Toronto high schools may be due to start locking their doors more often, the way elementary schools already do, according to a new report inspired by the stabbing death of a student last September.
Hamid Aminzada, 19, was killed when trying to break up a fight between two other students at North Albion Collegiate Institute in Rexdale. After asking for a report into school safety, the Toronto District School Board heard Wednesday that it should consider tightening the controls on secondary school visitors, and should research new electronic locking systems that would allow faster school-wide lockdowns.
The report was presented to a TDSB committee and will go before the full board next week.
At Toronto elementary schools, all doors are generally locked after the start of the school day. Visitors can ask to be admitted through a buzzer at one main door, which has a camera trained on it so school staff can watch from inside.
At high schools, the doors are left unlocked all day. (more...)
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