comes to safety. Most schools have multiple windows per classroom that exposes students and faculty to outside …show more content…
The schools that are exposed to the community need a plan which will keep unwanted intruders out. Most schools have surveillance cameras located in specific locations that can monitor the traffic of the entrances. I believe this is not enough to ensure safety. Once an intruder is in the camera does nothing for the safety of the students and faculty members. In order to eliminate and monitor unwanted quest, I believe a school should have only one entrance for ques and all other entrances should remained locked at all times. This would be monitored and watched closely. A desk should be right in the front of this entrance to make sure everyone signs in and is correctly identified. Safety is not only an issue when students are inside but also when students are outside at recess. The schools are open and often do not have a fence around them which causes a danger when you have 300 plus students outside. This is where you have to balance safety and avoiding the school feeling like a prison. The main goal is to protect the students but in reality there will be times that this cannot happen. We have to let the students feel safe and free. Once we start locking them in chain fences they will no longer feel like students. I believe as long as we have a plan implemented and practiced for different situations this will support the safety of everyone on the …show more content…
I believe a school resource officer should be located at every school. This officer should let the students know that they are there for the safety of the students. I do not believe the officer should be a disciplinarian unless it is a major crime. The SRO should be used to protect the students from outside intruders and of course any dangerous situation in the school itself. Besides an officer being located at each school some may say all teachers need to be armed. I do not believe a teacher should have access to a gun in the classroom. This gives me a little anxiety just thinking of this. I do not feel confident enough that I nor anyone else is fully trained to use that gun appropriately. I do believe a teacher does need some form of protection and an alternative to a gun could be a Taser. The Taser will not kill anyone but it would allow you to get the situation under control and buy some time until help