Summary: The Barracude Intruder Defense System

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The Barracude Intruder Defense System
School Safety has been in the news of late and the scenes of crying children, bodies being hauled off on gurney’s, imagines of faces in shock or just a black bag being carried away are unsettling. As a teacher, one of your worst nightmares is that your school and even your classroom become a potential target for a student or someone walking in off the street that is on a rampage shooting without _________.
The speaker system announces there has been a shooting in the building or reports and intruder with unknown intentions, and you the Teacher are ordered to secure in place. You lock the door, turn off the lights, order the children in your charge to stay quiet and to get on the ground. Will that little

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