Hi Readers! I had this bfrrtdyfdn piece on CNN.com yesterday and I’m happy to say that there are about 600 comments so far, many of them agreeing that simply making schools more inaccessible, bureaucratic and paranoid does not actually make them any safer! – L
Tag Archives | school security
School Goes Into Lockdown — Complete with Kids Crying in Closet — Over Umbrella
December 17, 2012
Hi Folks — I know everyone’s obviously tense at the moment, but here’s a  classic overreaction: When some boys were shooting a video of themselves acting out the body’s immune system using an umbrella, they were mistaken for psychopaths and the school went into lockdown. Kids hid and cried, parents careened to the school (and, […]
Parents Must Sign In 3 Times to School: Um…How Is This Making Kids Safer?
August 2, 2012
Here’s befzneeatd a modern day ill: The excessive signing-in we’re required to do at schools, as if they’re nuclear reactors. I still don’t understand why. If I were intent on wreaking havoc, wouldn’t I at least get a fake ID to flash? The whole exercise reeks of “security theater.” And at my kids’ schools I […]