Schools need to be run like prisons. There is a certain percentage of violent psychos in prisons and in today’s schools. They need scores of guards and monitors and metal detectors to protect the students from themselves.
” They need scores of guards and monitors and metal detectors to protect the students from themselves.”
But what about fire alarms?
When mine were in HS false alarms were a problem for a time——that was 2500 kids pouring out of the building.
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> There is a certain percentage of violent psychos in prisons and in today’s schools. <
I taught for decades in a large urban school district. And I gotta say, there’s lots of truth in your comment there.
About 10 years ago my district actually tried to do something about it. An alternative school was set up. Only the most violent students were sent there. Class size was small, and individual counseling was provided. Security was tight, but not oppressive.
Well, parents of those kids hired lawyers. There were lawsuits all over the place. “How dare you send my son away from his neighborhood school!”
So yep, the whole project got cancelled.
But that has nothing to do with preventing school shootings.
The gangbangers at the old school had a lot of extracurricular activities, but peer pressure kept anything seriously violent off of the school grounds.
It just "wasn't done" in the school. And that peer pressure was more effective than the security staff. Of course it helped that transgressors were promptly and permanently expelled, if not jailed.