Here are the problems with the doors at Robb Elementary

DPS says the door could only be locked from the outside.

[TonyGue]

It's actually sick to think that everything went in the shooters favor. Faulty doors, police officer drove right past him, and was able to scare off the cops to continue his massacre

[costaricanaturephotography]

So with all the drills and training cops do at the school for just such a situation and NO ONE NOTICED??? The incompetence is staggering.

[valeriec]

This happens a lot with schools in poor communities. We had a back door as well that was broken and took a while to fix. ACs that don’t work, issues with pests…meanwhile schools on the other side of town have restaurants on campus.

[garlic]

At my daughter’s school, the doors lock automatically whenever you shut them and can’t be opened without a key. Honestly, what’s wrong with the people who designed this school? The fact that some doors didn’t lock at all… the poor kids

[NoliMeTangere]

I taught for four years in a classroom which had a broken lock. I complained about it every year. Nothing was ever done. It was noted in all 16 lockdown drills I completed in that room. Parents: please speak up. Districts don't care when teachers complain.

[JJCGCAZ]

Don’t blame the doors, blame the cowards that didn’t go in and save those kids!! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤬

[VTPSTTU]

So the operations commander had the police wait for an hour for a key to a door that wouldn't have been locked? The incompetence of that guy is amazing.

[bratzatak]

So if the story is cops couldn’t get inside the room but the doors don’t lock… the math ain’t mathing. If the door was CLEARLY unlocked and opened outward how could he have locked himself inside?

[juliodavid]

I worked in a school district for 11 years and I was one of the locksmiths. Doors can not be locked manually from the inside. However all the inside doors were locked from the outside with a key. We had a magnetic strip that would keep the door from latching if the teacher wanted to do that between class changing. If there was a lockdown all the teacher had to do was remove the magnetic strip and close the door locked. Then all the students and teacher were to move to a corner of the classroom were they could not be seen or heard. All of the windows next to the doors were always covered completely. The outside doors were ALWAYS locked and they were checked by the school security regularly during the day. If any door in the district was not working properly It was always priority one to go and fix it, even if the superintendent needed something fixed. All of these safeties were implemented years ago when all of these mass shootings started happening. Safety can be accomplished if people set their minds to it, it is not that hard or impossible. No need to get rid of the back doors like some dumb senator from Texas suggested.

[IsaiahDanielJohnson]

It's hilarious how they are trying to shift responsibility onto the door

[christiantoglia]

I remember when I was in high school my teacher told us NOT to barricade the doors in the case of an active shooter (like what you’re supposed to do) because our doors opened outward into the hallway. Our doors were also made of very old wood and could easily be broken down. It’s shameful that this was normal for my school and still is in thousands of schools across the country

[CookieGlue]

Never thought about it but my old elementary school has doors that are eerily similar and huge windows you could just easily shoot out or throw something through to get entry into the school. Schools really need to do a better job before it’s too late.

[TenaciousSLG]

Sad thing is, I would bet the majority of schools in this country have just as many basic security failures as Uvalde, if not more. The government doesn't even fund our schools enough to pay teachers what they deserve or hire the additional teachers we need. They are pinching pennies as it is. If we think they're going to fork over for every school in America to have something even as basic as proper doors that lock from the inside and aren't surrounded by windows, we're dreaming. I wonder if Congress would change its tune if they had to hold their sessions in school gymnasiums around the country with no security, just like our children, teachers, and staff have to do every day.

[anthonyto]

Imagine being an architect saving money on doors, and being partly responsible for the deaths of 21 people

[rusmaster]

the other problem with the doors is that there were 400 cops behind them stopping heros from doing their

[kathyd]

Injured victims and deceased victims’ families need to sue the Texas State Government, the Uvalde School District, and all of the police departments that didn’t go in to stop the shooter; including those cops that went in and only saved their own children or their friends’/co-workers children. This whole avoidable tragedy lays at the feet of all of those incompetent and grossly negligent responders by inaction and trying to cover up the lack of professionalism and not doing their jobs. It’s sickening! Money won’t bring dead children and teachers back, but those families and those recovering will need medical and psychological care. They should be able to move away from that town and out of the state if they choose. All of the agencies involved and especially leaders and cops that are part of the coverup will only learn by having a monetary judgement holding them accountable to pay. Let’s face it, money is all they care about. It’s a sad statement, but after everything coming out on this? Those families deserve justice.

[oceanstaiga]

My school (in Germany!) has all classroom doors that lock when they are closed but can always be opened from the inside, never from the outside without a key. Simple design that should include any doors. Out schools are open campus so anybody can walk in but at least the classrooms would be secure.

[Wendy-dkwu]

Everytime I pictured this story In my head the walls were bleek and boring like my high-school. To see the colorful elementary wall just really makes me see we will never know exactly what the survivors went thru or what the experience was like. Anything we can imagine can never be as bad as the actual event

[Morkedz]

I remember the day after the event when i was in 1st period we had a door that led outside and a security guard was testing if the doors were locked. It's sad how not all buildings have doors that could be locked from the inside, its shocking how designers waved this flaw out.

[JDsVarietyChannel]

To be fair. When a lot of these schools were built (many elementary schools in the US were built in the 1960's) this was the furthest thing from people's mind.