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
His Grandma ( the one he shot before he went to the school) works at the school as a Teacher's Aide. He would have access to the security and design of the school simply by visiting her there.
@@saxonsoldier67 oh wow. That’s the first I’ve heard the grandmother worked there. That’s how it worked in his favor. Also the shooter had a cousin in one of the classes that he shot and killed.
@@lili8686z To be fair I have not been to a school that the classroom doors weren't only lockable from the outside. After the school shootings in Florida they started making teachers lock their doors all day and the teachers had to go outside and outside and lock the door
@@miurtouissi1093 Well from what I saw broadcast on the national news there were muliple failures and the door lock issue was just one of many Clearly you just saw that one. lol
@@timmartin7664 I saw this channel try to diminish cops incompetence from the beginning and other channels blame them from the beginning. They all have their biais I'm just aware of it. I hope you are too
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
I think doors that go outwards are sometimes installed incase of a fire. There's incidents where ppl were trapped because they ended up blocking the door from opening by having a bunch of ppl pushing against a door that goes inward. One case is the NYC triangle shirtwaist fire
Does Uvalde have a fire marshal if so fire them as well. They are the ones requiring doors remain unlock when the building is occupied. This device on the door is so you can get out but you can’t get in. The Fire Marshal apparently was not checking the doors at the school. Every burger shop has a similar device & sign stating this door must remain unlock when the building is occupied. Fire Marshal-Fire Marshal and Fire Marshal. Uvalde municipal is the epitome of SLEEPY little town.
My high school got rebuilt like 4 years ago, and they made every classroom have huge windows to the hallways. The windows arent reinforced or anything, and they’re like 4 feet wide by 10 feet tall. There’s two windows per classroom. The worse place to be in case of a shooting would be the second floor since there’s no way of exiting the building unless you go out onto the hallway, run down the stairs and outside. You could also stay inside the classroom and wait till the windows get shot out and oh well rip. I find it so idiotic how a modern school was built so poorly in case of a shooting. Not only that but the school got a 1mil grant for building a statue and a community park, yet they don’t use that money for a little more security.
I wondered that same thing--how this could not have come up as an issue if law enforcement had actually done real trainings and drills in that school? It's disgraceful and enraging.
@@TenaciousSLG it because the school did training with swatt team which never showed up the local police wasn't trained and should've just in case no matter what.
Unfortunately many drills and training exercises are carried out and treated like team-off-work days. Show up, go through 1-2 scenarios on projector, tea break, a few theories, lunch one practical scenario sign attendance go home. Too much time and emphasis is put on following written policy and procedures to the letter, nothing/ not much on personal initiative and responsibility.
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.
It’s not poor it’s just negligence and people don’t want to deal with all the legwork it takes. Sometimes things like that can take months to get resolved.
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
my high school had magnetic locks that each student/faculty had to have an ID card to unlock it, if you weren't attending school (like its summer or you've graduated) the cards aren't activated
I bet they get their mandatory pronoun, trans, and other touchy-feely training. Get rid of the Teachers Union and allow teachers to practice thinking for themselves. Surely a good citizen in Uvalde would have made necessary repairs to the doors. The bureaucracy of work orders and restrictions on who can do the work assures nothing gets done. Give Principals the freedom to run their schools and not remote bureaucrats.
@@Joseph-rx9tp It is not the 50’s. Your home and business are required to be brought up to code. Bring schools up or shut them down. They were shut down for Covid.
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.
Here we go what kind of person complains for four years about a broken lock without doing a darn thing? Do you think this community did not have a locksmith? Take action people and stop whining which is not a good example for the students.
@@loublev5098 We aren't allowed to. The average teacher invests almost $2k per year into their classroom, we have absolutely no problem paying for things. 1) No locksmith will work on someone else's property without signed consent. 2) We aren't permitted to make any changes to the building unless we go through Admin, as I attempted for years. The kids aren't the only people who die, teachers do too. We are very aware of the risk we take by simply attempting to educate the next generation.
@KMusic Teachers should not use their own money. A man once said I know how to make the rabbit hop. Perhaps a random uninvited visit by the fire marshal. Schools should get parents more involved with their needs instead of treating them like the enemy. Might upset the teachers union - so what.
@@loublev5098 1) I don't teach in a unionized state. Many teachers work in states with little or no union representation. 2) Fire Marshall's see absolutely no problem with doors that don't lock. They don't consider shooting situations. A Fire Marshall is more likely to get after me for having window coverings. Typically school doors lock from the outside, so that a child cannot lock themselves in without a teacher. Doors are then kept locked at all times, with a magnet hold the door slightly adjacent. That is standard practice. Fire Marshalls like open doors. Many think that locked doors on exteriors are enough. 3) We've lost a lot of parent involvement since the pandemic. Many just got used to not coming in. I personally welcome parent involvement. Most of the CRT indoctrination and gender indoctrination lies might vanish, if parents could come in and see for themselves that we aren't teaching anything like that. Parents are welcome in my classroom at any time. I haven't had a parent take me up on that since 2019.
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.
They said a few days ago the door wasn't locked and that police never tried to get in door but it was unlocked they could have been in if they wanted to this whole story is deeply disturbing to me it's so horrific
The part that amazes me is youtube commenters who weren't there! Seem to be the ones who are the most angry about the way Uvalde police officers "failed to respond" you do understand on the day of the incident you weren't there. So how would you kno
@@caroldunkin2371 McCraw said that but he is biased about all of this considering he had more DPS cops there than any other agency and they also did nothing. BTW, McCraw also said surveillance video didn't show which classoom door the shooter went in but then said surveillance video did show that no cops checked the classroom door. Something seems wrong with that statement.
@@rogersmith7808 something terribly wrong with this whole situation so much of it doesn't add up one thing i do know that when it comes to defenseless innocent children most of us would do anything to try and save them regardless of the circumstances to us
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?
That's the point, he wasn't locked inside at all. According to video footage, the cops never even attempted to open the classroom doors by even turning the handle, they assumed they were locked. All that time wasted waiting for a master key for doors that can't even be locked from the inside to begin with. Smh 🙄
According to the way the locks worked shooter as well as children might of been prevented from "leaving" the 2 classrooms but nothing was stopping people from "entering" the classrooms. Seems the locks made the doors become 1 way entry points when locked but on the wrong side.
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.
@@cgmason7568 The school district I worked in had 11 schools plus the admin building. You do not have go out of the room to remove the strip. You open the door slightly and remove it and the door locks. It takes a few seconds to do this. This way the teacher does not have to go looking for a key and then go outside the door to lock it. The locks on all the doors were always locked, the magnet just prevents the latch to go into the latch hole. Not sure what you mean by auto locking doors, but if it is an electronic system that has to be installed it sounds costly. There are a lot of poor districts in the US and that might not be affordable. The magnetic strip is pretty cheap and fast.
@@everythingpony I believe that is for "dogging" the door latch. It does not unlock or lock the lock. What it does is hold the latch in so that it does not go into the latch hole. But what is the point you are trying to make?
What the fck? The only one responsible is the shooter. And beyond that, the US government for still having such lax gun laws. No one fucking needs a gun. The rest of the developed world does brilliantly without them. Thanks and goodnight.
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.
I think the schools in my town are like that too I'm going to drive around sometime and look cuz I haven't been to the school in years but from what I remember they look like this.. I hope that the other schools around are paying attention to this, and make changes so many people like to believe it's never going to happen in their hometown and they just don't know that it can happen anywhere at any school doesn't matter where you live..
My elementary school didn't have doors, just large openings in the wall. Some teachers would cover it with cabinets to try and make the entrances smaller. Some of the rooms also didn't have walls dividing them. The school was built before regulations on the student to teacher ratio were put in. I really hope that the classrooms have added doors and walls now. Unfortunately the school sits in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city so I don't imagine it will happen.
my elementary school has windows at the top of the walls of concrete and these windows are a bit slim but these windows go across one wall but all teachers are provided with curtains or shutters
@@karicrosman792 you do realize some crazy person can just walk in with a knife and start stabbing you and the students right? What is so hard about doors that are secure and lock properly?
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
It's absolutely ASTONISHING the hoops these people are willing to jump through when the obvious solution is to put trained armed guards in schools. My flipping local FRED MEYERS has an armed security guard at each entrance. Pistol, vest, cuffs, the whole nine yards. There is NO excuse. They WANT this to continue happening.
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.
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.
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.
Those locks were designed to keep kids from locking teachers out of the classroom, and easily escape a fire. Which had been a perfectly fine expectation of a lock until about 2010.
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.
Yea, let's all sue for shit that can't be changed after the fact cause we all know suing and getting a big pay off fixes everything. NOT! Sue the teacher that assumed and her family. Yea, go for it.
@@jbfane where did they say sue the teacher? They said the incompetent PD and the Texas government who’s doing absolutely nothing to rectify the issue.
How about gun control? There was one mass shooting in the 80’s or 90’s here in Australia and now we have strict gun control and no school or mass shootings.
@@pooodonklooopdoop5672 I would agree with you if the 2nd amendment wasn’t so ingrained in American culture. Other countries that successfully implemented gun control didn’t have to deal with that.
@@cloud8315 No problem, the orders from the chief of police were to stand down!! That means he takes full responsibility. I can understand it may be difficult for you to understand from your cellphone tik tok videos, but McDonald's is not the only place that takes orders. I hope I have educated you sir have a blessed day! And remember.... we can never forgot the children, but we must never forget the killer.
@@gordsruby5963 ma'am I'm not a sir🤦🏽♀️ I agree we must not forget the children, the killer AND those others who held guns with the ability to stop some of those killings. Oh yeah let's also not forget the mother who defied those "cops" climbed a fence and saved her two children👍🏻
@@cloud8315 Some....of those killings? You're not even in the vicinity lady!! Use your common sense!!! A gunman barricaded in a classroom with children is NOT the idea of a regular day at the park. Officer's entering, rushing, storming, busting in a classroom dumping thousands of rounds into one person is absolutely retarded. I don't care what idiot country you come from, it's not an easy task. You know the facts, you know the gunman killed the children, because it's all over!!!! But you were on tik tok Watching videos, eating Popeye's chicken while children were being slaughtered like pigs. Yet where were you? Why do you know so much now then the cops knew then? It's simple you were on your phone and you're out here like everyone else blaming everything that ain't nailed to the ground. You need to look closer at the man who shot a child so badly he was decapitated from his gunshot wounds. You need to blame him.
No child has ever been killed in a school shooting that was able to get behind a locked door, look it yo. Yes the police were cowards, but if both of those doors were locked, we would have a very different story.
Remember, the door should function perfectly but doesn't because I'm assuming lack of funding which Republicans are in favor of removing public funding from public schools. The door is just part of a myriad of problems that stem from bigger issues.
Well said. This feels like a deliberate distraction. They let those kids die, and now they're grabbing at straws to explain it all away. It's sickening.
This makes me thankful for my school’s extra security measures. I’m in a region where there isn’t many shootings but it’s still very important to invest in extra safety, especially at a time like this.
As a teacher in Texas who has worked in lower income schools- those types of doors that only lock on the outside and do not have an ID badge scanner to get in are very common. We also had many classroom doors that would not lock so we had to learn how to place a student chair a certain way on the door handle for lockdown drills. Teachers tried to address it every year but it always led back to "we don't have the funds." Now, I work in a district that has more funding however, I have never seen a classroom door that is able to lock from the inside.
@@marshymellowyellow8104 False. The windows could have been shattered as they where just plate. The root issue is the gun. Why do Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy. All have equal infrastructure and mental health issues. But no where near as many shooting or murders. The US has 5x more murder not shootings and about 30x more shootings. Stop killing americans because your mricropenis and failed knowledge of statistics.
What does this have to with a sports facility? The people that work at the sport facility fix their doors. What does this got to do with the people that work at Robb elementary?
