Middle school student suspended for opening door

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Originally Posted by defector

Schools lock all the doors nowadays? Is this pretty standard?
My kid's school has security at all entrances, but to my knowledge the doors aren't locked.

The doors are only locked so they can't be opened from outside. Someone inside can still open them though. School designers worry about having enough exits in case of a fire so they put doors all over the place. The school administrators worry about having a ton of unmonitored doors all over the place allowing people to come and go as they please so they lock the doors to entry. I still remember a few of the more "problematic" doors when I was in school being chained shut.

I don't see the big deal about this. It doesn't sound like the school made any secret of this rule. The kid, even though he apparently had noble intentions, broke the rule and received the specified punishment. I doubt a (justified) one day suspension in middle school will keep this A student out of the Ivy League. I just hope the woman he let in was also informed of the result of her decision to not follow the policy.