Posted on 09/05/2018 10:42:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Santa Fe school board President Steven Carrillo made an unsuccessful final attempt to win approval for the idea of hiring armed officers for the district’s two high schools this school year.
During Tuesday’s board meeting, he couldn’t even sway the other four members to support the idea of holding a special study session to discuss the issue, let alone get them to agree to commit to hiring such guards, commonly known as school resource officers or SROs, with the goal of better protecting students against shooters on campus.
“I’m not ready to entertain SROs,” board member Maureen Cashmon told Carrillo. She reiterated previous concerns that it’s unfair to students at middle and elementary schools to not have those officers on hand while the two high schools use them.
Board member Kate Noble agreed with Cashmon, saying she didn’t think the community would go for the idea either. “It’s probably a nonstarter,” she said.
While board member Rudy Garcia said he had “split” emotions over the idea, he agreed with Cashmon and Noble that there was little use in holding a study session because the board had already approved this year’s budget and money for those officers — at least $200,000 for just three of them — would be hard to find.
Though board member Lorraine Price did not expressly object to the idea, she did not back Carrillo’s plan either. When he told the board that a school resource officer in Maryland had killed a suspect who used a handgun to shoot two students in a high school in March, she said, “We also had an SRO who hid.”
She was referring to an armed school resource officer who hid outside a Parkland, Fla., high school during a shooting incident in which 17 people were killed in February.
Despite recent school shootings around the nation, including one in Aztec, N.M., that took the lives of two students, the Santa Fe school board has not displayed a collective appetite for placing armed guards on campuses.
Several board members said they would rather invest money in counselors who could help students with mental or behavioral health problems and thus may want to act out in a physical manner.
And Cashmon told Carrillo that since the city of Santa Fe is having trouble hiring enough police officers — the department reported 26 vacancies in late August — it would be a challenge for the district to find even an additional three.
Lunatics are in charge of the asylum.................
Heh, even school districts in NYS have armed school security.
Sadly, Albuquirkee and Santa Fe control the entire state. Which does contain a lot of conservatives/every day folks. Right CedarDave?
Okay then when/if/hopefully not something happens when a good guy with a gun could have stopped a bad guy if only he had been armed; this should open the board to lawsuits and the school as well.
The purposefully decided to leave the school/students/staff defenseless.
Meanwhile the Saudis are investing in jihadis to attack and kill kids at New Mexico schools.
Hate to suggest it, but there’s probably a dozen kids in each school already packing a weapon, or it’s in their car parked out front.
Do any of the dissenting members have kids in schools? If not , they should recuse.. or resign.
Like Chicago controls ALL OF Illinois.................
Translation:
Let the crazies kill our kids - I don't care...
There used to be plenty in gun racks in trucks when I was in HS in Abq in the mid 60’s. Never a problem then.
Isn’t that where the Muslim school shooter training camp was?
I bet these same idiots that do not want trained armed folks protecting their kids have no problem with trained armed folks protecting their money or their hollyweird actor heros.
This in the state that had a terrorists training camp for school shooters. Arrgh.
Makes no sense to block something that has worked well in Israel for more than 40 years. Don’t protect the children. Insist that your way is right.
If conservatives aren’t willing to show up a thousand strong at the schoolboard meeting to protect their children, then they can go to hades and suffer the consequences.
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