@@realnamehidden1314 I will try to go in order . Use numbers for clarity. 1) Harvard Injury Control Research has a study that directly link the number of guns into a country to gun deaths. The rate increases with the number of guns, Harvard did a brilliant job listing multiple sources, studies and data easily available in links on that page. You can also match up more data links on Worldpopulation review. Yes those two meta analysis point and link to several studies with corresponding data. Yes we know you gun nuts literally avoid the fact we have mountains of data on this because yes facts hurt your feelings. 2) Yes equal infrastructure is important because with out the enforcement mechanism like Police, Justice System, set up to tracking Serial Numbers, the bureaucracy ( oh it sucks but is necessary)aka infrastructure. UK or Japan have the systems in place. Somalia or Bangladesh not so much. You match people in your weight class so to speak. 3) Yes Mental Health per capita. Is on par in every country. WorldpopulationReview again. There is no more mental issues in the US than other countries. Simple search of "Rate of mental health issue per capita by country" The fact you never look this up is prove you avoid facts that are inconvenient for you. I provide citations above and before. You are require to search with the prompts I gave as YT anti-spam feature blocks links. 4) Again World Population review list that data. It is a great metadata source (that means cross checking multiple data points and studies). Also why did I point out murders versus mass shooting. Because gun nuts are train to say 1 of 2 responses (Bad people will just find a another way or What about stabbing and people killed by knifes!?) Which is exactly you need to point out if bad people will "just find another way" That would mean all murder rates would be equal. And turns out they aren't meaning reduction of guns via gun control laws. Is effective at not only reduce mass shootings but effective on reducing over all murders as well. 5)"Why do anti-gun people always think about other men’s cocks when talking about guns?" Yes why? Because gun nuts constant believe they need a gun to "be a man to protect their family" The very fact they use to validate their "manhood' is why we see your fragile egos. Now comes you tepid deflections of never going to read the sources and Citations I gave but looking for excuses of why you don't like them.
No one mentions that the peep window in the door also makes it where the shooter can see which rooms have survivors hiding in it and which ones don't. If they didn't have hallway facing windows, they can just shelter in place and lock the door [well about that]. They won't know which rooms are occupied or vacant and will be wasting time trying to bust into vacant rooms giving the police more time to ste in before there are mass casualties. Especially if they had literally all doors locked and made it where without a room number list, you can't tell what is a class room, caffeteria, janitors closet, restroom, etc. Every door looks identical, has no hall facing windows, and is labeled only with a sequential room #... the creep would be spending most of his time trying to bust down doors to janitors closets, restrooms, etc.
Every one forgets that the shooter went to this school as a child so he knew where everything was. I would be billing to bet that he went straight to the classroom he went to as a child or to the class of a teacher he didn't like.
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.
My school and classroom had these same doors with locks on the outside. It's a fire code issue. Students need to be able to exit from inside quickly. Also, you don't want children to be able to lock a teacher/adult out of the classroom. That's a safety issue. We teachers were trained and drilled to keep doors locked at all times. My guess is that it was the last week of school, parents coming and going for awards ceremonies, class party supplies being brought in, so the door was unlocked for convenience by someone. So tragic and that person will never forgive themselves.
?? How can you keep the doors in the classrooms locked at all times if they lock from the outside? How would you get out of the classroom after every class then? It’s not the teachers fault for going outside for a moment. Many people go out to their cars for a moment throughout the day, at school, work, or wherever. I can’t believe how many people point the finger at a single person without sufficient knowledge and witness of what happened at that moment. The door didn’t work properly when she came back in! You can’t blame this whole tragedy on someone you don’t know or didn’t witness the situation! I feel badly for her, for she’s been sentenced as guilty for this whole disaster. The shooter shot through windows too, so I guess the schools at fault for not having bullet-proof windows. How about blaming the teachers for not having guns themselves to protect themselves and the kids? There were other kids out at recess that he could’ve targeted, instead of the kids inside. I guess you’d blame the school for allowing recesses to be held. I blame the sale of the guns and ammo to an 18 year old!!
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u do you also blame Ford or GM for car accidents? Do you blame Pepsi when you pee your pants? I could have fun with your looney leftist ideas that you had to find someone else with 2 brain cells... And you're still wrong.
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u leave it up to a liberal to vilify the innocent, and praise the guilty... Not surprising. Much of the country extends sympathies to the dead...you?? You praise the teacher as you feel sorry for her. Facts don't care about your feelings!
Yes, you are entirely correct... It IS a fire code issue. The facts are contained in NFPA 101, and more specifically, in NFPA 80. Those codes have used science, fact, history, statistics and input from many areas of expertise to create them to keep people safe. With over more than 3000 school fires in a year here in the US you then tell me which is the greater danger to loss of life. Most people with intelligence will answer that fire 🔥🚒 is the greater danger due to greater occurrences.
It can be locked, 0:49 look to the right of the push bar, see that black hole? You stick a L shaped wrench or a pen/pensial and it locks from the inside
Doors at a business I worked at were exactly like this. When I asked why, I was told it was to locked up the place when leaving so that no one would come in after everyone left and steal. I would imagine this type of door is very common is areas that are suppose to be closed off to the public after business hours conclude.
Majority of the older buildings have classroom doors that can only be locked by physically inserting a key and locking it from the outside. By then it’s too late in a situation as this. Although, we are trained that our doors are to remain locked and closed at all times. With Covid and issues with ventilation it is just a loose, loose situation 😢. This was just pure wickedness and evil. May their souls Rest In Peace.
This is pretty common, the lock function is literally called “classroom function”. This means the door can be locked or unlocked from the outside only with a key, and cannot be locked from the inside.
It can be lock from the inside, there is a little black hole by the pushbar at 0:49 that is a inside lock, you stick a alen L wrench, usally a janitor has it, to lock it
@@everythingpony that’s not to lock it. That’s only to dog a door equipped with panic bars, or keep the door unlocked. Fire rated doors don’t allow that function though.
What’s crazy is that I remember the locks being on the inside of every school I went to: private school, middle school, high school, and even in college. The locks were ALWAYS on the inside. The Uvalde incident is probably the only time I’ve ever seen locks on the exterior side.
The elementary school by my house where I attended as a child is also very very easy to get in, doors never locked from the outside and the security guard desk is facing away from the door 🤦♂️ . It blows my mind how these schools haven’t learned from past incidents
Yeah the doors in my district lock the same way. I never even thought about how much of a design flaw that is. I always just assumed the door should and would always be locked.
It’s not a design flaw, the Von Duprin 99 panic device shown here, a proven and reliable design from the 1970’s (still made brand new, today) was designed for fire escape, not Wild West insane land. Furthermore they can be set up to an undefeatable auto lock if speced appropriately ( fire rated 99, store room trim). They are more commonly sold with dogging mechanism and classroom trim however, as it’s far more flexible but less resistant to idiots leaving shit unlocked.
@@mikeweatherford5312 someone with your knowledge should be present in that courtroom. A bunch of questions with no answers because they didn't think to bring in an expert. Yet another screw up or minimally a delay in this process. In any case case, thanks for the info.
@@mikeweatherford5312 But it is still a flaw because of the fact that there are doors that lock from the inside with a turn lock that does not require a key. it takes one extra second to turn the lock before opening the door. my schools had such doors that were also fire-resistant. NO door should EVER lock from the outside other than prison cell doors. Think about the door to your house. where does it lock from? inside. your bedroom & bathroom doors? inside. there is a reason for that. when they lock from the inside, you both have a layer of threat protection & the ability to easily unlock the door (from the inside) in the event of a fire.
@@kalyn3483 You could put a thumb-turn cylinder in a key dog panic device, but then kids can just walk up and tamper with it. Panic hardware is not really designed to stop an attack in the way you describe. It's meant to secure a building when the business is closed, and it's meant to ensure escape during a fire. Locking from the inside is not a requirement for either one of these goals. This is the way panic hardware has been made for 60 years. Free, one motion egress (escape) is required at all times, you cannot be required to disengage any kind of thumb turn or latch from the inside, in the event of a burning building, full of smoke, people panic and rush for the doors, even the simplest obstacle to escape can, and has lead to mass death. There are many laymen making comments about things they don't understand. Door hardware is far more complex then you realize. Also, I think you are confused by the term "Lock from the outside" these doors are always free egress, you can always escape, lock from the outside means you can't freely enter. Your comparisons to residential hardware are completely irrelevant, commercial is a totally different application, with a different set of requirements, homes do not have to meet fire code, homes do not have 100+ people in them.
the doors at the school i used to go to we’re only able to be locked from the outside. meaning you physically had to leave the room to lock the door. my teachers all kept their doors closed and locked no matter what so i was always safe but it’s still a terrible design.
Our doors back in hs worked the same way. What we did to be safe was keep the door handles locked at all times from the outside and had a magnet over the door frame so the door could be pulled open from the outside during normal times of the day. To lock the doors, all one needed to do was move the magnet and let the door close
I have worked at 2 different school in diff states and when this happened I said the same! We have to lock doors from outside then get back in class and hide! I always thought this was dumb and the door knob was complicated. You have to turn its a certain way for it to lock, I made sure I practiced a few times. But under duress anyone could mess up!
@@las2725 yes FIRE CODE but its still dumb! In this day and age, we should have a better lock system for our doors in schools that accomodates all regulations that will keep teachers and students safe.
Lack of police response killed the children. It had nothing to do with doors. The doors were unlocked. There is nothing wrong with the doors or the design of the doors. This is a police smoke screen cover-up.
There is most definitely an issue when teachers think they’re exterior doors lock (after seeing a gun man) but they don’t lock. That is complete b.s. Do you know how many doors regularly lock behind you automatically in public? The exterior door should have locked!! It IS part of the issue in addition to lack of police response, AR-15 gun laws, growing mental health issues and lack of police transparency!! The ignorant door design is outrageous! What is a lock down without freaking locked doors?!?!
@@brandyparker8961 no duumbass. Even if the door is lock. The guy have a fawking ar15. You do know 5.56 blow that lock off the door right? Also most school door have a small window. He could of broken the window and just reach in and press on the bar to open the door. So duumb fk, what about the door were you talking about again? Lmao
@@godsmission5845 Interesting. Inroder to properly regulate these weapons and prevent "high powered assault weapons" from getting in the wrong hand we must first identify what a "high powered assault weapon" is. At what point does an assault weapon become high powered? Is there such thing as a low powered assault weapon? And what even is an assault weapon?
I work for a middle school, we have a door in the back of our library that anyone can leave unlocked like a deadbolt. Students are too lazy to go through the main entrance and leave the door unlocked for each other when leaving for class. They will even unlock it when they leave class for the bathroom. We can't see that door from the library desk, we don't know when people go in and out of that door let alone who. I have busted multiple kids who have snuck in through that door to ditch class. I've even caught students making out. There is only 1 security camera in the entire library and it can not see that door. I was at another school in another district for a job interview and I noticed that their library doors were the same as ours but their doors required a key to leave unlocked. I brought the idea and my safety concerns up to admin, they ignored me. I brought up the concerns to security and they told me that I should just talk to our school maintenance guy. He agreed with me 100% that it needed to happen but the district locksmiths said my suggestion was "unsafe" and "against fire code." Our school has a serious issue with short staff due to "budget cuts," kids not giving a sh*t, and parents actually telling kids we have no authority over them, that I am waiting for the day that door is used by a mass shooter.
These are just classroom function locks and that's how they always have been, from back in the day before shooters were a thing. Modern classroom intruder function provides interior control of the locked or unlocked outside trim state. Storeroom function would also work but never allow an unlocked exterior. The exterior panic door in question just needs a nightlatch/storeroom function trim that remains locked after key entry and the door can only be held open by "dogging down" the pushbar from inside using a hex/Allen key. The glass is required by law to be a safety type, tempered or laminated with laminated being the better choice as tempered will blow up an go into a tiny pieces, but tempered is cheaper so that's likely what you get. Laminated will stay in place with much additional hacking required to clear the opening. I guarantee when new door hardware is approved the board will likely give the work to some outside vendor and beat the local locksmith who has probably been advocating for improvement all along out of the work. To my knowledge the government has never issued an SIC code for locksmiths to compete on these bids. Door hardware being considered "carpenter work", despite locksmithing being an ancient trade of more knowledgeable individuals. So when the carpenter's are done the story will now be that doors can just be credit carded open or levers tear off from them omitting the throughbolts intended to fasten them on well. Locksmiths are slighted by union and lobby interests and lack the backing to raise the capitol to be legitimately included in the build and renovations process. Locks seem to be carpenter work until the work gets tricky, such as full mortise installations and then the carpenter's come calling to sub us out for a door or two. That's just the American way, like it or not we are in a bad position to help schools out despite being the better choice.
