Elementary School Shooting in Connecticut

[Watson]

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Classrooms locked @ all times... simple yet potentially so effective.

Not only would that break fire codes, that would be just distracting to class everytime a 8 year old had to go to the bathroom or to the office.

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Man all the counseling and years people are going to need to feel somewhat normal one day because of this

I mean you just caused all kinds of heartache and trauma....

This is just enraging

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[NYJets]

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I think that's too much. They're not asking kids to describe the scene like you'd see it in Call Of Duty. Most of the testimonies I've heard from the kids where just about the gunshots or about them taking shelter and weren't too graphic, and the kids themselves didn't look like they were struggling with the answers.


Like it or not, the kids are eyewitness sources, and that's what you have to go by. Nobody said you had to watch the coverage. Twitter supplies details as they go along.

Don't think I've disagreed more with a post in all my time at OS.

[Burns11]

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Not locked both ways, just so no one random can come in. Maybe install fire escape doors that only open from the inside.

Either way, it is depressing that in that scenario, a school day would always be under a code red.

How about a simple "buzz to get in" system for the building? That way any visitors could be sent through the office as a filter before anybody could get anywhere close to a kid. Guy looks shady, you hit a button to get a cop there and don't buzz him in. Buzz a guy in and he seems shady, the secretary calmly leaves the room then hits a lockdown button.

[gerg1234]

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What I am hearing is the picture and Facebook is not his, but the Twitter profile page is his.

what's the twitter handle?

[Watson]

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Not locked both ways, just so no one random can come in. Maybe install fire escape doors that only open from the inside.

Again, children, constantly leaving to go to the office and the bathroom. It's just impractical. Not only that, most schools are on a budget crunch, and this one school in a small town doesn't appear to be rolling in the black.

[C the Lyte]

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Then there needs to be ways to stop the crazy person.

It's one thing for this to happen at the workplace where grown men can overpower a gunman. It's another when it's at a school filled with (mainly) women and children

Impossible.

[Chrisksaint]

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Classrooms locked @ all times... simple yet potentially so effective.

Wouldn't really work out in regards to daily classroom life, what may work is going back to the idea of some type of officer being around. In 5th grade we had a suspicious guy around school so they immediately go on the intercom say a certain code and all of a sudden the teachers are closing blinds, turning off lights, locking the door, telling students to be quiet, etc.

Unfortunately if this shooter was a son of a teacher at the school then he probably was not seen as suspicious unless he just barged in(Idk there policies/entrances in regards to walking in) or was waving a gun around in which case there should have been a lockdown.

[Jr.]

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How about a simple "buzz to get in" system for the building? That way any visitors could be sent through the office as a filter before anybody could get anywhere close to a kid. Guy looks shady, you hit a button to get a cop there and don't buzz him in. Buzz a guy in and he seems shady, the secretary calmly leaves the room then hits a lockdown button.

The school system sent out a letter and said they have this system in place, I believe. They read the letter on CNN, but that was a couple of hours ago, so I can't remember exactly what the system in place was.

[Mo]

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what's the twitter handle?

Doest matter, it's not him.

[C the Lyte]

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Again, children, constantly leaving to go to the office and the bathroom. It's just impractical. Not only that, most schools are on a budget crunch, and this one school in a small town doesn't appear to be rolling in the black.

Understand your points, but given this black eye on all of humanity, how impractical is too impractical, and how much $ is too much?

[Motown]

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How about a simple "buzz to get in" system for the building? That way any visitors could be sent through the office as a filter before anybody could get anywhere close to a kid. Guy looks shady, you hit a button to get a cop there and don't buzz him in. Buzz a guy in and he seems shady, the secretary calmly leaves the room then hits a lockdown button.

They in fact just installed this very system 2wks ago...his mother worked at the school as a teacher, & he was BUZZED in.

[areobee401]

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The school system sent out a letter and said they have this system in place, I believe. They read the letter on CNN, but that was a couple of hours ago, so I can't remember exactly what the system in place was.

I know at my girlfriend's elementary school you must be buzzed in to enter the school. I believe most if not all elementary schools do the same exact thing.

But as Motown just pointed out. His mother was a teacher there. So no one thought it was concerning.

[Burns11]

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Wouldn't really work out in regards to daily classroom life,

I don't see why not, I remember many classrooms over the years where the doors were locked at all times. It was kind of up to the teacher's discretion, lock the door (door always able to be opened from inside, locked from outside) or don't lock it. It didn't seem disruptive, in fact looking back they were the classrooms least likely to be disrupted.

[Pokes]

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Doest matter, it's not him.

Feel sorry for that kid, he's been labeled as the shooter across all major media.