Educators nationwide are asking, if a shooter were to come for our children would our school buildings be able to stop them? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote about that, looking at local schools.
Clayton architect Art Bond, whose firm, Bond Architects Inc., designed Maplewood Richmond Heights new Early Childhood Center, told the Post-Dispatch, “I can’t tell you how many schools I just walked in the door.”
Features such as: classroom and office doors that automatically lock during a lockdown, first-floor windows with bulletproof glass, surveillance cameras and fences around the property, and bus drop-off lanes clearly separate from parent drop-off lanes can help protect students.
Bond has incorporated those kinds of designs in schools such as newly renovated Maplewood-Richmond Heights Early Childhood Center, according to the Post-Dispatch.