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Originally Posted by Spikearoni
The high school where I served as vice principal had three buildings on one campus to which students would traverse for various classes throughout the day. Each multi-floored building had several entry/exit points with eight class periods daily. During lunch breaks, students were allowed to leave the cafeteria and go out to the central courtyard which eased the crowding in the lunchroom and decreased the occurrence of problematic behavioral issues. I'm pretty sure that other schools have a similar setup making your proposal quite difficult to enact.
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Many high schools are configured as you describe. The long term answer will probably be to design future schools as monolithic structures that are more adaptable to high security measures; perhaps with a central open courtyard surrounded completely by the classroom and administration building.
The short term answer may be fencing off the entire school campus with alarm-sensitive wiring, closed circuit television monitors, and security patrols. Entire airfields, encompassing hundreds of acres are similarly protected.