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This 4 page paper uses Clarke's Mission Improbable to examine the problems in school security. Various issues are examined.
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After all, if a nuclear bomb was dropped from the sky, is retreating under a desk really helpful? It is true that jokes have been made, and that it seemed
as if Russia were a serious threat during the cold war, but since that time, little has changed. There are few universal protocols and school administrators have been scrambling since
9/11 to come up with a viable plan of action. Yet, it seems that when all is said and done, the image of schools being inept is true. Lee
Clarke (2001) claims that many government agencies have policies to guard against nuclear attack but they are really not helpful at all. They only serve to control the people and
do not provide true useful measures that would be significant in a time of crisis (Clarke, 2001). Some might argue that school security has been beefed up since 9/11, and
this is true to an extent, but by and large, the measures taken at most districts provide very little in terms of security. For example, many schools prompt individuals who
enter the building to sign their name on a sheet. The volunteer does not check identification nor is there anyone sitting there after hours when other activities occur on school
grounds. In a nutshell, anyone can just walk in to virtually any school, getting past security with little attention. Of course, if the volunteer sitting where the sign in sheet
is used becomes suspicious, he or she might alert police. Still, if someone wanted to infiltrate the schools, looking and acting like a parent, it would be very easy to
do. Clarke (2001) points out that schools are quite disorganized and uses an anecdote where a Long Island school was evacuated. Parents were told that their children were taken
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