You Think YOUR church’s security is tight, check out the latest school security!

USA Today reports that schools have gone high tech in providing columbine-avoiding, pedophile-eliminating school security. It’s reported here http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-10-09-school-security_x.htm and just check out the first few lines:

Each morning, the 16,000 students in the Spring Independent School District in suburban Houston swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building.

Nearly 1,000 cameras watch them all day. Every visitor — parents, volunteers, the guy who fills the Coke machine — must surrender his or her driver’s license to a secretary who checks it against a national database of sex offenders. This fall, nearly one in three schools literally trap visitors inside a “secure vestibule,” a bulletproof glass room, until they’re checked out.

Welcome to the brave new world of school security.