[meyer]

Actually they had guards to go with their no piggybacking. Very paranoid. Of course who knows what kind of data they had from customers in this building. I’ve been lucky enough to always work for companies that were too lazy to really worry, I’d hate to deal with the hassles of that kind of stuff.

I'm not extremely fond of the hassles myself, but they're not so great that I'd even think of leaving my job. As another poster pointed out, it's the employer's choice to set up security as they see fit. It's the employee's choice as to whether to work there or not.

Now, as for the school in the original post, I see things a little differently. Back in the day, when I was in high school, they were experimenting with the "open campus" setup in high school. I admit that I often took advantage of the freedom afforded by that policy. :-)

I don't agree with the "punishment" that this student is enduring (although I would certainly have taken advantage of the free day off myself), and I don't agree that a taxpayer-funded entity like this should be operated with such a heavy hand. It's a school, not Fort Knox. Wouldn't it be great if they'd use the same level of security on the Mexican border?

[discostu]

Yeah I enjoyed our open campus in high school, of course we were right across the street girls dorm for the university, and lots of other fun university related stuff (two GREAT record stores that got most of my money).

I’d want to know about the neighborhood the school is in before passing judgment one way or the other. Could be a high crime neighborhood and this security could be saving them tons in lost property. Could be they’re just being idiots.