LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Okemos Public Colleges can be including new “entry vestibules” to enhance safety at six of its faculties.
Okemos Superintendent John Hood and Director of Security and Safety Katherine Diehl report that these safety enhancements can be added to Okemos Public Montessori, Bennett Woods Elementary, Cornell Elementary, Hiawatha Elementary, Okemos Excessive Faculty, and Edgewood Early Childhood Heart.
Moreover, the brand new Chippewa and Kinawa constructing can even implement these enhanced safety measures.
New customer administration protocols embody:
Identify and Cause: On the fundamental entrance, every customer will ring the video doorbell and be requested for his or her identify and purpose for visiting earlier than getting into the vestibule.
One after the other: Every customer should individually be verified via the video doorbell earlier than getting into the vestibule. After verification, we ask that guests not maintain the door open for anybody behind them. Every individual must be verified earlier than getting into.
Workplace check-in: Guests can be checked in via the primary workplace and could also be required to current picture identification. They have to sign up and procure a customer’s cross earlier than getting into the varsity.
Customer passes: All guests should put on and be recognized by a customer’s cross whereas within the constructing.
Workplace check-out: Earlier than leaving the constructing, guests should return the customer’s cross and take a look at with the workplace.
Merchandise drop-off: If a customer must drop off gadgets for a scholar (equivalent to lunch, homework, or a tool), they will label and deposit these gadgets on the faculty’s designated location. Guests is not going to must enter the constructing to drop off gadgets.
Scholar decide up: If a customer plans to choose up a scholar throughout the faculty day, please notify the varsity.
“Please know that the district works to maintain environments that allow students, staff, and visitors to feel welcomed, as well as secure, at our schools. Thank you for your support in keeping us safe,” mentioned Hood and Diehl in a information launch despatched to six Information.
