Franklin Area Implementing ID Check System to Enter Schools; District Offices on the Move

| August 13, 2018

FRANKLIN, Pa. (EYT) – Visitors to Franklin Area District Schools will now need to show an ID and have it scanned in order to enter the buildings.

“We are getting the Raptor System,” said Franklin Area superintendent Pamela Dye. “It allows us to instantly scan an ID.”

If someone who wants to enter the building doesn’t have an ID, they aren’t going to be allowed to enter.

Along with the Raptor System, the district has updated all the security cameras at the elementary schools.

“We got new cameras and new wires running to the cameras,” Dye said.

Some exterior doors at the high school are also getting replaced, according to Dye, and the administrative offices are moving to the high school.

“We are renovating a wing at the Junior/Senior High School to accommodate the administrative offices,” Dye said. “That should be ready at the end of September.”

According to Dye, the administrative offices will be in the wing next to the auditorium.

“We will have a dedicated entrance,” Dye said. “It will be where you entered for the gymnasium and auditorium. I am very excited about it. It is going to allow me to be around the students again. That is why I got into this profession, to help the students.”

The district has also replaced all the lights in the junior/senior high school with more efficient lighting.

“We did that in the parking lot and inside the actual school,” Dye said.


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