Call to regulate entry of visitors to schools

Education Minister Azzam Al-Dakhil has directed all the education departments across the Kingdom to appoint a guard at each school for boys and girls in order to regulate the entrance of parents or visitors.

He stressed the need to document the data and information of each visitor, including the entry and exit time, to prevent them from roaming around or entering classrooms for educational or other purposes, local media reported on Thursday.
Visitors, including parents, are only allowed to meet the school principal or his deputy, or the student’s guide or teacher the school administrator’s office, and not in the classroom, he said.

The minister stressed the zero tolerance policy toward any visitor intending to enter schools and said that guards should document and check all information concerning the visitors.
“Parents leave their children in our custody, entrusting us with their safety and wellbeing. We should take up this mission with diligence in order to safeguard their safety and to protect the parent’s peace of mind,” said the minister. 

The Ministry of Education recently approved new incentives for employees who will assume the tasks of documenting visitors’ data and information. Such a task should be taken by one of the school faculty members, such as clerk, supervisor or administrative assistant. 
Majed Al-Harbi, director of security and safety department at the Ministry of Education, said that the ministry will implement a program to provide 33,000 security and safety personnel from some of the ministry’s departments and divisions, by giving incentives of about 15 percent of the original salary to them.