- 28 May 2022 23:21
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Fences have low maintenance costs though.
As for the costs, did you calculate the cost for all the schools in the district? Care to elaborate further on what's the linear length of the required fencing and how did you arrive to it? The higher estimate is clearly an upper end cost, for 10 schools that are far larger than any school in the Uvalde Consolidated School District.
No one said fences are infallible. Obviously not shutting the gate will allow a shooter in, but that doesn't mean fences would be useless. Just lock them if there's no reason to keep them open
And expert opinion agrees with me here, not you.
Pants-of-dog wrote:@wat0n
Please note that one of the case studies showed that a security fence was easily bypassed because a gate was left unstaffed.
And this ignores times when shooters shot through windows to unlock doors. Moreover, lock systems that are remotely controlled can be quite expensive while ones that are not are often eft unlocked leaving students and staff vulnerable.
Also note that your estimate is only slightly higher than mine. I took my fence length from satellite photos of the school.
And yes you are missing many things. One thing is grading, which is the slopes of the land and resulting water runoff, which needs to be accounted for. You and I are currently assuming a perfectly level and perfectly drained land that requires no intervention, which is an unreasonable assumption.
And again, maintenance costs.
And again, soft costs.
Fences have low maintenance costs though.
As for the costs, did you calculate the cost for all the schools in the district? Care to elaborate further on what's the linear length of the required fencing and how did you arrive to it? The higher estimate is clearly an upper end cost, for 10 schools that are far larger than any school in the Uvalde Consolidated School District.
No one said fences are infallible. Obviously not shutting the gate will allow a shooter in, but that doesn't mean fences would be useless. Just lock them if there's no reason to keep them open
And expert opinion agrees with me here, not you.