What do parents think about school security? Results from a national survey.

There are some basic questions about school safety that I would like to know the answers to:

• How many times does a school go on lockdown?

• Is there a police officer on campus each day?

• How often are kids carrying guns to school?

• What types of security equipment are being used?

• How safe do kids feel at school?

As simple as these questions seem, this information is not available. These seem like the type of questions for an academic research article, but I’m disillusioned by the peer-review process for projects like this. I took the time to get Institutional Review Board approval for a survey of school police officers in 2020...

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