When are we going to get serious about school security. I went to school in the early seventies where no one entered without passing through metal detectors and uniformed guards.
Wow! Times have changed. I went to school in the sixties where such devices would have been 100% unnecessary and a waste of money.
I went to high school in the seventies as well. Our buildings were on a major thoroughfare from Austin to Houston. Trucks in the student parking area adjacent to the highway were unlocked, windows down because of the heat and had gun racks with guns. We had not theft or shootings. Just a few black eyes from fist fights. A few.
For one, most students went to church on Sundays. We knew the Ten Commandments. Our teachers were Christians and we were taught to have respect for adults. Many teachers were Sunday School teachers as well. We also had a prayer in the morning over the loud speaker. If you didn’t participate, you stood there in silence...but the words filled the air!!
We had a tough county Sherriff and department as well as tough Superintendent and Principals.
THIS last sentence is what has changed. They want to be ‘friends’ with the youth. None of us wanted to visit the Superintendent’s office, seriously! Only a few did as things were taken care of in classrooms, not offices of the schools.
I see the breakdown of the family as the major reason for failures. Google the song, Dusty Bibles. There is the truth, IMO.
I am opposed to metal detectors at schools. Some people evidently need them at their homes!!!
> When are we going to get serious about school security.<
There was a Gun Free Zone sign. What more could we possibly need? /sarc
EC
I went to a high school where it was common to have a gun in your truck or car for hunting after school.
The only incident we ever had was a kid from a nearby public school popped open the door to our English Lit class with a knife in hand shouting some nonsense and was tackled a couple seconds later by a big farmboy who leaped over my desk to get to him first...followed by a pileup as the rest of the class helped immobilized the kid.
The problem isn’t the guns. Nor the knives. Not even security, though some security plan for each school, appropriate to the locality, is of course needed.
There has been a breakdown of the family and a complete disregard of common sense when handling troubled kids.
There is an absence of lessons in honor, integrity, humility, respect for authority, civility and such both at home and in public institutions.
I went to grade school in a ONE ROOM SCHOOL-—AM FOREVER GRATEFUL
Went to high school that served a 30 mile radius.
NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH SECURITY.
THE BIGGEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS WOULD TAKE STUPID GUYS OUT BEHIND THE FOOTBALL BLEACHERS AND GIVE THEM A SEPARATE EDUCATION-—STARTING VERBALLY & GOING TO PHYSICAL IF NEEDED