Breaking News About School Shootings

Breaking News: There are reports of a school shooting, this simple phrase sends a chill down any parent’s spine. In recent years, as there have been lots of school shooting from an elementary school in Connecticut to a college in Arizona. Parents will always say that the safest place for any child is the home, but when they are away from the home they feel that the school grounds are the second best place for their child to be. If they would talk to those parents that sent their children to school that tragic shooting day will those parents still say the same things. The parents of those kids assumed that the school was good place to be in then outside where there are guns, drugs and violence seen everywhere, the authors claim that classmates …show more content…
Many schools now require for all visitors to come inside the office and sign-in even if they are just dropping their children off in class, but what if the office is not the first thing in sight. At Reedley High the school’s office is located farther away, instead the first building anyone will notice will be several classroom buildings. Another school is Parlier High their office is located on the right side where there is a wide open area to the center of the school and to the side towards the library. When visitors enter the office at Parlier High they are asked who they are seeing and sign their name on a form they are never asked to show identification or check the relationship with the students. The staff don’t know that they are putting the students at risk because anyone can simply state the name of the students wait outside the office towards the parking lots and the staff will not notice if the student knows that person and be kidnapped or harmed. Being identified and checking in isn’t enough for the safety of the school, an extra step in security for all schools should be a proper search for any weapons by some certified security personnel. By searching all those who wish to enter the school ground prevents them from taking out a weapon and using it to do …show more content…
The only problem with the doors in the classroom is that they cannot be locked from the inside and don’t have a window placed on the doors to know who is knocking if it is ever locked. Both the professor and the students are putting their life in danger by opening the door without knowing who is behind it. This is a risky move to make because without knowing who is knocking the professor or students must open the door for the unknown person. If the attacker was in the campus and the staff was notified they would have needed to open the door and lock it from the outside quickly before been discovered by the