Security, there’s nothing like it!

Via Radley via Glenn:

COURTLAND[, VA]—A Southampton Middle School student was suspended Thursday for opening an exterior door for a visitor.

“Students are not allowed to open the doors, and if anyone does, they will be suspended,” said Dr. Wayne K. Smith, executive director of administration and personnel.

A districtwide policy prohibiting students and staff from opening doors to the outside was recently adopted after a $10,800 security system was installed...

All of the schools’ doors are locked during the day. Visitors must ring a buzzer and look into a camera before office personnel can let them in. - Tidewater News, February 26, 2011

Any school district that employs a doctorate-level “executive director of administration and personnel” is most likely way overstaffed and needs to have its budget cut immediately.

(Oh, and I’d love to have their “security” contract.  In 2008, Southampton Schools spent almost $85,000 for security cameras.)

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