0:49 they lock from the inside, look to the roght of the pushbar, see that black hole? You stick a L shaped wrench in there and it locks it from the inside
It is a building code requirement that exit doors have panic hardware. Not sure about the vision pane and side lights, but they also seem to be quite common in schools also. The exit door was either never locked in the first place (which is possible to do depending on how the key is turned), or the latch failed to engage when the teacher removed the prop earlier.
i’m so lucky to have a new school with double doors(all working as they should), classroom doors that lock from both sides, and a deputy that is assigned to come to the school every day.
That is absolutely insane. Glad to live in a place where our schools have the funding to not only have the best of the best in terms of security, but also the budget to fix if any of those are broken, at any time
Consider the fact that he could’ve easily attacked people at random once school was out.I’m talking about children,parents,relatives of the kids,siblings and any arriving police.Things just happen to “go down” the way they did
Imagine that if it hadn't of been the day of the end-of-year awards assembly, there probably would've been twice as many kids in those two classrooms. Over half of the kids went home with their parents when the awards assembly was over.
The school district and local police should have hardened the glass with security film (think of it as thick clear window tint). It can be added after initial construction. The door issues should have been addressed as well during training for a school shooter incident which allegedly happened about 9 weeks before this disaster. For a few thousand dollars, a school can be secured for a short period until courageous police arrive.
@@saxonsoldier67 all schools districts should replace all doors and windows with bullet proof ones. Then they should remodel the ceilings of each classroom as an attic to hide in. That alone would probably save lives if the districts didn't have enough funds to install bullet proof doors and windows.
@@Wondorawoman Not practical to have bullet proof ones everywhere. Security film can delay intruders. Hiding in attics ? Would have made no difference in this case as the police would have still waited outside for far too long. The shooter's Grandma worked at this school. He had access to its security and design. Even bullet proof doors and windows have limits. All they can do is delay a determined intruder. Courageous police were needed.
in most offices i've worked in, our doors were like this. you had to be able to escape during a fire by pressing the bar. you could lock it from the inside, but with a little pin type thing and they were very prone to breaking. so then you could only lock it from the outside with a key.
That door can be locked from the inside. The exit door with the press-bar to exit is the exact same as those used in my school district, and in order to lock them you place an allen key into the hole on the right of the bar and twist it. All of the administrators in my district have allen keys on their keychains for this purpose.
I am a teacher !!!!! And in all the schools that I have worked the doors are the same !!! You can only locked them from the out side !!!!! I never understand why!!
It’s not a fire hazard,( the door still opens freely, from the inside, even if locked from the inside, you can always escape, you only control exterior locking) it’s more a practical issue. It’s kind of a big ask to expect a manufactor like allegion, Jackson, assy abbloy or Sargent to design and sell a unicorn bespoke lock just for schools, made in small batches, when the tried and true standard panic device is good for all other commercial applications. As tall an order as it is though, they are working on it. We’ve never “needed” it before. Times are a changing. You’d need to put keyed locks on both sides of the door, only controlling the exterior handle, always allowing free egress via the push bar, it can be done, but it’s a big ask. Fire code won’t permit supplemental locks, you can only have one lock, and it must open with a single motion with no special skills or knowledge. There’s good cause for this, as in the previous 100 years or so you were far more likely to die in a fire then a school shooting.
I lost it after he said “over 340,000 doors across Texas” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 y’all really talking about doors and door design when that’s not the solution to mass shootings.
@Austin Weathers You aren’t getting my point and you’re still talking about something that has nothing to do with stopping that shooting. We’re the only developed nation in this world that lets everyone just run free when it comes to getting a gun. Something that can easily kill someone, that that’s the reason why he killed those kids not because of a stupid door or door design.
I’m glad that at my school u have to use keycards to get into the door and the only way students get into the school is if the people at the front desk press a button for the front doors to unlock and also u can lock the doors from the inside and the outside
That’s what I was thinking. At no time during the entire hour and 14 minute video of the police and other agents scurrying about in the hallway did ANYONE try to check to see if the door was even open. A flat out lie by the Chief. Reprehensible!
You can have doors that easy to open in an emergency like a fire (and these are required by code) or you can have doors that are very resistant to intrusion. But it is much more difficult to have both. In this case, at a minimum, you would need to either get rid of the side lights or use reinforced glass. Of course, both of those options would dramatically slow firefighters in the event of a fire, which is statistically, a much greater threat. But if the school can't even bother to lock the doors, it doesn't really matter.
Oh… I see, so it’s completely normal and acceptable for a teenager to have an AR15, drive like crazy, and crash his car, but man, whoever installed those doors is a monster.
Unfortunately when the schools don’t get enough funds things like maintenance and such get set aside or overlooked. Especially in small towns or more poverty stricken areas.
top cop of any school should have been all over this, but i guess that would have required someone doing their job all across texas and who knows where else.
We have same doors at our schools in CA. You have to use a little pin and put in the little hole while pushing in that long metal bar on door in order to lock it. As long as that bar is pushed in it is locked from the outside. You can unlock from outside with a key while people indoors can open freely. We are required to leave it like like this at all times. Or you can permanently unlock with the pin in the hole. You know it is unlocked when that metal bar is not pushed in. The pin is usually hung nearby on wall. Sad fact it takes a while to lock door and shooter probably would have made it in before she locked it.
It's so sad to think that those are the kinds of thing schools in the US need to worry about. None of the classrooms in my schools growing up had any locks so that's something i'd never worry about when building a school. I hope things get better and this doesn't have to be a concern in the future
It's not just for shooters. You realize how easy it would be for a predator to walk through a backdoor, pretend he's staff, and kidnap a child??? The severity of the door issue can't be understated. Shootings aside, they endangered the kids from all sorts of threats.
It's sickining, I'm from the UK and all my school doors run on key cards (I know this is very common in a lot of UK schools) I do not go to a private school, and go to a large state school in quite a rough area. The doors lock themselves and only teachers have access to the doors they need to open. For example, an English teacher has a key card that can only open doors in the English block. Why isn't this something that is introduced into the USA, it's not something that requires whole new doors. But instead something as simple as replacing the lock. I am obviously not blaming this shooting the fact that the doors have the wrong locks. As I think it's clear what the issue is and why so many shootings happen all across America and my heart goes out to all those families and everyone in America who are stuck in a nation that will not fix the gun law issues.
We had something like that at my middle school except that we used physical keys instead; the doors always locked themselves. American schools are often terribly underfunded (like other aspects of American society such as healthcare), especially in red states.
@@dr.noname1234 It's worth listening to what they have to say, considering they do not have even a small fraction of the school shootings that occur in the United States so frequently. It's time to get off your high horse, grandpa.
My elementary school didn't have any enclosed rooms and we could only huddle behind our bookshelves like they're not going to have free range to go in and look. Our next option was to hide in our cubbies that could easily be opened from the outside. They only renovated and made enclosed rooms after I graduated to 6th grade. I'm glad we didn't have much of the school shootings back then because my whole school was a liability. As a new parent, I will never let my child attend a school with open rooms.
My first high school had doors like this but the second high school I think they could lock on both the inside and outside. Our doors automatically locked on the exterior of the school when we shut them (after passing period) but students opened the doors for people who knocked on the doors. And during passing period anyone can enter the school if they pretend they’re a student. The principal and teachers tried to drill in our heads to never open the door for anyone, but the students still did.
Our school classroom doors(it's a highschool In uk) can be locked once there shut. They open from the inside and lock from the inside but once u step outside and it shuts, u have to knock on to be let back in coz u can't open them from the outside unless ur a teacher with a pass, and students are not aloud to open the doors from the inside unless they get the permission from a teacher or a teacher asks them too.(idk if I have just said the same thing but worded it differently) also all windows that are able to be seen thru from like the school corridors also have them half way tinted. So, when ur sat at ur table with whoever u sit next to, u cannot see iut the window unless u stand up since the bottom half of the window is like tinted and they also have blinds on them too. We do have a very secure school-
I’ve been a teacher for many years, I’ve never encountered a door I could close from the inside, beside the faculty restroom. Windows in doors are also common place, but important to see who you’re letting in. Doors that can be locked from the inside and windows further away from the handle could be a start. Then there’s funding…
There are two ways to lock and unlock a panic device, they actually work independently and will override each other. Dogging mechanism (aka the hole in the bar from inside) holds the bar down and leave door unlocked, outside trim (aka outside handle, grip, keyhole) will also unlock the door at any time, and depending what type of trim (store room or classroom) can leave the door unlocked all the time.
That is not the door he was seen coming in on on surveillance video. The door he came in had a big glass panel on the side and it was a different hallway too.
The schools I went to in New York City the doors would slam lock. There's a way of keeping those doors open but you have to push that big metal part in and use like an allen key to keep it open. I do remember some classroom doors with two-way key lock and also some classroom doors with deadbolts. These are from the schools I went to as a kid from New York City. Do you have to change all school door locks and make that little glass bulletproof.
@@stewblare2190 maybe… if you happen to carry the right sized Allen wrench with you, perhaps you could lock it from the inside. It takes a few moments, though.
An 18- year-old legally purchased AKs and was deranged enough to walk into an elementary school and begin shooting small children, in front of their classmates. The police did very little to save them. Yeah, THE PROBLEM IN OUR SOCIETY IS DOORS. THIS IS DISGUSTING. We should be ashamed.
The only reason he was able to purchase weapons is because a court neglected to update his status in federal registry after a conviction of violent crime. The problem is that our law enforcement is under qualified, corrupt, inept, and cowardly.
@@xeonespydonum4995 We have a variety of problems that I am not self-righteous enough to pretend I can list (though I have no doubt that the problems you propose are on that list), but I know that list doesn't include elementary school doors.
i don't disagree. but the doors are part of the problem, because if they locked this might not have happened to such a large degree. although i do agree that assault weapons shouldn't be sold to civilians
I recall my school doors being the opposite. Someone inside always having to let you in bc they just auto lock on close. Remember having to hold the door always. Where do you ever find doors that only lock from the outside?
Industry standard Von Duprin 99 panic device, designed in the 70’s with a stellar track record, great piece of kit. Doors are a smoke screen for the real problem
This is what you get when you get committees, politicians and boards to design systems. Looking at the images being shown, all the doors would have failed their first safety test. Exterior push bar door locks are supposed to automatically lock when doors are sprung shut. Interior/ classroom doors could have borrowed from the humble toilet door lock- They lock from the inside. If and when glass/ viewing portals are fitted to doors they should not compromise the lock/ function of the door. That said, it shouldn’t draw attention away from the incompetence and very serious failures of the school safety officer(s) and law enforcement response. It is their failings and inactions on the scene that led to the high casualty numbers in the school. The buck stops with them. Looking at the investigation hearings, it is apparent the department of safety is mixing up the issues, non issues and potential issues into one pot. The investigation should into the school shooting should start from the moment the first shots we’re fired into the school- What happened? Issues about playing video games, dead cats in a bag, gun trigger adapter, high capacity magazines gun laws etc are only clouding the investigation.
The police department should understand the schools in there area even maps and become fimilar with schools in Utah police department were training at local high school but sometimes when shooter shoots through door it can be unsafe to maybe touching the door would be hard to do if he's shooting through the door just a thought but did this class room have windows if so why didn't they shoot him down that way like a sniper. Training is very important.
@@juliaweber212 Yes training is very important but it is completely useless if lessons and employable skills and knowledge are not learned. Training is being used in many cases as tickbox exercises to beef up employee records and for insurance purposes.
It’s not that simple. Put a barricade latch on an interior classroom? What happened when a student locks the teacher out and beats a kid to death while everyone watches though the window? There is a reason things are as they are. Panic devices are designed for fire escape, they can be set up to an auto lock, known as “store room function trim” but most opt to have the ability to unlock the door, this leaves staff responsible, not door hardware. I do agree with almost everything you said though, particularly with the smoke screen those responsible are throwing up, this door non-issue is just another one
@@mikeweatherford5312 It’s not that simple true, but when the simple is overlooked for the complicated then problems arise inevitably. A door or lock that cannot be opened or locked clearly doesn’t fulfil it’s basic function. I give the example of the toilet door lock for its simplicity yet high effectiveness. As for a kid locking a teacher out of a classroom to beat another kid to death, I don’t know how many such incidents are on record but surely that kind of kid would have no problem beating another child to death in an unlocked classroom, a bathroom or the playground and shouldn’t be in that kind of environment in the first place. I fully agree with you that the door hardware cannot be seen to be responsible for the victims but rather the people involved. The issue is or should be the determined active shooter on the school premises and what was not done/ could have been done to minimise casualties.
