Bulletproof school rooms launched at Alabama highschool

An Alabama college has launched a bulletproof classroom to raised defend faculty college students and lecturers inside the case of an full of life shooter emergency.

Cullman City Schools’ West Elementary in Alabama has put in Rapid-Deploy Safe Room Systems in two of its school rooms in response to Unilad.

KT Security Solutions bought right here up with the design in response to the deadly mass capturing at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last yr. Nineteen faculty college students and two lecturers died, whereas seventeen others had been injured.

The design incorporates a fold-out room that extends from a whiteboard that features bulletproof partitions. One door is locked from the inside and solely unlocked with a key.

The safe room could also be pulled out and assembled inside 10 seconds.

After growing with the design, founder and CEO of KT Security Solutions Kevin Thomas proposed the system to Kyle Kallhoff – superintendent (an administrator or supervisor accountable for various public faculties) of Cullman City Schools.

Mr. Kallhoff instructed WBRC: “In the unimaginable thought or action of a shooter, this is a safe place for the students or the teacher to get in.”

Mr. Thomas well-known: “Our purpose proper right here is to supply every little one an opportunity to go residence inside the night time. What we’ve is a method to avoid wasting kids. I don’t must be proper right here, it’s crazy, nonetheless any particular person’s gotta do it. They requested, I heard the mom and father on that board over proper right here, these 19 from Uvalde and the spouses of the lecturers, said don’t let this go wherever, make it rely and that’s what we’re doing.

“I can’t control policies, I don’t control gun control, I don’t control mental illness, I don’t control any of that. I’m not a policymaker…what we do have control over is the ability to make things that are innovative in the meantime, while we fix the bigger issues, we are going to do the here and now.”

Reaction on social media to the innovation has been divided.

One particular person wrote “Just. Ban. The. F–king. Guns.” whereas one different said she “despaired”.

“How on Earth this is the best option America has … those poor kids growing up with this being ‘normal’. The greatest country in the world,” she wrote.

Another social media shopper was equally dismissive: “If this is what I had to send my son to every day I’d just homeschool. How can the US think this is a good solution.”