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Visitors will have come program. according to an and logistical worries ~~ like stu- worst nightmare, but the breaking to report to the main entrance and education ministry spokesperson. dents coming in from portables to s the Waterloo Region point was when a man who be buzzed into the building by a and approximately 3.100 elemen- use the washroom ~â€" have been District School Board prey robbedalocal drug store hid iii the school staff member using an tary schools in Ontario have easily solved by implementing a pares to introduce [ticked school's boys washroom before intercom and camera system. received funding since 2005. buddy system and by proViding doors, cameras and intercom fleeing on foot. Police later appre- “in most cases most of our Secondary schools are not eligt students with access cards. bullets at the front doors of ele- hended the suspect. school doors are already locked ble for funding. “You don't want your school to mentary schools across the region. ‘We'relookingat this and think- with the exception of the front Participation in the Safe Weir he like armed camps. you want one parents says it's about time. ing 'when are we going to lock the door,” said Shantz. “For most come program is not mandatory, them to be welcoming and safe so Tom Schell. who spent nearly a doors?" Schell said. One of their schools, the only new feature is but schools must have at least two this is an added level of security," decade as chair of the school recommendations was to start you'll be buzn'ngin.’ lock down drills per year and a said Shewchuk. adding one of the council at Mnston Churchill Pub [ticking the doors. but he said he l’he push to lock doors dates local policeschool board safety biggest threats to student safety lic School, knows how vulnerable never heard back from the board hack to December 2012 when protocol. Schools that receive isn't the unknown intruder some schools can be His son and following a successful pilot theanremier Dalton McGuinty funding through Safe Welcome parents mayheaftaid of. daughter both attended Winston program at (Ihalmcrs Publit announced he would re-open the must agree to lock the front “One of the big issues we face (Ihurchill and Schell says the area School in Cambridge that began 2005 Safe School program in an entrance and other exterior doors. unfortunately is parents who aren't IS known for cnme on January l3. the program will be effort to get elementary schools in Shantz said the WRl)SB supposed to have access to their “l'rn happy it's being done. but rolled out to the remaining Hi] the province to lock their doors received approximately $3lfl.000 children trying to come to school," - it's gust half a decade too late.” he schools in the board by September and offerwl $l0 million in funding. from the province and matched tt Shewchtik said ‘So it's helpful to said of the plan to have every “it's been a very successful 'lhe announcement came six wttlt $100000 ofitsown funding see who is at the front door 'lhere school lock its doors by next hep intplemt-ntation." said firaham days after a shooting in Newton, [he Waterloo (atholic Distritt are fat meI' of those situations tt-rnber. "I think it's way overdue” Sham], the assistant superintt-nd (.onn . where 20 children and six School Board started making the than I think people actually realize, Schell still has the black binder cm of human resource services at adults were killed after a gunman switch lo locked doors in 2005 which is sad anti unfortunate " he presented to trustees about five the WRl)SH. of the pilot protect forced his way into Sandy Hook lohn Shewchuk. chief managing The Waterloo Region Police years ago when. along with other "Hie community has been very elementary school. officer of the (atholic board, said Servtce. which works closely Wllh parents at Winston Churchill. he act opting of the new process, [he 2005 Safe Welcome pro by the time M('(rlllllly made his administrators and staff at the ptit together a delegation on they've apprectated the height grant was intended to help schools announcement in 20!: the board region's schools to keep students school safety [he binder is more cited security measures to protect where the main office did not have only had six schools otit of 45 left safe, endorses the policy than an inch think and includes a students anti staff. and in all a clear View of the front door, and to upgrade "Things have changed We t or lot of about a dam incidents that regards we would ((tnSltlf‘f the 849 of the provmcc's 4,000 cit-men Shewchuk said lot kt-d doors an- tatnly didn't lock the doors when l occurred within him blocks of the pilot asuccess ' tary \( hools received funding to a new reality at schools and the went to elementary school,‘ said school overt! two~yearspan Under the new locked door pol install door burn-rs and cameras policy has not had a negative lee Fitzpatrick. 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