At my school some of the classrooms did have exit doors, but some did not. I agree with you on that part. ALL need to have those. Also some of the classrooms led to other rooms and classrooms which led to more emergency exits. The model of our school was kind of complicated. Our teachers had their own keys to the door so they could lock it. Every period when it was time to switch classes, our teachers would lock the door after the students enter or exit the classroom. What does not make sense to me is that in the main entrance where parents, students, or visitors come through, there is a buzzer and camera to see who comes to the door, and if they are allowed to be entered. What about the other entrances? ALL entrances need a key card or buzzer to let students in. Also anyone can act as a parent, student, or teacher. They need to be able to identify parents, from students to even the teachers such as identity access cards or etc so they do not let the wrong person inside.
When I was in elementary school, there were NO doors on the classrooms. The front entrance was also NOT secured. You’d walk in and be able to walk to other areas of the building. Thanks to bonds, when it was totally remodeled, they went in and put doors in on all the classrooms and moved the office up to the VERY front of the building. I also remember during drills, when the teachers would have to step out into the hall and put their key in to lock the door. These doors should have seriously had the ability to lock from the inside.
My old school was like this too there was no absolutely NO locks on any doors EVEN THE ENTRANCE and the office was very far from the entrance there were also no security cameras and the building was only 1 story and it seemed pretty flat and its probably because my schools funding had barely ANY money
I don't understand why a door like this was ever designed at all. You would certainly never put a door like that on your house, why would you put it on a school. What is the logic behind it.
There have been some tragic school fires in the past (in which many children died), and I think this door design was with that in mind - that is, easier access for firefighters to get in, in order to evacuate children & teachers from a room, or possibly to contain a fire to just one room (which was hopefully empty to begin with). To give an example, the Our Lady of Angels fire in Chicago, in which 90+ children and several teachers died. There were other problems with the particular school building(s) involved, mainly that there was no convenient way of escaping the school, and that the building wasn’t up to code standards/was quite a bit older. Please don’t assume a design is poor before learning why it was made that way in the first place - true, it may be for a somewhat “outdated” reason (although fires happen quite often, generally speaking, the design might not be with the most recent tragic incidents in mind, because I’m sure it takes several years to develop and adequately test a new door design, even BEFORE adopting it as the standard in a school), but still it is designed that way for a very valid reason. Arguably, an emergency situation that is more likely to occur.
I would also like to add this link. According to these regulations and guidelines, the teacher of a classroom must open the door, lock from outside, shut the door with him- or herself inside, in order for the door not to open from the point of view of anyone in the hallway. IF teachers do not generally keep these doors locked from the outside at all times (meaning anyone leaving to use the bathroom or get something from a locker would have to be let in, and couldn’t get back into the classroom on his or her own) then it is absolutely possible for anyone to enter the classroom. If schools, therefore, are too relaxed in this practice, and not always at the ready for such an unfortunate incident to occur, then here we have a major problem: it becomes dangerous to attempt to lock the previously unlocked door when it is known there is an active shooter situation, and takes extra time to do when really everyone should be hunkering down and also barricading the entry to a classroom - with desks, books, bookcases, chairs, anything. It is possible in this very sad case that the main teacher was attempting to lock the door from the outside before shutting it (which would have locked the entry to anyone coming from the hallway), and was unable to complete this task before the shooter was able to make his way into the joint classrooms. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED508013.pdf
The high school in my town has a front door that doesn't close when you let go of it. I mean it does, but it still stays open a little bit unless you manually open or close it.
Our school when I went every door was locked. You had to be let in by a teacher or another student. Anyone who was at the doors parents etc, we told a teacher about to go take a look. You couldn’t get into the school through any doors unless you slipped in between students. The offices had a check in buzzing system. You couldn’t open the doors. You had to be checked in, then buzzed in and visitors had to have a written note from the parent. Very secure school
Finally this is being talked about. When we used to have lockdown drills, our school will use the speaker for us to hide and lock our classroom doors but for some reason, my teacher always had to open the door and lock it from the outside and then close it, I always thought was that was very unsafe n dumb.
For me my class didn’t have an intercom that worked properly…or at all..so whenever we had lockdown drills someone would have to come to our class and tell us to hide 🫣 if it was a real school shooting we would be dead simply cuz we wouldn’t know
@@mhashifter1031 yeah I can tell, most schools were built with speakers but break bc of how old some schools are and that was often some of the classrooms too at my school, some didn’t work but the speaker was connect to the phone so when they will speak, the phone will go on speaker for everyone to listen.
My old schools were the same thing looking back on all it, it makes me think why couldn’t they remodeled the doors to be locked from the inside of the classrooms but I guess it could of cost lot of money for that
Think that guy wouldn't have gotten in if they shoved a chair in the door handle plenty of survival games have that as an option to get away (last of us when trying to save ellie)
In my school we have at least every door that locks from the inside and around 30 classrooms (the front ones in the school) with doors that have a huge glass window on the door. So, if there was a situation like a shooting, there would be no where to hide in the front classrooms unless you stacked the chairs against the doors. (The front classrooms have two doors to each room)
The fact some people actually think a “locked door” would have prevented this lunatic from committing this, is insane. This was a guy who literally just shot his own grandmother in the face, shot at innocent people who were trying to help him - when he crashed his grandfathers truck, made a statement that he was on his way to an elementary school to massacre children. Do you honestly believe a locked door would have prevented this crazed gunman? He would have torn that door down. Use. Your. Brain.
I’ll add that doors and door lock mechanism are actually quite durable to gunfire. The bullshit you see on tv of someone shooting a door lock and popping a door open easily is nonsensical. Shooting out a window and reaching in to disengage a panic device is more likely, but even that can be drastically slowed down with security glass aka “security lite kit” to actually shoot out a lock would require a ton of bullets and precise knowledge if were to shoot, spray and pray on a commercial metal door frame and panic device is not going to get it done.
The first door woulda slowed him down a bit....but if you look at the classroom doors...if they woulda locked from the inside.....(like common sense would tell us)...it would have saved even more time. Usually rooms with those skinny windows have something to cover them up for lockdowns....and then the kids could hide in corners where he wouldnt be able to see them.
The door is not the problem here, the gun is. The longer we spend arguing about it, the more people are going to get killed. If this door was locked he would have just waited for people to come outside instead. Last I checked there are no doors outside.
@@inthebeginning4751 What kind of lock do you propose? Keep in mind the goals of the orginal "Classroom function lever" the industry standard for 40 years. #1 only the teacher can lock the door #2 class can be secured during school closure/after hours, #3 lock can be left unlocked for bathroom breaks and day to day practical application. With these goals in mind, show me a better lock that you can purchase off the shelf? Lock also must maintain free egress from the classroom, and be a single device on the door (no multiple locks) it should also meet ADA compliance... go ahead, i'll wait while you find something...
I’ve actually said this to every teacher I’ve ever went on lockdown with “can’t they break the glass and get in anyways I don’t understand why they have windows right beside the doors
If you ever watch the entire surveillance footage. You will notice that the coward shoots the door before entering the classroom. My guess, a teacher was trying to hold the door closed.
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
His Grandma ( the one he shot before he went to the school) works at the school as a Teacher's Aide. He would have access to the security and design of the school simply by visiting her there.
@@saxonsoldier67 oh wow. That’s the first I’ve heard the grandmother worked there. That’s how it worked in his favor. Also the shooter had a cousin in one of the classes that he shot and killed.
Aside from the failed door strike, there were no faulty doors. Perhaps incompetent staff for leaving it unsecured, but that’s not the door’s fault
You know what is even worse? The fact that everything went in his favor just BEFORE that day. But hey, let's focus on doors.
Evil won that day for some unknown reason. It’s sickening.
Don’t blame the doors, blame the cowards that didn’t go in and save those kids!! 🤦🏽♂️🤬
THANK YOU!!!!
Just because they're at fault doesn't mean there weren't other factors in play🤡 Some people choose to look at the whole picture others act on emotion.
Well yea that part too, but if it weren't for a faulty door he would of never been able to get in and kill
@@lili8686z To be fair I have not been to a school that the classroom doors weren't only lockable from the outside. After the school shootings in Florida they started making teachers lock their doors all day and the teachers had to go outside and outside and lock the door
Yup
It's hilarious how they are trying to shift responsibility onto the door
There're not shifting blame That's just how you interpret it. The door issue is just one part of the equation of the entire problem. lol
@@timmartin7664 its shifting when it's broadcast on national news
@@miurtouissi1093 Ok if you say so.
@@miurtouissi1093 Well from what I saw broadcast on the national news there were muliple failures and the door lock issue was just one of many Clearly you just saw that one. lol
@@timmartin7664 I saw this channel try to diminish cops incompetence from the beginning and other channels blame them from the beginning. They all have their biais I'm just aware of it. I hope you are too
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
I think doors that go outwards are sometimes installed incase of a fire. There's incidents where ppl were trapped because they ended up blocking the door from opening by having a bunch of ppl pushing against a door that goes inward. One case is the NYC triangle shirtwaist fire
What’s really shameful is to have to tell the kids there could be a random shooter at their school.
@@jasb25 amen.
Does Uvalde have a fire marshal if so fire them as well. They are the ones requiring doors remain unlock when the building is occupied. This device on the door is so you can get out but you can’t get in. The Fire Marshal apparently was not checking the doors at the school. Every burger shop has a similar device & sign stating this door must remain unlock when the building is occupied. Fire Marshal-Fire Marshal and Fire Marshal. Uvalde municipal is the epitome of SLEEPY little town.
My high school got rebuilt like 4 years ago, and they made every classroom have huge windows to the hallways. The windows arent reinforced or anything, and they’re like 4 feet wide by 10 feet tall. There’s two windows per classroom.
The worse place to be in case of a shooting would be the second floor since there’s no way of exiting the building unless you go out onto the hallway, run down the stairs and outside. You could also stay inside the classroom and wait till the windows get shot out and oh well rip.
I find it so idiotic how a modern school was built so poorly in case of a shooting. Not only that but the school got a 1mil grant for building a statue and a community park, yet they don’t use that money for a little more security.
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.
I wondered that same thing--how this could not have come up as an issue if law enforcement had actually done real trainings and drills in that school? It's disgraceful and enraging.
The teacher reported it but the principal didn't take it seriously
@@TenaciousSLG it because the school did training with swatt team which never showed up the local police wasn't trained and should've just in case no matter what.
They all knew they won't be telling us that though. They literally all would go through it each day to get lunch etc.
Unfortunately many drills and training exercises are carried out and treated like team-off-work days.
Show up, go through 1-2 scenarios on projector, tea break, a few theories, lunch one practical scenario sign attendance go home.
Too much time and emphasis is put on following written policy and procedures to the letter, nothing/ not much on personal initiative and responsibility.
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.
Exactly and all our tax money is going into these fat, lazy govt officials pockets instead of going into schools and highways.🤦🏽♀️
Sad and shameful, but true.
It’s not poor it’s just negligence and people don’t want to deal with all the legwork it takes. Sometimes things like that can take months to get resolved.
maybe they shouldn't spend 40% of the budget on cops who are pussies
I always was in at least one classroom with an unlock-able door
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
The school was probably built in the 50's. This stuff was unthinkable to them.
my high school had magnetic locks that each student/faculty had to have an ID card to unlock it, if you weren't attending school (like its summer or you've graduated) the cards aren't activated
I bet they get their mandatory pronoun, trans, and other touchy-feely training. Get rid of the Teachers Union and allow teachers to practice thinking for themselves. Surely a good citizen in Uvalde would have made necessary repairs to the doors. The bureaucracy of work orders and restrictions on who can do the work assures nothing gets done. Give Principals the freedom to run their schools and not remote bureaucrats.
@@Joseph-rx9tp It is not the 50’s. Your home and business are required to be brought up to code. Bring schools up or shut them down. They were shut down for Covid.
