How Safe Are Our Schools?

You decide.

I grabbed these from a pile in my daughter’s closet.

On Thursday, I left work. The frustration of not being heard — over and over again.

I work 4.7 miles from Stoneman Douglas High School and yet….

1. We don’t have a perimeter fence. Anyone can park in the lot and walk by classroom windows until they get to the single point of entry.
2. As you pull into the school, there is a field to the right. I could jump that fence and have access to portables, the three-story building and the main building.
3. The three-story building is the same model as the three-story building that still sits on the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School, untouched until the end of the trial. He was able to get into that building because the three-story building was unlocked.
4. The front door of our three-story building has been unlocked all year, because our principal decided that teachers could not handle the responsibility of having keys, worrying they would lose them. And somehow, this policy, to keep doors unlocked, was, until the Texas shooting, at the principal’s discretion.
5. The backdoor of our main building was also unlocked so that teachers from the three-story building could get into the main building without a key.
6. And for some unknown reason, other than administration not feeling…