Can our schools be even safer?

Students walk past a second set of doors to enter Medary Elementary School in Brookings Friday morning. On the wall to their right is a buzzer, which visitors during the school day must press, then wait for a staff member to unlock the door in front of them. Brookings and Sioux Valley schools are re-examining their school security systems since an elementary school shooting in Connecticut left 20 students and six adults dead. Photo by Charis Prunty/Register

• Brookings, Sioux Valley schools considering extra security components since Connecticut shooting

BROOKINGS – Of all the changes for schools in this century, whoever thought one of them would be the need to protect students from a gunman opening fire in their classrooms?

It’s been a real possibility for several years now, and with each new tragedy school leaders learn more ways that their students and teachers could be at risk.



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