@@loublev5098 Yeah I agree. The original post was trying to shift blame to the designers of the school. It's not their fault.
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.
Here we go what kind of person complains for four years about a broken lock without doing a darn thing? Do you think this community did not have a locksmith? Take action people and stop whining which is not a good example for the students.
@@loublev5098 We aren't allowed to. The average teacher invests almost $2k per year into their classroom, we have absolutely no problem paying for things. 1) No locksmith will work on someone else's property without signed consent. 2) We aren't permitted to make any changes to the building unless we go through Admin, as I attempted for years. The kids aren't the only people who die, teachers do too. We are very aware of the risk we take by simply attempting to educate the next generation.
@KMusic Teachers should not use their own money. A man once said I know how to make the rabbit hop. Perhaps a random uninvited visit by the fire marshal. Schools should get parents more involved with their needs instead of treating them like the enemy. Might upset the teachers union - so what.
@@loublev5098 1) I don't teach in a unionized state. Many teachers work in states with little or no union representation. 2) Fire Marshall's see absolutely no problem with doors that don't lock. They don't consider shooting situations. A Fire Marshall is more likely to get after me for having window coverings. Typically school doors lock from the outside, so that a child cannot lock themselves in without a teacher. Doors are then kept locked at all times, with a magnet hold the door slightly adjacent. That is standard practice. Fire Marshalls like open doors. Many think that locked doors on exteriors are enough. 3) We've lost a lot of parent involvement since the pandemic. Many just got used to not coming in. I personally welcome parent involvement. Most of the CRT indoctrination and gender indoctrination lies might vanish, if parents could come in and see for themselves that we aren't teaching anything like that. Parents are welcome in my classroom at any time. I haven't had a parent take me up on that since 2019.
A teacher with a gun would not worry about a bad guy easy fix
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.
You seem to be believing the latest version of bullshit the police are giving us.
They said a few days ago the door wasn't locked and that police never tried to get in door but it was unlocked they could have been in if they wanted to this whole story is deeply disturbing to me it's so horrific
The part that amazes me is youtube commenters who weren't there! Seem to be the ones who are the most angry about the way Uvalde police officers "failed to respond" you do understand on the day of the incident you weren't there. So how would you kno
@@caroldunkin2371 McCraw said that but he is biased about all of this considering he had more DPS cops there than any other agency and they also did nothing. BTW, McCraw also said surveillance video didn't show which classoom door the shooter went in but then said surveillance video did show that no cops checked the classroom door. Something seems wrong with that statement.
@@rogersmith7808 something terribly wrong with this whole situation so much of it doesn't add up one thing i do know that when it comes to defenseless innocent children most of us would do anything to try and save them regardless of the circumstances to us
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?
That's the point, he wasn't locked inside at all. According to video footage, the cops never even attempted to open the classroom doors by even turning the handle, they assumed they were locked. All that time wasted waiting for a master key for doors that can't even be locked from the inside to begin with. Smh 🙄
According to the way the locks worked shooter as well as children might of been prevented from "leaving" the 2 classrooms but nothing was stopping people from "entering" the classrooms. Seems the locks made the doors become 1 way entry points when locked but on the wrong side.
Congrats on catching up with what the video already told us.
How could he have tried all of the keys?
so... now police training needs to include how to respond to an unlockable door....
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.
The magnetic stip is pretty flawed, since the teacher has to go out to remove it, my schools had auto locking doors
@@cgmason7568 The school district I worked in had 11 schools plus the admin building. You do not have go out of the room to remove the strip. You open the door slightly and remove it and the door locks. It takes a few seconds to do this. This way the teacher does not have to go looking for a key and then go outside the door to lock it. The locks on all the doors were always locked, the magnet just prevents the latch to go into the latch hole. Not sure what you mean by auto locking doors, but if it is an electronic system that has to be installed it sounds costly. There are a lot of poor districts in the US and that might not be affordable. The magnetic strip is pretty cheap and fast.
If youre a locksmith you should know at 0:49 the blackhole by the pushbar is A LOCK you stick a L shaped wrench in there to lock the door,
@@everythingpony I believe that is for "dogging" the door latch. It does not unlock or lock the lock. What it does is hold the latch in so that it does not go into the latch hole. But what is the point you are trying to make?
Imagine being an architect saving money on doors, and being partly responsible for the deaths of 21 people
It's not the architects fault- its the schools fault and the school borders fault for not supplying strong resources for the school-
shame on you for even blaming architects-
What the fck? The only one responsible is the shooter. And beyond that, the US government for still having such lax gun laws. No one fucking needs a gun. The rest of the developed world does brilliantly without them. Thanks and goodnight.
Childrens** 😢
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.
I think the schools in my town are like that too I'm going to drive around sometime and look cuz I haven't been to the school in years but from what I remember they look like this.. I hope that the other schools around are paying attention to this, and make changes so many people like to believe it's never going to happen in their hometown and they just don't know that it can happen anywhere at any school doesn't matter where you live..
My elementary school didn't have doors, just large openings in the wall. Some teachers would cover it with cabinets to try and make the entrances smaller. Some of the rooms also didn't have walls dividing them. The school was built before regulations on the student to teacher ratio were put in. I really hope that the classrooms have added doors and walls now. Unfortunately the school sits in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city so I don't imagine it will happen.
my elementary school has windows at the top of the walls of concrete and these windows are a bit slim but these windows go across one wall but all teachers are provided with curtains or shutters
My classrooms didn’t have doors, just gaps between walls for each room.
@@karicrosman792 you do realize some crazy person can just walk in with a knife and start stabbing you and the students right? What is so hard about doors that are secure and lock properly?
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
Right I didn’t imagine this at all as a high schooler, reminds me of elementary school with all the painted walls
There’s no capacity to put yourself in their shoes. This is evil at its purest and you can only know of it when you experience it.
@@eddiecabrera7549 I get your point but don't be a dick. Not the time. Read the room.
It's absolutely ASTONISHING the hoops these people are willing to jump through when the obvious solution is to put trained armed guards in schools.
My flipping local FRED MEYERS has an armed security guard at each entrance. Pistol, vest, cuffs, the whole nine yards.
There is NO excuse. They WANT this to continue happening.
@@kgpspyguy exactly
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.
Exactly. Society was different.
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.
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.
Well said!
I see you got teacher pay in there. 😒 The states should fund, not the feds.
The Gov is too busy stealing our tax dollars, laundering money and placing it in off-shore accounts.
Those locks were designed to keep kids from locking teachers out of the classroom, and easily escape a fire. Which had been a perfectly fine expectation of a lock until about 2010.
Teachers and cops should switch salaries! Our teachers should be making 100k plus per year not our very incompetent cops!
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.
Yea, let's all sue for shit that can't be changed after the fact cause we all know suing and getting a big pay off fixes everything. NOT! Sue the teacher that assumed and her family. Yea, go for it.
@@jbfane where did they say sue the teacher? They said the incompetent PD and the Texas government who’s doing absolutely nothing to rectify the issue.
I hope a lot of people decide to make the wise choice and move out of this country because of this tragedy
@@Kevbot6000 Kevin, I said sue the teacher. The teacher is the one who proped the door open and then closed it without locking it.
@@lovelylucy07 Do you need help packing your bags? Then call a mover.
the other problem with the doors is that there were 400 cops behind them stopping heros from doing their job.....
We need to be putting a lot more money into the security of our schools instead of things we don’t need as a country.
blame obama for our shitty public school system
How about gun control? There was one mass shooting in the 80’s or 90’s here in Australia and now we have strict gun control and no school or mass shootings.
@@pooodonklooopdoop5672 I would agree with you if the 2nd amendment wasn’t so ingrained in American culture. Other countries that successfully implemented gun control didn’t have to deal with that.
OR BANNING THE FUCKING WEAPONS USED TO SHOOT CHILDREN EVER THOUGHT OF THAT
how about we get rid of guns so we dont act like we need a fortress in public schools?
The problem with those doors was that on the other side were fumbling "officers" waiting for orders to save kids. Make that make sense🤦🏽♀️
They weren't waiting for their orders, they already had their orders. The only fumbling going on was youtube commenters watching tik tok videos
@@gordsruby5963 please do explain. What were their orders? To do nada?
@@cloud8315 No problem, the orders from the chief of police were to stand down!! That means he takes full responsibility. I can understand it may be difficult for you to understand from your cellphone tik tok videos, but McDonald's is not the only place that takes orders. I hope I have educated you sir have a blessed day! And remember.... we can never forgot the children, but we must never forget the killer.
@@gordsruby5963 ma'am I'm not a sir🤦🏽♀️ I agree we must not forget the children, the killer AND those others who held guns with the ability to stop some of those killings. Oh yeah let's also not forget the mother who defied those "cops" climbed a fence and saved her two children👍🏻
@@cloud8315 Some....of those killings? You're not even in the vicinity lady!! Use your common sense!!! A gunman barricaded in a classroom with children is NOT the idea of a regular day at the park. Officer's entering, rushing, storming, busting in a classroom dumping thousands of rounds into one person is absolutely retarded. I don't care what idiot country you come from, it's not an easy task. You know the facts, you know the gunman killed the children, because it's all over!!!! But you were on tik tok Watching videos, eating Popeye's chicken while children were being slaughtered like pigs. Yet where were you? Why do you know so much now then the cops knew then? It's simple you were on your phone and you're out here like everyone else blaming everything that ain't nailed to the ground. You need to look closer at the man who shot a child so badly he was decapitated from his gunshot wounds. You need to blame him.
The door is not the issue. The issue is the cowards in the hallway, listening to children be slaughtered. Keep your eye on the ball people.
No child has ever been killed in a school shooting that was able to get behind a locked door, look it yo. Yes the police were cowards, but if both of those doors were locked, we would have a very different story.
Remember, the door should function perfectly but doesn't because I'm assuming lack of funding which Republicans are in favor of removing public funding from public schools. The door is just part of a myriad of problems that stem from bigger issues.
Doors are a distant second to the cowardly and stupidity of the police responders.
Well said. This feels like a deliberate distraction. They let those kids die, and now they're grabbing at straws to explain it all away. It's sickening.
Agree 💯 Cowards!!
This makes me thankful for my school’s extra security measures. I’m in a region where there isn’t many shootings but it’s still very important to invest in extra safety, especially at a time like this.
As a teacher in Texas who has worked in lower income schools- those types of doors that only lock on the outside and do not have an ID badge scanner to get in are very common. We also had many classroom doors that would not lock so we had to learn how to place a student chair a certain way on the door handle for lockdown drills. Teachers tried to address it every year but it always led back to "we don't have the funds." Now, I work in a district that has more funding however, I have never seen a classroom door that is able to lock from the inside.
I bet those excess funds were given as bonuses to the superintnentent to maintain their lavish lifestyle.
It just gets worse every freakin' day. It is just jaw-dropping.
As such as every tragedy
imagine going to school these days, it's terrifying
lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@princess5625 how exactly is this funny?
I bet if these doors were on a sports facility they’d be fixed immediately. Our priorities are upside down.
Like not giving shit about guns but doors.
No if they where doors in Ukraine maybe
@@marshymellowyellow8104 False.
The windows could have been shattered as they where just plate.
The root issue is the gun.
Why do Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy.
All have equal infrastructure and mental health issues. But no where near as many shooting or murders.
The US has 5x more murder not shootings and about 30x more shootings.
Stop killing americans because your mricropenis and failed knowledge of statistics.
What does this have to with a sports facility? The people that work at the sport facility fix their doors. What does this got to do with the people that work at Robb elementary?
@@realnamehidden1314 I will try to go in order . Use numbers for clarity.
1) Harvard Injury Control Research has a study that directly link the number of guns into a country to gun deaths. The rate increases with the number of guns,
Harvard did a brilliant job listing multiple sources, studies and data easily available in links on that page.
You can also match up more data links on Worldpopulation review.
Yes those two meta analysis point and link to several studies with corresponding data.
Yes we know you gun nuts literally avoid the fact we have mountains of data on this because yes facts hurt your feelings.
2) Yes equal infrastructure is important because with out the enforcement mechanism like Police, Justice System, set up to tracking Serial Numbers, the bureaucracy ( oh it sucks but is necessary)aka infrastructure. UK or Japan have the systems in place. Somalia or Bangladesh not so much. You match people in your weight class so to speak.
