A gaping hole in school security or am I being an over reactive parent?

[SNAFU]

Ever think it was as substitute teacher?
Talk to the teacher and request escorts to the head.

[Glock Shooter]

Thanks for the replies and I'd like to hear more. For clarification, the music teacher said that she did NOT recognize the stranger and actually said she felt the need to get my daughter back in the classroom.

[275RLTW]

Where was the school's SRO during this? I would bring this issue up with the school board.

[iamhunter]

Come on guys, it's a school, not a prison.

I understand worrying about the safety of your children, really, I do, but at what point does worry become paranoia?


I'm fairly young, and even in my lifetime I watched school evolve from something nominally enjoyable into a rigid, terrible system of rules and regulations.


Dogs? Guard Patrols? Buzzing people in?

Is that really the environment you want your kids growing up in?

One of control and fear?

Seriously, ok, so there was an unknown guy in the hall. There's dozens of different plausible reasons why he could've been there, and only ONE bad one.

[275RLTW]

I understand worrying about the safety of your children, really, I do, but at what point does worry become paranoia?

Hopefully before something happens to your own kids....

[Irving]

The reality is that there aren't enough staff around to baby sit every kid all day long. For how unprotected schools are (in general) I'd say it says something positive about society that hardly anything ever happens.

[BigBear]

Come on guys, it's a school, not a prison. Well, with gangs/drugs, non-parent involvement, lack of respect of authority/elders, state/government mandates, certain laws, etc... it get's turned into a prison pretty quick.


Dogs? Guard Patrols? Buzzing people in? In my defense, I was over-seas in a military school during a tricky time in American-European diplomacy. But talk about "feeling safe", I sure did.

[BigBear]

The reality is that there aren't enough staff around to baby sit every kid all day long.

That's the sad part, IMO. Teachers have to babysit/raise the kids instead of having the time to teach them...

[ChunkyMonkey]

... and the worst part of this is we still have to pay k12 tax even if our kids were in more secure private school.

[coop68]

I'm surprised on this being in boulder i live 5 min from there! sounds like the principle was trying to cover his or her own a#& not calling the cops cause of somthing they didn't do! just sounds very shady i am glad your daughter is ok! heck if niwot high can get on the news for having asbestos problems and getting school canceled i am kind of shocked 9 news or or channel 7 isn't at your door step asking for your comments and or calling you!

if you can give the name of the school this happend at would be nice to know, but i understand that is private information maybe more suited in Pm's.