look at the locations of the college and of the company making the whiteboards, this is more a story of local graft than anything else.
The bulletproof whiteboards may be good products, though it would look less suspicious if there were more customers than the nearest college with some extra money in their budget. In an active shooting situation, they’d certainly be better than nothing to use as a barrier to allow a classroom to break contact with an advancing shooter. Hardening defenses is usually also cheaper in the long term than hiring security personnel, and if society isn’t interested in institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill, making your target less appealing isn’t a bad tactic.
Yes, we shouldn’t laugh at efforts to provide defense. Rather than always glibly stating everyone should be carrying and all would be OK.
We also need to understand the subject here is duel-usage. Not adding totally different equipment.
My biggest problem here is no-one notices these are SMALL boards! I have no idea why an educational system is providing small boards. Seems a waste to me. You need big suckers - how is even a small class going to see it?
If they used a big board, makes more sense defensively, but then how do you utilize it? How would you get such down? Once in place, it would be nice, like being in the trenches.
The small board thing makes me nuts - what is the point of a small chalkboard?