CeeScraps
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Post by CeeScraps on Feb 15, 2018 21:59:10 GMT
parent conferences and holiday parties?
What does your school do? I will tell you what mine does after I read some posts. I will say you're not gonna like it, at least the staff doesn't.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Feb 15, 2018 22:02:51 GMT
Well at the public school we used to be at, you would need to ring in (locked doors), sign the book at the front office and wear a visitor tag on regular days (non special events). For teacher conferences the doors were open and anyone could come in or out and no visitor book or badge. For Holiday parties, you need to check like regular days and also to volunteer usually you had already filled out paperwork but I don't think they do a background check.
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johnnysmom
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Post by johnnysmom on Feb 15, 2018 22:03:23 GMT
Small (tiny!) school, parent-teachers conferences are on a non-school day/evening. The elementary is unlocked, the middle/high school conferences are held in the gym and the doors nearest there is unlocked (I assume the remaining doors are locked). School parties at the elementary school, the doors are locked and parents are supposed to check in in the office after being buzzed in. No parties at the middle/high school.
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Post by peano on Feb 15, 2018 22:08:21 GMT
Our local HS has a security guard in a kiosk near the entry to the school parking lot in the morning, a security officer posted inside the school's entryway who buzzes people in through an intercom system. Obviously no holiday parties at this age, but at evening events like conferences, there's just the security guard at the entry.
The new Sandy Hook school has a much more elaborate security system, part of which I'm sure the general public probably doesn't know about.
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Post by LeaP on Feb 15, 2018 22:09:50 GMT
No security, you just walk in through any number of gates and doors.
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 15, 2018 22:25:47 GMT
When there are students at school, doors are locked and you have to be buzzed in two sets of doors, have to sign in and have to wear a name tag.
During conferences, or after school, doors are unlocked and you just walk in...
During events, the school district usually sends a security guard (or the school asks for one). At the middle school there is one permanently one on staff.
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Post by mom on Feb 15, 2018 22:29:56 GMT
There was an attempt at school security - they locked 3 out of the 4 front doors. So if you try to open the 3 locked doors, then you have to push a button to be ringed in. If you know to go the last door on the right, it is unlocked and you can just walk in. So security fail on that part....
All other exterior doors are locked (or are supposed to be).
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 15, 2018 22:38:27 GMT
Parent conferences were always held during non-student days and the doors were unlocked for the parents to enter freely.
In elementary school the doors were locked except the half hour before school started. Parents needed to enter the office which is unlocked for the half an hour before school and half hour after for tardies. You sign in, get a name tag and then you're buzzed through a second door to access the actual school. No parents were at holiday parties in middle or now high school.
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CeeScraps
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Post by CeeScraps on Feb 15, 2018 22:42:36 GMT
Our district.......
Doors are all locked. Playground ladies have keys to get back into the building. Ring bell/camera at the main door.
Conferences........doors all unlocked......0 security
Parties.......come on in........front door unlocked, but you don't go through the office. Once in the building you are to check in (your name is on a paper list) at the gym. No security check. The names are provided by the teacher. Can anyone enter the building? Yes....they can be there until check in. After check in then security starts up again.
It amazes me...........so come on in when the building is wide open and there are a number of people walking around because there is no security used.
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Post by just PEAchy on Feb 15, 2018 22:42:56 GMT
My kids are past the school party age, but I do know that at every school in our district, all doors are locked & there is only 1 door which you can enter after being buzzed in. All visitors must immediately check in with the receptionist. Parent teacher conferences are always held after hours, everyone must enter through 1 open door, but there is no sign in.
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Post by Tammiem2pnc1 on Feb 15, 2018 22:44:49 GMT
Holiday parties when school is in session we have to ring a bell and be let in, all other doors in the school are locked. There is video surveillance so the office could see who is at the door. We then go straight in the office, sign in and get name tag. To go on field trips we need to have criminal and child abuse clearances. Parent/teacher conferences were generally held in the evening or an off student day. My boys both do online charter schools now, so I no longer have to deal with all of that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 22:46:03 GMT
During normal school hours, it's get buzzed in through one door, into the office, sign in, get a badge, and know that if you are carrying a large bag, it may get searched (no metal detectors here). Thankfully, the office staff largely recognizes me as the one who handles the band uniforms so they're used to seeing me coming in with a box full of stuff.
After school, conferences, events, there's usually at least one security person around and often an uniformed police officer during events/sports. Doors are unlocked and you can wander in and out at your pleasure.
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Post by betty on Feb 15, 2018 22:47:38 GMT
My oldest two kids attend a pretty rough school. It has more than double the amount of violence than any other school in our district. There are 8 gangs operating in the school and we have had an influx of thousands of Puerto Rican students throughout the district. The PR students are not liked by some of the other Hispanic groups and tensions are running high.
There are fights all the time. Tuesday there were 3 fights on campus. The principle was knocked to the ground during one of them. There have been two group fights this week at the bus stop. A parent broke up one of them and alerted us all on the NextDoor app right away.
So security on campus is probably not as great as some other schools though I think they do ok at tracking visitors.
Our HS has two armed officers on campus. The sheriff's cars are parked in front of the school. Entry is thru the front office only where you sign in, show an id and get a visitor pass. All volunteers and chaperones for field trips must pass a background test 3 weeks prior to the trip or date of first volunteering in school for that school year.
During events a couple of gates are open but staff is placed at each side of the opening. It is the same when students arrive in the mornings but sometimes they bring in dogs and/or portable metal detectors and have the students go thru as they enter.
Today there was a copy cat threat made to shoot up the school. A 14 year old freshman made the threat.
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Post by hop2 on Feb 15, 2018 22:49:17 GMT
If children are in the building
Buzzed in
Must show state issues ID
Sign in
Even to drop off a forgotten lunch.
And yet, they do not look into any bag you leave with the lunch or gym clothes in it they jst tell you to put it on the table next to them.
I’m like - that’s not security! I could be leaving a weapon or bomb in the bag if you don’t look in it. I mean I wasn’t it was gym clothes but I could.
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Post by pierkiss on Feb 15, 2018 23:11:59 GMT
We have to get buzzed in through the front doors. Then we walk into the office and say “I’m here for the conference or the party” and one of the 2 secretaries or the principal says “ok, you can just go down to the classrooms”. No sign in required for those 2 events, which I find odd.
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Post by Merge on Feb 15, 2018 23:32:44 GMT
Doors are locked during the school day and people have to be buzzed in and sign in at the office. But for evening events like conferences or concerts, the front doors are left open. The principal at my old school told me I was being ridiculous for thinking that was a security concern, when I was the only staff member on campus during concerts.
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Post by rickmer on Feb 15, 2018 23:34:06 GMT
dd's high school is open. you can walk right in. we live in the largest urban city in the country. all high schools in toronto are not like that.
some high schools had police officer programs in them. they were recently voted out so the school liaison program is no longer. apparently it made some kids feel unsafe.
middle/elementary school, you have to be buzzed in and they request you report to the office first.
on conference days, all doors are open and no kids in class, but daycare is open. for evening holiday concerts, etc door are open
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Post by azredhead on Feb 16, 2018 0:10:11 GMT
The elementary around the corner has the buzzed in system, there is a gate as well, but I don't know how that's regulated. I know a lot of the kids that go there, the high school has a gate. but here like Florida schools have pods, or seperate buildings. It's not all one building. The big high school as I mentioned has a gate all the way around. We know a lot of the teachers and kids not having kids but from church and other community things It's all not far apart.
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