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Posted over 2 years ago Do you feel safe at work? What does your school do to ensure your safety- or what could they do better? |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I think my school should have tighter security up front. Right now, a parent volunteer kind of "guards" the door and there's a lose sign sheet that people may fill out. I think it would be better to have a stricter policy. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago We are getting a new security system this week. We are a church/school combination so it can be scary to think who may be wandering the school without supervision from the church side. We are getting key pad doors, a full time police officer, and new security cameras installed this year. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago It terrifies me that schools have to have metal detectors these days. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago ktenkely, it sounds like your school is both lucky to have the resources to afford a security system and police officer, and unlucky to have to utilize such measures. Do you think there's any hope in a student monitoring system? Or are those types of plans doomed to be way, way too dorky and geeky to actually hold any power? On another note, I remember that the security code on every school I went to was either "1,1,1,1" or "1,2,3,4". I wonder have things have changed since then. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago ktenkely said: Was there a school incident that prompted these measures either with your school or a surrounding one? |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Jill said: We are close to Columbine so of course that is always on our minds. We also had a death threat that made it more urgent. My school is very committed to student safety though, it is part of our mission statement and we really strive to do all we can to keep our students safe. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I do feel safe at my middle school. However back in high school I had police on my campus. Boys got jumped sometimes but I never saw weapons. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Our high school has three police officers and four security guards-yet I still do not feel safe. My students talk about how they rob convenience stores all the time!! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Unsubstantiated threats have been made this year and the school searched students and prohibited backpacks for 2 days. We have a police liason officer, but our school is 550,000 square feet! That's a lot of ground to cover for 1 officer and 2 campus monitors. Thankfully nothing serious has happened. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Police, locked doors, security guards are all fine, but what are YOU doing to make your class and students a harder target? Do you know how to barricade your door? Do you know what you would do that very moment that violence errupts? I doubt the police or guards are going to be standing right there. Get trained on what to do!!! There is training available. YOU have to be ready to take care of yourself and your students!!! Check out www.responseoptions.com |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Currin said: Actually, it should make you feel safer. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I worry much more about student safety than teacher/staff safety. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago If we go back to Erikson's model, we know people have to first feel safe or you can't move to the higher levels where learning takes place. Teachers/staff must feel safe or they can't teach. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago First let me say I feel safe most of the time at my regular site. My new assignment puts me in an out-of-the-way computer room two nights a wk. from 6:00- 9:15pm at a local elementary. I'm teaching adults at this elementary school or at least I should be..however no students are showing up. I don't think anyone can find the classroom. This stuffy computer room has about 25 computers crammed together, no windows, and it's just off from a small junky school library. There is a stuffed eagle in a glass case, and a stuffed meerkat. A miniture skeleton, was thrown across the top of one of the cases and the place was full of dust. In addition one of the computers in the back room made a loud, continuous hissing sound and let's just say the janitor was a strange sort. ...maybe I will consider a job at the penetentiary. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Whole Smoke, sounds like there are quite a few issues that need to be addressed. As a former principal, let me give you some advice. Put into writing your concerns and the solution you seek. Be specific that you see this as a matter of safety, both security and a possible fire hazard. Send it to the supervisor of that room (I assume the principal). Ask for immediate remedy based on the fact it is a SAFETY issue and you would like to be kept abreast of the progress on the work order. If a week goes by and you hear nothing, send a second notice. State it is a second request, you still feel it is a safety issue. This time send it to the principal and cc the next level of supervision and the director of maintenance. Use the chain of command!!!! The fact that you state it is a safety issue can help your principal by giving them the power to list the request as urgent. Many times a principal will put in a work order and it gets put on the "list" but unless it is a safety issue, they will get to it when they get to it. Hope this helps. |
