An Exclusive Look At New Security Measures To Keep Schools Safe

With students gearing up to return to classrooms, schools are taking a closer look at ways to keep everyone safe - including investing in new technology. NBC’s senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY.

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[knjmoorhouse]

This is a good start; however, what measures are in place to take care of the root problem? Many of these school shooters are bullied students or former students. It is extremely important to make kindness and empathy an integral part of school culture. Children spend a large part of their weeks at school. Building community and fostering a loving and nurturing environment is extremely important for the youngsters' mental health and academic success.

[tyshawnwheeler]

You guys should have that at every school🙏🙏

[suncu]

I remember, 15 years ago, when I was in high school.
The news about US school shootings spread to Europe and we had to discuss what we thought about it.

The most common comment was "Even if someone wanted to do a school shooting, where would they find a gun?"

[roserainbird]

Buys fancy door handles, doesn’t ban guns, very American 🙄

[TheMentalHealthToolbox]

Thank you for touching on this all-important topic 🙏

[Republican_Banana]

With so many security measures, why would parents even send their kids to a place that isn't safe in the first place?

[tyshawnwheeler]

You guys should have that I love you school🙏

[thegreatbamboozler]

Funny how 50 years ago kids had access to Firearms young adults had access to Firearms plenty of firearms around but we didn't have situations like this. Seems to me we've had a change in people not a change in processes or firearms

[maplessence]

I feel traumatised just watching this. Who would want to be a teacher in the States now?

[cko-]

Oh weird every student needs to take compromises that the gun-users don’t have to.

[robertskolimowski]

As the guy said, teachers didn't sign up for that, no surprise there's a shortage of teachers in the country. All of those hard-to-stomach (or indeed, tragic) security measures wouldn't be even needed, kids would be spared trauma, if only the US wasn't almost completely controlled by the gun industry/lobby, very very sad😔

[codyallred]

What about the outside perimeter? If you prevent the problem from happening inside the perimeter, you solve the problem.

[victoriahammond]

My daughter actually breached 4 schools in our district after pleading for more safety precautions and is now facing 8 charges!!

[Oneofakind]

Just remove the doors. Doors are the problem…

[sparkle]

This is all good but notice that they were never scanned by metal detectors or baggage x-Ray. They just let them in.
All the schools have to do is simply copy the model of courts and airports.
Courts and airports don’t experience shootings, period.
If there is a breach, then the gunfight takes place at the entrance not the classroom.

[Music-pqcm]

Those electronic locks could be an issue during a fire. Make sure they can be overridden (locked and unlocked) from the inside.

[sus_guy]

I came to school one year they added 113 cameras😳 (counted them)

[Thatonesleepyfox]

Listen, I'm happy there putting this stuff in place but maybe you shouldn't show people all of the measures, just seems like a bad idea...

[reinettbernardo]

Should be a metal/gun detector booth before going into where you have driver's checked as gunman can shoot that security, press buttons to get access through next doors.
Thank goodness we have not really had this problem in our South African schools.

[lisaingram]

The school needs to practice these drills with the students, to prepare them to get to a safezone