3) Yes Mental Health per capita. Is on par in every country. WorldpopulationReview again. There is no more mental issues in the US than other countries. Simple search of "Rate of mental health issue per capita by country" The fact you never look this up is prove you avoid facts that are inconvenient for you.
I provide citations above and before. You are require to search with the prompts I gave as YT anti-spam feature blocks links.
4) Again World Population review list that data. It is a great metadata source (that means cross checking multiple data points and studies).
Also why did I point out murders versus mass shooting. Because gun nuts are train to say 1 of 2 responses (Bad people will just find a another way or What about stabbing and people killed by knifes!?) Which is exactly you need to point out if bad people will "just find another way" That would mean all murder rates would be equal. And turns out they aren't meaning reduction of guns via gun control laws. Is effective at not only reduce mass shootings but effective on reducing over all murders as well.
5)"Why do anti-gun people always think about other men’s cocks when talking about guns?"
Yes why? Because gun nuts constant believe they need a gun to "be a man to protect their family" The very fact they use to validate their "manhood' is why we see your fragile egos.
Now comes you tepid deflections of never going to read the sources and Citations I gave but looking for excuses of why you don't like them.
No one mentions that the peep window in the door also makes it where the shooter can see which rooms have survivors hiding in it and which ones don't. If they didn't have hallway facing windows, they can just shelter in place and lock the door [well about that]. They won't know which rooms are occupied or vacant and will be wasting time trying to bust into vacant rooms giving the police more time to ste in before there are mass casualties. Especially if they had literally all doors locked and made it where without a room number list, you can't tell what is a class room, caffeteria, janitors closet, restroom, etc. Every door looks identical, has no hall facing windows, and is labeled only with a sequential room #... the creep would be spending most of his time trying to bust down doors to janitors closets, restrooms, etc.
Every one forgets that the shooter went to this school as a child so he knew where everything was. I would be billing to bet that he went straight to the classroom he went to as a child or to the class of a teacher he didn't like.
the way that the kid looked around the corner and saw him shoot it gave me chills
Chill? You watch too much porn
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.
How man mass shooting in Germany?
What were the gun laws in Germany?
The schools I went to here in America specifically California the doors also could only be locked from the outside like in the video
Bruh I’m convinced 90% of TH-cam is from Germany
Actually I have doors like that in my school too but I’m in America
@@sham9505 I guess you run into us a lot cause german TH-cam is absolute trash lol
My school and classroom had these same doors with locks on the outside. It's a fire code issue. Students need to be able to exit from inside quickly. Also, you don't want children to be able to lock a teacher/adult out of the classroom. That's a safety issue. We teachers were trained and drilled to keep doors locked at all times. My guess is that it was the last week of school, parents coming and going for awards ceremonies, class party supplies being brought in, so the door was unlocked for convenience by someone. So tragic and that person will never forgive themselves.
You haven't watched news coverage on this at all and it shows.
?? How can you keep the doors in the classrooms locked at all times if they lock from the outside? How would you get out of the classroom after every class then?
It’s not the teachers fault for going outside for a moment. Many people go out to their cars for a moment throughout the day, at school, work, or wherever.
I can’t believe how many people point the finger at a single person without sufficient knowledge and witness of what happened at that moment.
The door didn’t work properly when she came back in!
You can’t blame this whole tragedy on someone you don’t know or didn’t witness the situation!
I feel badly for her, for she’s been sentenced as guilty for this whole disaster.
The shooter shot through windows too, so I guess the schools at fault for not having bullet-proof windows.
How about blaming the teachers for not having guns themselves to protect themselves and the kids?
There were other kids out at recess that he could’ve targeted, instead of the kids inside. I guess you’d blame the school for allowing recesses to be held.
I blame the sale of the guns and ammo to an 18 year old!!
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u do you also blame Ford or GM for car accidents? Do you blame Pepsi when you pee your pants? I could have fun with your looney leftist ideas that you had to find someone else with 2 brain cells... And you're still wrong.
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u leave it up to a liberal to vilify the innocent, and praise the guilty... Not surprising.
Much of the country extends sympathies to the dead...you?? You praise the teacher as you feel sorry for her. Facts don't care about your feelings!
Yes, you are entirely correct... It IS a fire code issue. The facts are contained in NFPA 101, and more specifically, in NFPA 80. Those codes have used science, fact, history, statistics and input from many areas of expertise to create them to keep people safe. With over more than 3000 school fires in a year here in the US you then tell me which is the greater danger to loss of life. Most people with intelligence will answer that fire 🔥🚒 is the greater danger due to greater occurrences.
That door did a better job holding back the cop than the shooter, considering they "waited" for a key to a door that couldn't be locked.
It can be locked, 0:49 look to the right of the push bar, see that black hole? You stick a L shaped wrench or a pen/pensial and it locks from the inside
Doors at a business I worked at were exactly like this. When I asked why, I was told it was to locked up the place when leaving so that no one would come in after everyone left and steal.
I would imagine this type of door is very common is areas that are suppose to be closed off to the public after business hours conclude.
Rest In Peace Angels 👼 💔💔💔
Majority of the older buildings have classroom doors that can only be locked by physically inserting a key and locking it from the outside. By then it’s too late in a situation as this. Although, we are trained that our doors are to remain locked and closed at all times. With Covid and issues with ventilation it is just a loose, loose situation 😢.
This was just pure wickedness and evil. May their souls Rest In Peace.
This is pretty common, the lock function is literally called “classroom function”. This means the door can be locked or unlocked from the outside only with a key, and cannot be locked from the inside.
It can be lock from the inside, there is a little black hole by the pushbar at 0:49 that is a inside lock, you stick a alen L wrench, usally a janitor has it, to lock it
@@everythingpony that’s not to lock it. That’s only to dog a door equipped with panic bars, or keep the door unlocked. Fire rated doors don’t allow that function though.
What’s crazy is that I remember the locks being on the inside of every school I went to: private school, middle school, high school, and even in college. The locks were ALWAYS on the inside. The Uvalde incident is probably the only time I’ve ever seen locks on the exterior side.
0:49 the lock is right there, the blackhole is used for locking the pushbar
The elementary school by my house where I attended as a child is also very very easy to get in, doors never locked from the outside and the security guard desk is facing away from the door 🤦♂️ . It blows my mind how these schools haven’t learned from past incidents
Yeah the doors in my district lock the same way. I never even thought about how much of a design flaw that is. I always just assumed the door should and would always be locked.
It’s not a design flaw, the Von Duprin 99 panic device shown here, a proven and reliable design from the 1970’s (still made brand new, today) was designed for fire escape, not Wild West insane land. Furthermore they can be set up to an undefeatable auto lock if speced appropriately ( fire rated 99, store room trim). They are more commonly sold with dogging mechanism and classroom trim however, as it’s far more flexible but less resistant to idiots leaving shit unlocked.
@@mikeweatherford5312 someone with your knowledge should be present in that courtroom. A bunch of questions with no answers because they didn't think to bring in an expert. Yet another screw up or minimally a delay in this process. In any case case, thanks for the info.
I dont see an issue on d doors, The problem was on d hall, Cowards
@@mikeweatherford5312 But it is still a flaw because of the fact that there are doors that lock from the inside with a turn lock that does not require a key. it takes one extra second to turn the lock before opening the door. my schools had such doors that were also fire-resistant.
NO door should EVER lock from the outside other than prison cell doors.
Think about the door to your house. where does it lock from? inside. your bedroom & bathroom doors? inside. there is a reason for that. when they lock from the inside, you both have a layer of threat protection & the ability to easily unlock the door (from the inside) in the event of a fire.
@@kalyn3483 You could put a thumb-turn cylinder in a key dog panic device, but then kids can just walk up and tamper with it. Panic hardware is not really designed to stop an attack in the way you describe. It's meant to secure a building when the business is closed, and it's meant to ensure escape during a fire. Locking from the inside is not a requirement for either one of these goals. This is the way panic hardware has been made for 60 years. Free, one motion egress (escape) is required at all times, you cannot be required to disengage any kind of thumb turn or latch from the inside, in the event of a burning building, full of smoke, people panic and rush for the doors, even the simplest obstacle to escape can, and has lead to mass death. There are many laymen making comments about things they don't understand. Door hardware is far more complex then you realize. Also, I think you are confused by the term "Lock from the outside" these doors are always free egress, you can always escape, lock from the outside means you can't freely enter. Your comparisons to residential hardware are completely irrelevant, commercial is a totally different application, with a different set of requirements, homes do not have to meet fire code, homes do not have 100+ people in them.
the doors at the school i used to go to we’re only able to be locked from the outside. meaning you physically had to leave the room to lock the door. my teachers all kept their doors closed and locked no matter what so i was always safe but it’s still a terrible design.
Our doors back in hs worked the same way. What we did to be safe was keep the door handles locked at all times from the outside and had a magnet over the door frame so the door could be pulled open from the outside during normal times of the day. To lock the doors, all one needed to do was move the magnet and let the door close
0:49 they lock from the inside, look to the right of the pushbar, see that black hole? It takes a L shaped wrench to lock it from the inside
I have worked at 2 different school in diff states and when this happened I said the same! We have to lock doors from outside then get back in class and hide! I always thought this was dumb and the door knob was complicated. You have to turn its a certain way for it to lock, I made sure I practiced a few times. But under duress anyone could mess up!
Sad really 😢
FIRE CODE
@@las2725 yes FIRE CODE but its still dumb! In this day and age, we should have a better lock system for our doors in schools that accomodates all regulations that will keep teachers and students safe.
So true.
I agree with you 100%.
Lack of police response killed the children. It had nothing to do with doors. The doors were unlocked. There is nothing wrong with the doors or the design of the doors. This is a police smoke screen cover-up.
There is most definitely an issue when teachers think they’re exterior doors lock (after seeing a gun man) but they don’t lock. That is complete b.s. Do you know how many doors regularly lock behind you automatically in public? The exterior door should have locked!! It IS part of the issue in addition to lack of police response, AR-15 gun laws, growing mental health issues and lack of police transparency!! The ignorant door design is outrageous! What is a lock down without freaking locked doors?!?!
If the doors had been looked to begin with, the shooter would have been confronted outside the school.
Correction.... access to high powered assault weapons is what killed those kids. Along with poor police response
Let's not scapegoat the truth
@@brandyparker8961 no duumbass. Even if the door is lock. The guy have a fawking ar15. You do know 5.56 blow that lock off the door right? Also most school door have a small window. He could of broken the window and just reach in and press on the bar to open the door. So duumb fk, what about the door were you talking about again? Lmao
@@godsmission5845 Interesting. Inroder to properly regulate these weapons and prevent "high powered assault weapons" from getting in the wrong hand we must first identify what a "high powered assault weapon" is. At what point does an assault weapon become high powered? Is there such thing as a low powered assault weapon? And what even is an assault weapon?
I work for a middle school, we have a door in the back of our library that anyone can leave unlocked like a deadbolt. Students are too lazy to go through the main entrance and leave the door unlocked for each other when leaving for class. They will even unlock it when they leave class for the bathroom. We can't see that door from the library desk, we don't know when people go in and out of that door let alone who. I have busted multiple kids who have snuck in through that door to ditch class. I've even caught students making out. There is only 1 security camera in the entire library and it can not see that door. I was at another school in another district for a job interview and I noticed that their library doors were the same as ours but their doors required a key to leave unlocked. I brought the idea and my safety concerns up to admin, they ignored me. I brought up the concerns to security and they told me that I should just talk to our school maintenance guy. He agreed with me 100% that it needed to happen but the district locksmiths said my suggestion was "unsafe" and "against fire code." Our school has a serious issue with short staff due to "budget cuts," kids not giving a sh*t, and parents actually telling kids we have no authority over them, that I am waiting for the day that door is used by a mass shooter.
