RALEIGH COUNTY -
Early in 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School installed a security system requiring visitors to be visibly identified and buzzed in. School doors were also locked at 9:30 a.m. Authorities say gunman Adam Lanza used an assault weapon to shoot an entrance into the building.
In Raleigh and the surrounding counties, a law enforcement officer is present at High Schools, during school hours.
So just how safe are your kids in school? 59 News asked parents to find out.
"I think our kids are very safe, they do have a lock down policy now in the mornings, the doors automatically lock at 8:40 in the elementary. You have to ring to be let into the office and show your ID and then they give you a visitors pass. And they do have drills as well in the school, even prior to the event," said Angela Richmond of Shady Spring.
Richmond suggested other safety precautions she'd like to see in place.
"Maybe the use of metal detectors at some point. I know that sounds kind of extreme, but whenever my daughter gets to high school, which will be 12 years from now, with the rate things are going, it's going to be a very different world."
Some believe times have changed. One parent explains that safety was quite different when he was younger.
"It's a big difference, in the 70s and 80s you could catch a ride going down the street and not worry about anybody doing anything bad to you. What a big difference 30 years makes," said Beckley native Forrest Williams.
One woman believes religion is key to our kids safety.
"If they put God back in schools. No one in this land will feel safe until they put God back and everybody has some morals. No body has morals, they do what they want whether it's right or wrong. So they need to put God back in the schools," said Mount Hope's Betty Lilly.
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