OUR SECOND HOME

ROSALIA G. MAMOLO

Schools are what we call second home. We have our second family there, school teachers, school staff, principal and officials are the students’guardian. Parents and Grandparents, send the children to school to learn. Well, of course they will choose the school who can educate and protect their children. Well just by safely seeing the child enters the school, the parents and grandparents would no longer worry. As they completely entrust their children to the so called second home. This is where the duty and responsibility of the teachers and school staffs kicks in.

Humans have limitations, they can only see with their human eye. Let us relate this with the teachers and school staffs, they can only secure and protect the children when they are only physically present. Technological advances have come to the rescue; security cameras, recorders, monitors have already been introduced and have proven its worth. Schools have started to have their campus smarter and more secured through the installations of the security cameras all around the vicinity. With the help of the advance soft wares wherein they can recognize the face of the students, know the exact location, hear what they say, see what and where they are going. With this, bullies and gang fights will also be prevented. Not to mention, teachers and school staffs can review any event that happened in the school shall there be any issues and investigations that needs to be resolved.

Through the years this technology has been developed and innovated. New technology and new soft wares are being installed in the school as improvements. These new improvements will make their campuses more smarter, more secure, and more advance.

Nowadays, exclusive schools are the guinea pigs of the smarter technology. They have better cameras, better software and with a much more improved technology. Here, there are applications that are installed to the cameras and ID system whereas it notifies the parents, grandparents, or guardian of the student when the student arrives/leaves or enters/exits the school premises. From that point, this makes/ the parents, grandparents, or guardian of the student be more secure and worry free. This technology is fit for the parents, grandparents, or guardian of the student who have drivers/ yaya bring the children to the school. Parents, grandparents, or guardian of the student who have the children join carpools and school buses will enjoy this technology advancement as well.

With this smart technologies being installed, parents, grandparents, or guardian of the student will trust the school on how they make security an important factor to ensure the safety of the students. Schools are becoming more valuable, so a lot will entrusts their kids to go to school and not to worry about security. They will just have to value the education and trust the teachers and school staff that they will take care of their students and educate them well. They are well the second guardian of the students, so they will protect them and keep them away from any harmful elements. Students are safe in schools.

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The author is Teacher III at Sampaloc Elementary School Sampaloc, Apalit, Pampanga