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Security
How I see the real world
It is unfortunate that the world is no longer a safe place. Locking doors and watching our backs is the reality of life today. It is also unfortunate that there are so many influences that encourage and cause dangerous behavior and activities; but this is just the way things are, so be prepared for it.
Schools need to take control
A school has responsibility in setting boundaries. Schools have a thick handbook of rules, yet they are not enforced with confidence. Hall monitors and teachers cannot be intimidated by students. They have to be stern and gain control of the room in their presence. A fragile and weak adult will not monitor unpredictable teen behavior well. You can compare school authority to the jungle: the weak are eaten alive by the strong.
A teacher needs to be just as strong in gaining control of their classroom. Make your rules clear on day one, and enforce them throughout the year. Remove the students from class that disturbing the class from learning. Teachers cannot deal with everything, so send a disruptive student to someone who can.
Overall, a school needs to show more visual supervision. This will detour any fights, bullying, drug dealing, and other negative behaviors from occurring.
What are researchable possibilities?
Security of our children, especially in schools, is beyond a simple solution. However, there are some things you should be thinking about:
- How can one security personnel overlook a school of hundreds of students?
- Can one security personnel feel safe breaking up a fight by themself?
- Will drug-sniffing dogs help detour the bringing in of drugs into schools?
- Is there supervision in every hallway or just a few?
- Are there noticeable patterns set by monitors and security personnel to allow events to go on without their notice?
- Who is teaching our youth about the dangers of drugs, bullying, and peer pressure?
- Are all the doors locked in the school to keep intruders out?
- What is the true objective for the parking lot attendant?
A hall monitor is good at pointing out rules broken in the dresscode. A math teacher is good at teaching math. A principal is good at running the school; however, nobody has the trained eye for security because it is not their job. The faculty hold enough responsibilities to carry that burden.
I think it's time that our schools develop a security department that consists of professional security personnel. It should have a department head that will oversee all aspects of security. All incidents, if any, will be reported to the principal but handled by the professionally trained security department.
Why should schools be leaving security in the hands of people that hold no experience in that area?