School Safety: Inside One School’s Extraordinary Security Measures (teachers can carry guns also - video - skokie, ill.)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 01:24.

While schools across America reassess their security measures in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., one school outside of Chicago takes safety to a whole new level.

The security measures at Middleton Elementary School start the moment you set foot on campus, with a camera-equipped doorbell. When you ring the doorbell, school employees inside are immediately able to see you, both through a window and on a security camera.

“They can assess your demeanor,” Kate Donegan, the superintendent of Skokie School District 73 ½, said in an interview with ABC News.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/school-security-one-school...

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