These are just classroom function locks and that's how they always have been, from back in the day before shooters were a thing. Modern classroom intruder function provides interior control of the locked or unlocked outside trim state. Storeroom function would also work but never allow an unlocked exterior. The exterior panic door in question just needs a nightlatch/storeroom function trim that remains locked after key entry and the door can only be held open by "dogging down" the pushbar from inside using a hex/Allen key. The glass is required by law to be a safety type, tempered or laminated with laminated being the better choice as tempered will blow up an go into a tiny pieces, but tempered is cheaper so that's likely what you get. Laminated will stay in place with much additional hacking required to clear the opening. I guarantee when new door hardware is approved the board will likely give the work to some outside vendor and beat the local locksmith who has probably been advocating for improvement all along out of the work. To my knowledge the government has never issued an SIC code for locksmiths to compete on these bids. Door hardware being considered "carpenter work", despite locksmithing being an ancient trade of more knowledgeable individuals. So when the carpenter's are done the story will now be that doors can just be credit carded open or levers tear off from them omitting the throughbolts intended to fasten them on well. Locksmiths are slighted by union and lobby interests and lack the backing to raise the capitol to be legitimately included in the build and renovations process. Locks seem to be carpenter work until the work gets tricky, such as full mortise installations and then the carpenter's come calling to sub us out for a door or two. That's just the American way, like it or not we are in a bad position to help schools out despite being the better choice.
0:49 they lock from the inside, look to the roght of the pushbar, see that black hole? You stick a L shaped wrench in there and it locks it from the inside
This whole shooting is beyond the problem of unlocked doors
It is a building code requirement that exit doors have panic hardware.
Not sure about the vision pane and side lights, but they also seem to be quite common in schools also.
The exit door was either never locked in the first place (which is possible to do depending on how the key is turned), or the latch failed to engage when the teacher removed the prop earlier.
Yes, there are fire codes found in NFPA 101, and more specifically, 80, that deal with exit egress in a fire 🔥🚒 emergency.
i’m so lucky to have a new school with double doors(all working as they should), classroom doors that lock from both sides, and a deputy that is assigned to come to the school every day.
That is absolutely insane. Glad to live in a place where our schools have the funding to not only have the best of the best in terms of security, but also the budget to fix if any of those are broken, at any time
Where's that??
Glad to live in a place where guns are not legal for a 6 year old child
@@ericabourland1012 Pennsylvania
Consider the fact that he could’ve easily attacked people at random once school was out.I’m talking about children,parents,relatives of the kids,siblings and any arriving police.Things just happen to “go down” the way they did
Imagine that if it hadn't of been the day of the end-of-year awards assembly, there probably would've been twice as many kids in those two classrooms. Over half of the kids went home with their parents when the awards assembly was over.
"Neither of the widow panes were reinforced" ??? When they were building that school, I don't think the architect ever thought about school shootings!
That school was built In The 60s
The school district and local police should have hardened the glass with security film (think of it as thick clear window tint). It can be added after initial construction. The door issues should have been addressed as well during training for a school shooter incident which allegedly happened about 9 weeks before this disaster. For a few thousand dollars, a school can be secured for a short period until courageous police arrive.
@@saxonsoldier67 all schools districts should replace all doors and windows with bullet proof ones. Then they should remodel the ceilings of each classroom as an attic to hide in. That alone would probably save lives if the districts didn't have enough funds to install bullet proof doors and windows.
@@Wondorawoman Not practical to have bullet proof ones everywhere. Security film can delay intruders. Hiding in attics ? Would have made no difference in this case as the police would have still waited outside for far too long. The shooter's Grandma worked at this school. He had access to its security and design. Even bullet proof doors and windows have limits. All they can do is delay a determined intruder. Courageous police were needed.
...back in he day before every punk kid packed a small arsenal...
in most offices i've worked in, our doors were like this. you had to be able to escape during a fire by pressing the bar. you could lock it from the inside, but with a little pin type thing and they were very prone to breaking. so then you could only lock it from the outside with a key.
That door can be locked from the inside. The exit door with the press-bar to exit is the exact same as those used in my school district, and in order to lock them you place an allen key into the hole on the right of the bar and twist it. All of the administrators in my district have allen keys on their keychains for this purpose.
Thank you, my god people are dumb, you can see it at 0:49
I am a teacher !!!!! And in all the schools that I have worked the doors are the same !!! You can only locked them from the out side !!!!! I never understand why!!
Because it’s a fire hazard to lock from the inside. It’s easy to lock from the outside.
It’s not a fire hazard,( the door still opens freely, from the inside, even if locked from the inside, you can always escape, you only control exterior locking) it’s more a practical issue. It’s kind of a big ask to expect a manufactor like allegion, Jackson, assy abbloy or Sargent to design and sell a unicorn bespoke lock just for schools, made in small batches, when the tried and true standard panic device is good for all other commercial applications. As tall an order as it is though, they are working on it. We’ve never “needed” it before. Times are a changing. You’d need to put keyed locks on both sides of the door, only controlling the exterior handle, always allowing free egress via the push bar, it can be done, but it’s a big ask. Fire code won’t permit supplemental locks, you can only have one lock, and it must open with a single motion with no special skills or knowledge. There’s good cause for this, as in the previous 100 years or so you were far more likely to die in a fire then a school shooting.
I lost it after he said “over 340,000 doors across Texas” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 y’all really talking about doors and door design when that’s not the solution to mass shootings.
@Austin Weathers You aren’t getting my point and you’re still talking about something that has nothing to do with stopping that shooting. We’re the only developed nation in this world that lets everyone just run free when it comes to getting a gun. Something that can easily kill someone, that that’s the reason why he killed those kids not because of a stupid door or door design.
I’m glad that at my school u have to use keycards to get into the door and the only way students get into the school is if the people at the front desk press a button for the front doors to unlock and also u can lock the doors from the inside and the outside
In the body cam video offers couldn't open some of doors even from the outside of hallway, they were using keys too but didn't open also
The door was not locked. So the commander telling that story of nervously trying the keys was a complete lie...
That’s what I was thinking. At no time during the entire hour and 14 minute video of the police and other agents scurrying about in the hallway did ANYONE try to check to see if the door was even open. A flat out lie by the Chief. Reprehensible!
Well the entry team did use a key on door tough. According to DPS meeting.
I worked as a custodian for a junior high for many years and I can promise you that every door in our building locked exactly how these doors do.
Yup All off them are like this all my older schools too
You talking about the hex wrench hold at 0:49 where YOU CAN LOCK IT FROM THE INSIDE, to the right of the push bar is a blackhole for a hex wrench
You can have doors that easy to open in an emergency like a fire (and these are required by code) or you can have doors that are very resistant to intrusion. But it is much more difficult to have both. In this case, at a minimum, you would need to either get rid of the side lights or use reinforced glass. Of course, both of those options would dramatically slow firefighters in the event of a fire, which is statistically, a much greater threat. But if the school can't even bother to lock the doors, it doesn't really matter.
Oh… I see, so it’s completely normal and acceptable for a teenager to have an AR15, drive like crazy, and crash his car, but man, whoever installed those doors is a monster.
The utter incompetence and indifference of the school district is beyond words.
You said school system but not police department. Interesting.
*Of the cops.
Unfortunately when the schools don’t get enough funds things like maintenance and such get set aside or overlooked. Especially in small towns or more poverty stricken areas.
i recently subbed at an elementary school that didn’t have locks on their doors ….incredibly sad
The doors are a distraction from the fact the officers stood in the hallway and didn't bother attempting to open the door. It was unlocked
Chief Cowardondo needs to do time.
top cop of any school should have been all over this, but i guess that would have required someone doing their job all across texas and who knows where else.
We have same doors at our schools in CA. You have to use a little pin and put in the little hole while pushing in that long metal bar on door in order to lock it. As long as that bar is pushed in it is locked from the outside. You can unlock from outside with a key while people indoors can open freely. We are required to leave it like like this at all times. Or you can permanently unlock with the pin in the hole. You know it is unlocked when that metal bar is not pushed in. The pin is usually hung nearby on wall. Sad fact it takes a while to lock door and shooter probably would have made it in before she locked it.
I work in a clinic and my door is lockable from outside only while the next door's office can be locked from the inside. Ugh.
It's so sad to think that those are the kinds of thing schools in the US need to worry about. None of the classrooms in my schools growing up had any locks so that's something i'd never worry about when building a school. I hope things get better and this doesn't have to be a concern in the future
indeed even going to school is a danger now. The list of school shooting is very long since Columbine shooting.
It's not just for shooters. You realize how easy it would be for a predator to walk through a backdoor, pretend he's staff, and kidnap a child??? The severity of the door issue can't be understated. Shootings aside, they endangered the kids from all sorts of threats.
It's sickining, I'm from the UK and all my school doors run on key cards (I know this is very common in a lot of UK schools) I do not go to a private school, and go to a large state school in quite a rough area. The doors lock themselves and only teachers have access to the doors they need to open. For example, an English teacher has a key card that can only open doors in the English block. Why isn't this something that is introduced into the USA, it's not something that requires whole new doors. But instead something as simple as replacing the lock. I am obviously not blaming this shooting the fact that the doors have the wrong locks. As I think it's clear what the issue is and why so many shootings happen all across America and my heart goes out to all those families and everyone in America who are stuck in a nation that will not fix the gun law issues.
“I’m from the Uk-“
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some schools in the united states do have this keycard feature
We had something like that at my middle school except that we used physical keys instead; the doors always locked themselves. American schools are often terribly underfunded (like other aspects of American society such as healthcare), especially in red states.
@@lsbclown4841 yeah one of my old elementary schools I used to go at had it, the school was south Jordan elementary in Utah
@@dr.noname1234 It's worth listening to what they have to say, considering they do not have even a small fraction of the school shootings that occur in the United States so frequently. It's time to get off your high horse, grandpa.
My elementary school didn't have any enclosed rooms and we could only huddle behind our bookshelves like they're not going to have free range to go in and look. Our next option was to hide in our cubbies that could easily be opened from the outside. They only renovated and made enclosed rooms after I graduated to 6th grade. I'm glad we didn't have much of the school shootings back then because my whole school was a liability. As a new parent, I will never let my child attend a school with open rooms.
My first high school had doors like this but the second high school I think they could lock on both the inside and outside. Our doors automatically locked on the exterior of the school when we shut them (after passing period) but students opened the doors for people who knocked on the doors. And during passing period anyone can enter the school if they pretend they’re a student. The principal and teachers tried to drill in our heads to never open the door for anyone, but the students still did.
The doors are not problem! It’s society that’s the problem! Come on!
OMG ! So even MORE people failed those kids and their teachers ? It just keeps getting worse
Our school classroom doors(it's a highschool In uk) can be locked once there shut. They open from the inside and lock from the inside but once u step outside and it shuts, u have to knock on to be let back in coz u can't open them from the outside unless ur a teacher with a pass, and students are not aloud to open the doors from the inside unless they get the permission from a teacher or a teacher asks them too.(idk if I have just said the same thing but worded it differently) also all windows that are able to be seen thru from like the school corridors also have them half way tinted. So, when ur sat at ur table with whoever u sit next to, u cannot see iut the window unless u stand up since the bottom half of the window is like tinted and they also have blinds on them too. We do have a very secure school-
I’ve been a teacher for many years, I’ve never encountered a door I could close from the inside, beside the faculty restroom.
Windows in doors are also common place, but important to see who you’re letting in. Doors that can be locked from the inside and windows further away from the handle could be a start. Then there’s funding…
I think The hole behind the push bar is how it locks from the inside. It has a special key… my church had similar doors in the downstair classrooms
that's the way ive always seen em work
Same it's a hole in the middle of the bar that's how you set them
There are two ways to lock and unlock a panic device, they actually work independently and will override each other. Dogging mechanism (aka the hole in the bar from inside) holds the bar down and leave door unlocked, outside trim (aka outside handle, grip, keyhole) will also unlock the door at any time, and depending what type of trim (store room or classroom) can leave the door unlocked all the time.
Good catch…it’s not even a special key just an Allen or hex key. The school set the door to unlock.
Well I see the locked story from the first didn't work SOOOO let's try this one...got it..
That is not the door he was seen coming in on on surveillance video. The door he came in had a big glass panel on the side and it was a different hallway too.
The schools I went to in New York City the doors would slam lock. There's a way of keeping those doors open but you have to push that big metal part in and use like an allen key to keep it open. I do remember some classroom doors with two-way key lock and also some classroom doors with deadbolts. These are from the schools I went to as a kid from New York City. Do you have to change all school door locks and make that little glass bulletproof.
