Schools to Get Phones to Beef Up Security
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Responding to complaints from teachers about increased violence on school campuses, the Burbank Board of Education voted Thursday night to spend more than $100,000 for emergency communication systems at the city’s two high schools and one elementary school.
The board voted unanimously to install nine emergency telephones at both Burbank and John Burroughs high schools and one at Bret Harte Elementary School.
Teachers at Burroughs also will be given wireless beepers that will trigger an alarm in the school’s administrative office, said Richard Tighe, assistant superintendent of business.
The board’s action came on the same day that a Burroughs student pleaded guilty in Pasadena Juvenile Court to assaulting a teacher at the school. The incident sparked a one-day strike by Burroughs teachers to protest the board’s decision not to expel the student.
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