In the wake of the latest mass shootings, a Crown Heights girls school is the first school in NYC to install metal security doors aimed at protecting kids from active shooters, The NY Post reported.
The first door of 90 planned for the Bnos Menachem school was installed last week by Remo Security Doors, a company that manufactures them in Israel, they reported.
The 150-pound classroom doors, made of galvanized steel, are fortified inside by metal bars, the company says. The doors can be locked from the inside with a thumb turn, and no electricity is required. Each has a bullet-resistant window.
Company president Omer Barnes said a bullet may penetrate the door, but a shooter could not get in.
“No weapon will open the door,” he said.
Turning classrooms into “safe rooms” will not only keep kids safe from shooters, but ease the mental trauma in emergencies and lockdowns, which have become a common precaution.
The doors cost $2,500 each, purchased through a $150,000 state Homeland Security grant the school received as a religious institution.
Every single major mosad especially schools should follow suite. Yashaar koach to the administrators for forward thinking!
This is an ideal answer to the need to keep everyone safe while avoiding the traumatic experience of locking down the entire building and assuaging the fears of parents whose children are inside.
Well done!
Now the other schools should do it like bais rivkah and oholie Torah….
All schools should do it to keep their kids and people that work at the schools safe
I hope all schools do this
All the schools should improve their facilities with up-to-date security features. It is about time. It takes one person with a weapon R”L….