An Exclusive Look At New Security Measures To Keep Schools Safe

With students gearing up to return to classrooms, schools are taking a closer look at ways to keep everyone safe - including investing in new technology. NBC’s senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY.
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#Kids #Safety #BackToSchool

[@knjmoorhouse5093]

This is a good start; however, what measures are in place to take care of the root problem? Many of these school shooters are bullied students or former students. It is extremely important to make kindness and empathy an integral part of school culture. Children spend a large part of their weeks at school. Building community and fostering a loving and nurturing environment is extremely important for the youngsters' mental health and academic success.

[@whonoseanyway9242]

That's not the agenda. Once the USA is disarmed, then the ruling class can bring in their NWO totalitarian Communist rule. Schools will become redundant. Everyone will be under lockdown living in the Metaverse. Rations will be delivered by drones. The dissidents will be used as factory and farm slaves. The schools are now being prepared for future prisoners, and the prisoners will be used for body parts for the elites. Most will be killed off.

[@Gh0stwhipz]

Yeah what are we going to do about the dangers of social media and how they affect these kids negatively. The new divisive culture that promotes censorship and things that make no sense like gender identity.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

American schools look horrible.

[@None-ef6nf]

The "bullied student" myth has been debunked. It started on a false premise with Columbine in 1999. Both Klebold and Harris had a steady social group, part time jobs, and one even had a girlfriend. Neither one was "bullied" Nikolas Cruz *was* the school bully at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and was repeatedly disciplined for bullying other students before he was ultimately expelled.

[@suncu91]

I remember,15 years ago, when I was in high school. The news about US school shootings spread to Europe and we had to discuss what we thought about it. The most common comment was "Even if someone wanted to do a school shooting, where would they find a gun?"

[@tyshawnwheeler4702]

You guys should have that at every school🙏🙏

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Imagine living in a country where schools need security guards.

[@conservativedragon]

It wasn't like that in the 1990s no more dangerous today in was back then

[@roserainbird2365]

Buys fancy door handles, doesn’t ban guns, very American 🙄

[@Republican_Banana]

With so many security measures, why would parents even send their kids to a place that isn't safe in the first place?

[@TheMentalHealthToolbox]

Thank you for touching on this all-important topic 🙏

[@dustinford18]

We need this at my school.

[@cko-]

Oh weird every student needs to take compromises that the gun-users don’t have to.

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

Funny how 50 years ago kids had access to Firearms young adults had access to Firearms plenty of firearms around but we didn't have situations like this. Seems to me we've had a change in people not a change in processes or firearms

[@maplessence]

I feel traumatised just watching this. Who would want to be a teacher in the States now?

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Who would want to send their kid to a school in the states?

[@julfasultana9280]

This makes me really sad 💔

[@robertskolimowski7049]

As the guy said, teachers didn't sign up for that, no surprise there's a shortage of teachers in the country. All of those hard-to-stomach (or indeed, tragic) security measures wouldn't be even needed, kids would be spared trauma, if only the US wasn't almost completely controlled by the gun industry/lobby, very very sad😔

[@roserainbird2365]

Honestly I wouldn’t expect something like this for a school in a horror film. The fact this is a real country and real children is just f*cked up. Do they even know what it’s like to live in a country that’s so much safer for their children? Do any of them actually give a sh*t about their own child’s safety?

[@tyshawnwheeler4702]

You guys should have that I love you school🙏

[@Oneofakind123]

Just remove the doors. Doors are the problem…

[@victoriahammond9061]

My daughter actually breached 4 schools in our district after pleading for more safety precautions and is now facing 8 charges!!

[@kjdee140]

Why?

[@sparkle618]

This is all good but notice that they were never scanned by metal detectors or baggage x-Ray. They just let them in. All the schools have to do is simply copy the model of courts and airports. Courts and airports don’t experience shootings , period. If there is a breach, then the gunfight takes place at the entrance not the classroom.

[@BrowncoatGofAZ]

You have ideas for sources of funding, especially for public schools, we’re all ears. To be frank, I agree though. I just can’t believe schools in this country need this now.

[@sparkle618]

@@BrowncoatGofAZ It’s all going to be up to the state legislature now isn’t it? In my state, some of the districts are buying 90 million dollar football stadiums. It’s always about the money. What about state lottery money?They always have it earmarked for something else. I thought by now after all that has occurred, we would finally get the hint that the threat is not going away. Fact is, were not serious with this yet or we would copy the method that is in place at airports. There is no getting around it.

[@mst8521]

I agree !!!

[@codyallred5553]

What about the outside perimeter? If you prevent the problem from happening inside the perimeter, you solve the problem.

[@Music-pq8cm]

Those electronic locks could be an issue during a fire. Make sure they can be overridden (locked and unlocked) from the inside.

[@mrwayne5158]

Now this is more like it 🙂

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Do you Americans really think this is normal?

[@mrwayne5158]

@@mildlydispleased3221 It isnt normal but it is necessary

[@mildlydispleased3221]

@@mrwayne5158 I couldn't imagine the idea of security at a school. Even in the most dangerous areas.

[@mst8521]

@@mrwayne5158common sense I agree with you

[@mst8521]

⁠@@mildlydispleased3221 so Your oblivious to the world and its violence

[@Thatonesleepyfox]

Listen, I'm happy there putting this stuff in place but maybe you shouldn't show people all of the measures, just seems like a bad idea...

[@reinettbernardo2779]

Should be a metal/gun detector booth before going into where you have driver's checked as gunman can shoot that security, press buttons to get access through next doors. Thank goodness we have not really had this problem in our South African schools.

[@Panduzzle]

very smart

[@Panduzzle]

i get scared in my school because when i'm in the library studying it's right by the front door and the study area is right by the open door. my mom can just enter the school by saying she's evan lugo's mom. say someone's brother came in my school they could just say they were the dad if they were older.

[@lisaingram785]

The school needs to practice these drills with the students, to prepare them to get to a safezone

[@ATARI-DAVE-73]

😂🤣😂🤣😂so a tunnel to Australia in every classroom in America. Or you could stop making laws easier for anyone to buy guns.......ya could, ya did but then Republicans changed the laws. Now how many kids do you have that go to school ATM?

[@Jezballz]

North Carolina is arming some schools with AR-15's...LOVE IT!!!

[@chitraswami7767]

🎉🎉

[@maxx8942]

They should have trained dogs with the trainer.. dog's will attack in a heartbeat..

[@F5_cena]

This is prison tactics

[@slackjaw2643]

Complain about everything. You want people to stop killing kids but don’t want to get rid of guns or do extra for these crazy people so yeah they get to live prison life. That’s for your freedom that’s the cost

[@oliviachampommier5481]

Sometimes in order to combat evil you have to take extreme measures for evil to think twice

[@robertskolimowski7049]

@@oliviachampommier5481 How about u don't create that evil in the first place? The US, (for a few other reasons my dream destination), the only western democracy almost completely controlled by the gun industry/lobby, sad.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

@@oliviachampommier5481 Says the only country where this is an issue.

[@austinhowells20]

Trump said their to many people