School districts are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars on tech to avoid another shooting tragedy – but is it just security theatre?
abc.net.au/news/america-school-security-ramps-up-after-uvalde/101362442Melissa Lee comforted her son and daughter after a student opened fire in their suburban Kansas City high school, wounding an administrator and a police officer.Multiple states in the US now mandate or encourage panic-alert buttons in schools to inform authorities of school shootings
Weeks later, she wept for the parents in Uvalde, Texas, who buried their children after the massacre there in May. The spending spree includes metal detectors, security cameras, vehicle barriers, alarm systems, clear backpacks, bullet-resistant glass and door-locking systems.Critics say school officials are scrambling to show action — any action — to worried parents ahead of the new school year, but in their haste may be emphasising the wrong things.
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.Robb Elementary School had an alert app, and when an attacker approached the school, a school employee sent a lockdown alert.
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