As of right now, we use an ineffective and inconvenient system to access the back doors of school for students. We need a better method for using the school’s back doors that is secure but efficient.
Maybe this doesn’t affect you. Perhaps you park close to the front doors and never have to worry about the doors being locked. However, since adding the new parking lot in the back of the school, the majority of students would prefer to be able to access the doors on the back of the school when they come into school for the day. Using key cards to access the non main doors of the school is a secure, efficient, and effective way to allow students to enter the school based on where they park, and is quickly canceled for safety reasons.
Security is generally the main concern about using doors other than the ones in the office but with key cards, they can’t be copied, so people can’t use another person’s, or a stranger couldn’t take it and copy it. Student entry is easily tracked, which allows the administrators to know who is coming and going, which was the whole point of only having one door unlocked anyway. It prevents unwanted visitors because students won’t leave rocks and stuff to hold doors open now that they can easily open them when they need to, and stops random people from being able to walk into the school when students leave the doors open for their friends.
Efficiency is the key here. The key cards can have multiple uses: you can use them in vending machines, for lunch, to keep track of how much money a student has in their account, as a library card, or identification, and it could be used as an activity pass. Students who wish to have one would pay the amount they would for an activity pass and they have a special key card that shows they have paid for an activity pass.
The cards can be canceled easily if a student loses theirs. The office can shut the card off to prevent a stranger from using it to enter the school and cancellation could also be used as a punishment if students use the card inappropriately.
Lastly, and the biggest plus, especially for students, is the convenience of using a key card. It allows students who don’t have a first hour or free hours to enter through doors closer to where they park, prevents people from sneaking in, and makes it easier to track administrators. Also, Mrs. Timm won’t have to constantly push the button to open the door for people who don’t even need to check in.
Granted, it would be just as easy to continue with the system we already have, but day after day, you hear students complain about not being able to walk in where they are parked, or students opening the back door anyways, and the countless distractions the office secretaries go through with students that don’t have to check in, they’re just showing up because they don’t have a class until then.
Currently, students, especially upperclassmen, who park by the back doors and don’t have a first hour or have free periods have to walk extra far to the one open door on all of campus. They don’t have to check in because they don’t need a pass, wasting the students’ time. Additionally, it is a waste of the office workers’ time because it creates an unnecessary interruption in their work. Using key cards to securely access all doors on campus for students is an effective and convenient way to efficiently keep track of students’ comings and goings without making them go out of their way needlessly.
