When a high school actually wears out lock mechanisms while trying to keep its students safe, it’s definitely time for a cloud-based wireless upgrade.
When a high school actually wears out lock mechanisms while trying to keep its students safe, it’s definitely time for a cloud-based wireless upgrade.
8 PagesTo protect Corning (Arkansas) High School students from intruders, all classroom doors were kept locked and the teachers opened and relocked them as needed. Principal Jennifer Woolard says, “You would be surprised how many times a key was used in each door throughout the day. It was unbelievable.” The lock mechanisms were literally worked to death. Corning School District is rural and has a small budget. According to Superintendent Kellee Smith, “We’re losing industry like a lot of rural communities and so are experiencing declining enrollment. We have about 860 children districtwide, not counting preschool. There are about 420 in the high school, grades seven to twelve.” Smith states that having to manually lock and unlock the doors also made effective lockdown plans problematic, a
