Safer Schools With Safe Door Strategy that Works on Airplanes?

Well maybe, but I do not think so.  Any perp can come prepared as they are now with firearms of choice,  but also with breaching equipment able to punch through clasroom walls.  Better trained teachers would be better and an active deterant.

what i am saying is that passive deterance is terribly limiting.  all initiative is in the hands of the perp and that is bad.

A perp needs to face thirty trained teachers who know how to use a weapon.  A shotgun is ideal inside close quarters and can get up close and personal while not necessarily killing the perp.

A school full of trained shotgun yielding teachers is also not so attractive as a target.  Trained matters to prevent collateral damage. this is totally possible and cheap as well.

 

Safer Schools With Safe Door Strategy that Works on Airplanes

September 21, 2023 by Brian Wang

There are aspects of effective airplane security strategy that can be replicated with School, public education and hospital security. Reinforced cockpit doors and secondary barriers are one of the most cost effective and effective measures for deterring and foiling hijackings. There are companies offering military grade security doors that designed to look like ordinary doors. Remo’s doors are made out of 18-gauge galvanized steel and bullet-resistant glass. The door weighs 150 pounds and offers a high level of ballistic protection. Security is offered without making the schools feel like a jail.

Some doors can take 100 rounds of an assault weapon. AR-15s fire 45-400 rounds per minute. It would be 1-3 minutes to penetrate each secure door. It would also reduce the number of rounds available to an attacker. 100 rounds of AR-15 ammo weighs about 5-10 lbs. 200 rounds would weigh 10-15 pounds. If each class room had a secure door as well, then it would increase the time and ammo needed to go from room to room. It would increase the weight of ammo needed. Shooters with handguns would be stopped at the first secure door.

The US has been having about 20-40 school security incidents each year. The active school shooter incident numbers are about 0-4 per year.

“It will stop the first few bullets from penetrating all the way through. And the lock will jam if you shoot at it to try to open it,” he said. They are also fire-resistant for up to 90 minutes, he added.

Remo Security doors cost about $2500 each for schools. R2P Innovation has a school security door that weighs 260 pounds and can absorb 100 rounds from any assault weapon and cost about $4,000 each.

There are 120,000 schools (private and public) in the USA and about 70-80 million students. This likely means about 4 million doors. High volume transition for all doors could get mass produced transition down to $2000 per door. This would be about $8 billion. Windows and wall upgrades could be performed when there is major school maintenance.

In FY 2023, the federal Department of Education (ED) had $271 Billion of budget distributed among its 10 sub-components.

California’s K-12 education budget is over $100 billion per year.

$8 billion would be less than 2% of the state and federal education budgets for one year.

$2000 for training and arming one or two staff at each school would be another $1.6 billion per year. If a principal, teacher or admin staff could be hired with some military or security background then they could be trained and certified with a program similar to the Flight Deck security program. Trained and armed staff would get an extra $5000 per year in salary. Two people per school would add $10,000 per year in salary. $12000 per year times 130,000 schools is $1.6 billion per year.

This would be combined with some additional alarm and video camera systems and having life feeds available to nearby police, national guard and automatic or rapid triggering of 911. Processes and apps could be used to improve response times.

This program would also be extended to Universities, Colleges, hospitals and various workplaces.

Airplane Security Cost Benefit and Effectiveness Analysis

By April 2003, all air carriers had to meet the requirement of cockpit doors that are resistant to guns and grenades.

There are more air marshals on every flight. Israeli commercial airlines have two security agents with Uzis on each plane.

There is a Flight deck security training program.

There was a cost benefit analysis of the airplane securit