Why tf would they have doors in a school that can only be locked from the outside
Exactly. For it to be locked someone would have to put themselves outside with an active shooter and what swallow the keys 😳
I work in a brand new school and my door can also only be locked from the outside. Insane.
@@homebrew332 EXACTLY THAT'S RIDICULOUS
cause they are lying. theirs a hole beside the push bar that locks the door.
@@stewblare2190 maybe… if you happen to carry the right sized Allen wrench with you, perhaps you could lock it from the inside. It takes a few moments, though.
An 18- year-old legally purchased AKs and was deranged enough to walk into an elementary school and begin shooting small children, in front of their classmates. The police did very little to save them. Yeah, THE PROBLEM IN OUR SOCIETY IS DOORS. THIS IS DISGUSTING. We should be ashamed.
The only reason he was able to purchase weapons is because a court neglected to update his status in federal registry after a conviction of violent crime. The problem is that our law enforcement is under qualified, corrupt, inept, and cowardly.
@@xeonespydonum4995 We have a variety of problems that I am not self-righteous enough to pretend I can list (though I have no doubt that the problems you propose are on that list), but I know that list doesn't include elementary school doors.
i don't disagree. but the doors are part of the problem, because if they locked this might not have happened to such a large degree.
although i do agree that assault weapons shouldn't be sold to civilians
@@adriarey They do lock, a teacher propped the door open. Also, assault weapons have been illegal for 99.9% of civilians since the NFA decades ago.
then why do people keep buying them??
I recall my school doors being the opposite. Someone inside always having to let you in bc they just auto lock on close. Remember having to hold the door always.
Where do you ever find doors that only lock from the outside?
It’s sad because- no one would really get prepared for a shooting in a school that’s unexpected and very, very sad
Industry standard Von Duprin 99 panic device, designed in the 70’s with a stellar track record, great piece of kit. Doors are a smoke screen for the real problem
This is what you get when you get committees, politicians and boards to design systems.
Looking at the images being shown, all the doors would have failed their first safety test.
Exterior push bar door locks are supposed to automatically lock when doors are sprung shut.
Interior/ classroom doors could have borrowed from the humble toilet door lock- They lock from the inside.
If and when glass/ viewing portals are fitted to doors they should not compromise the lock/ function of the door.
That said, it shouldn’t draw attention away from the incompetence and very serious failures of the school safety officer(s) and law enforcement response.
It is their failings and inactions on the scene that led to the high casualty numbers in the school. The buck stops with them.
Looking at the investigation hearings, it is apparent the department of safety is mixing up the issues, non issues and potential issues into one pot.
The investigation should into the school shooting should start from the moment the first shots we’re fired into the school- What happened?
Issues about playing video games, dead cats in a bag, gun trigger adapter, high capacity magazines gun laws etc are only clouding the investigation.
The police department should understand the schools in there area even maps and become fimilar with schools in Utah police department were training at local high school but sometimes when shooter shoots through door it can be unsafe to maybe touching the door would be hard to do if he's shooting through the door just a thought but did this class room have windows if so why didn't they shoot him down that way like a sniper. Training is very important.
Well said. Agreed.
@@juliaweber212 Yes training is very important but it is completely useless if lessons and employable skills and knowledge are not learned.
Training is being used in many cases as tickbox exercises to beef up employee records and for insurance purposes.
It’s not that simple. Put a barricade latch on an interior classroom? What happened when a student locks the teacher out and beats a kid to death while everyone watches though the window? There is a reason things are as they are. Panic devices are designed for fire escape, they can be set up to an auto lock, known as “store room function trim” but most opt to have the ability to unlock the door, this leaves staff responsible, not door hardware. I do agree with almost everything you said though, particularly with the smoke screen those responsible are throwing up, this door non-issue is just another one
@@mikeweatherford5312 It’s not that simple true, but when the simple is overlooked for the complicated then problems arise inevitably.
A door or lock that cannot be opened or locked clearly doesn’t fulfil it’s basic function. I give the example of the toilet door lock for its simplicity yet high effectiveness.
As for a kid locking a teacher out of a classroom to beat another kid to death, I don’t know how many such incidents are on record but surely that kind of kid would have no problem beating another child to death in an unlocked classroom, a bathroom or the playground and shouldn’t be in that kind of environment in the first place.
I fully agree with you that the door hardware cannot be seen to be responsible for the victims but rather the people involved.
The issue is or should be the determined active shooter on the school premises and what was not done/ could have been done to minimise casualties.
At my school some of the classrooms did have exit doors, but some did not. I agree with you on that part. ALL need to have those. Also some of the classrooms led to other rooms and classrooms which led to more emergency exits. The model of our school was kind of complicated. Our teachers had their own keys to the door so they could lock it. Every period when it was time to switch classes, our teachers would lock the door after the students enter or exit the classroom. What does not make sense to me is that in the main entrance where parents, students, or visitors come through, there is a buzzer and camera to see who comes to the door, and if they are allowed to be entered. What about the other entrances? ALL entrances need a key card or buzzer to let students in. Also anyone can act as a parent, student, or teacher. They need to be able to identify parents, from students to even the teachers such as identity access cards or etc so they do not let the wrong person inside.
Somehow I'm not surprised that Texas is blaming the school doors and not...you know...guns.
When I was in elementary school, there were NO doors on the classrooms. The front entrance was also NOT secured. You’d walk in and be able to walk to other areas of the building.
Thanks to bonds, when it was totally remodeled, they went in and put doors in on all the classrooms and moved the office up to the VERY front of the building.
I also remember during drills, when the teachers would have to step out into the hall and put their key in to lock the door. These doors should have seriously had the ability to lock from the inside.
My old school was like this too there was no absolutely NO locks on any doors EVEN THE ENTRANCE and the office was very far from the entrance there were also no security cameras and the building was only 1 story and it seemed pretty flat and its probably because my schools funding had barely ANY money
@@Ziolus_
You would walk in the front door and you would have about 100 feet between the front door and the office.
I don't understand why a door like this was ever designed at all. You would certainly never put a door like that on your house, why would you put it on a school. What is the logic behind it.
...maybe all the focus was on escaping a fire
Focus is always money. Probably less expensive.
There have been some tragic school fires in the past (in which many children died), and I think this door design was with that in mind - that is, easier access for firefighters to get in, in order to evacuate children & teachers from a room, or possibly to contain a fire to just one room (which was hopefully empty to begin with). To give an example, the Our Lady of Angels fire in Chicago, in which 90+ children and several teachers died. There were other problems with the particular school building(s) involved, mainly that there was no convenient way of escaping the school, and that the building wasn’t up to code standards/was quite a bit older. Please don’t assume a design is poor before learning why it was made that way in the first place - true, it may be for a somewhat “outdated” reason (although fires happen quite often, generally speaking, the design might not be with the most recent tragic incidents in mind, because I’m sure it takes several years to develop and adequately test a new door design, even BEFORE adopting it as the standard in a school), but still it is designed that way for a very valid reason. Arguably, an emergency situation that is more likely to occur.
I would also like to add this link. According to these regulations and guidelines, the teacher of a classroom must open the door, lock from outside, shut the door with him- or herself inside, in order for the door not to open from the point of view of anyone in the hallway. IF teachers do not generally keep these doors locked from the outside at all times (meaning anyone leaving to use the bathroom or get something from a locker would have to be let in, and couldn’t get back into the classroom on his or her own) then it is absolutely possible for anyone to enter the classroom. If schools, therefore, are too relaxed in this practice, and not always at the ready for such an unfortunate incident to occur, then here we have a major problem: it becomes dangerous to attempt to lock the previously unlocked door when it is known there is an active shooter situation, and takes extra time to do when really everyone should be hunkering down and also barricading the entry to a classroom - with desks, books, bookcases, chairs, anything. It is possible in this very sad case that the main teacher was attempting to lock the door from the outside before shutting it (which would have locked the entry to anyone coming from the hallway), and was unable to complete this task before the shooter was able to make his way into the joint classrooms. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED508013.pdf
@@Chuck44442 i cannot think of a single benefit that design provides during a fire.
The high school in my town has a front door that doesn't close when you let go of it. I mean it does, but it still stays open a little bit unless you manually open or close it.
Our school when I went every door was locked. You had to be let in by a teacher or another student. Anyone who was at the doors parents etc, we told a teacher about to go take a look. You couldn’t get into the school through any doors unless you slipped in between students. The offices had a check in buzzing system. You couldn’t open the doors. You had to be checked in, then buzzed in and visitors had to have a written note from the parent. Very secure school
Finally this is being talked about. When we used to have lockdown drills, our school will use the speaker for us to hide and lock our classroom doors but for some reason, my teacher always had to open the door and lock it from the outside and then close it, I always thought was that was very unsafe n dumb.
For me my class didn’t have an intercom that worked properly…or at all..so whenever we had lockdown drills someone would have to come to our class and tell us to hide 🫣 if it was a real school shooting we would be dead simply cuz we wouldn’t know
@@mhashifter1031 yeah I can tell, most schools were built with speakers but break bc of how old some schools are and that was often some of the classrooms too at my school, some didn’t work but the speaker was connect to the phone so when they will speak, the phone will go on speaker for everyone to listen.
My old schools were the same thing looking back on all it, it makes me think why couldn’t they remodeled the doors to be locked from the inside of the classrooms but I guess it could of cost lot of money for that
Think that guy wouldn't have gotten in if they shoved a chair in the door handle plenty of survival games have that as an option to get away (last of us when trying to save ellie)
Same teachers always did that for me too
Nothing compares with the cowardliness of the “cops”.
facts
You still have to look at the whole picture
You wouldnt have the balls to run in and take down the shooter would you?
@@soupdrinker Now you can. Look at the footage they’re fucking cowards and deserve to lose their jobs.
Every school system should have a citizen oversight committee that regularly meets, tests the security of the building, and publish the findings.
In my school we have at least every door that locks from the inside and around 30 classrooms (the front ones in the school) with doors that have a huge glass window on the door. So, if there was a situation like a shooting, there would be no where to hide in the front classrooms unless you stacked the chairs against the doors. (The front classrooms have two doors to each room)
The fact some people actually think a “locked door” would have prevented this lunatic from committing this, is insane.
This was a guy who literally just shot his own grandmother in the face, shot at innocent people who were trying to help him - when he crashed his grandfathers truck, made a statement that he was on his way to an elementary school to massacre children.
Do you honestly believe a locked door would have prevented this crazed gunman? He would have torn that door down.
Use. Your. Brain.
Exactly what was pointed out in the testimony, just smash the door glass and open the handle..
I’ll add that doors and door lock mechanism are actually quite durable to gunfire. The bullshit you see on tv of someone shooting a door lock and popping a door open easily is nonsensical. Shooting out a window and reaching in to disengage a panic device is more likely, but even that can be drastically slowed down with security glass aka “security lite kit” to actually shoot out a lock would require a ton of bullets and precise knowledge if were to shoot, spray and pray on a commercial metal door frame and panic device is not going to get it done.
The first door woulda slowed him down a bit....but if you look at the classroom doors...if they woulda locked from the inside.....(like common sense would tell us)...it would have saved even more time.
Usually rooms with those skinny windows have something to cover them up for lockdowns....and then the kids could hide in corners where he wouldnt be able to see them.
The door is not the problem here, the gun is. The longer we spend arguing about it, the more people are going to get killed. If this door was locked he would have just waited for people to come outside instead. Last I checked there are no doors outside.
@@inthebeginning4751 What kind of lock do you propose? Keep in mind the goals of the orginal "Classroom function lever" the industry standard for 40 years. #1 only the teacher can lock the door #2 class can be secured during school closure/after hours, #3 lock can be left unlocked for bathroom breaks and day to day practical application. With these goals in mind, show me a better lock that you can purchase off the shelf? Lock also must maintain free egress from the classroom, and be a single device on the door (no multiple locks) it should also meet ADA compliance... go ahead, i'll wait while you find something...
So now they’re blaming the doors?!?
I’ve actually said this to every teacher I’ve ever went on lockdown with “can’t they break the glass and get in anyways I don’t understand why they have windows right beside the doors
If you ever watch the entire surveillance footage. You will notice that the coward shoots the door before entering the classroom. My guess, a teacher was trying to hold the door closed.
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