Since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, students all over America have been speaking out on how safe they feel in their own schools. West Delaware students feel the administrators are doing their best to keep the students safe, but they believe there could be improvements.

Junior Ally Martin said, “I appreciate all the hard work the school is doing because they are trying to keep students safe by keeping the doors to the outside locked all day and setting rules on when people can leave the school.”

Senior Jil Patel, originally from France, feels safe due to the cameras throughout the school and due to the need for visitors to buzz in through the front door.

Most students believe the school is limited in what they can and can’t do.

“There is only so much that can be done,” Reagan Dolan (10) said. “I don’t think there is much more we can do.”

Some students have additional ideas on what could make school even safer.

Jacob Georgen (10) suggests that an alarm should go off when a door to the outside is propped open so students can’t sneak people into the building.

Junior Laia López Rigol feels that the school should be more strict on who they let though the front doors and thinks that metal detectors may help.

Most students don’t realize the process that the secretaries go through before unlocking the doors to let someone in.

Secretary Erin Gudenkauf said, “We don’t usually question students too much unless they are carrying something out of the ordinary. When non-students try to enter, we ask them who they are here to see, what they need, what are they carrying, and a couple more questions.”

“We have chosen to not allow people in. One time an adult looked questionable, so we sent someone out to meet them instead of letting them in,” Gudenkauf said.