I’ve said for many years that, thanks to the internet, online home school curriculum and sites like MIT and Khanacademy.com, public schools have become a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century.
The problem is that it is an important form of day care for parents that have to both work to support their life style nowadays. Return to the single income family and two parent families and public schools are fairly pointless, other than for the occasional turkey shoot - and brainwashing the next generation that does survive.
I’ve been turning this around on dumbocrats...
We protect BANKS more than we protect SCHOOLS.
Why isn’t government ALREADY protecting our schools?
It would cost considerably less and would avoid having to take guns away from millions of people who didn’t do anything wrong, while the criminals would STILL have them - and STILL be able to go to schools and kill(now unafraid of any guns.)
Putting home-schooling aside for the moment, decentralizing schools would be way too inefficient, and too expensive.
The only solution is to strategically place armed guards in the schools. And search bags, etc. at the doorway.
I don’t see why liberals get so worked up about that idea. Airports do it. My county courthouse does it.
FUHGETAHBOUTIT
You need cameras in the halls and a monitor and a loud speaker system. Such an easy partial fix. Put a buzzer in each classroom to goes directly to the monitor....who can give immediate instructions.
Another thought....access via some kind of card or fingerprint or whatever system. Everyone else has to be monitored before entry.
It's about denying someone access....as far as the internal school shootings.
But then there's the Congressman who was shot at a baseball practice.
We homeschool.
And I assure you that if anyone tries to hurt our children then they will end up being fed to our hogs.
Period.
No amount of decentralization (whatever that means), no amount of home schooling, no amount of gun grabbing, no amount of ANYTHING will solve the problems of school shootings until we as a nation return to our senses.
What exactly do I mean “return to our senses”? I leave that interpretation up to you.
As for me, I’d be happy with another Great Awakening occurring in America.
Arm and train teacher coach volunteers.So easy. Why is this not being talked about? Force this option in your school district. It is heavily adopted all over the Midwest and south. The cost is nothing. In Texas the Teacher provides the weapon of choice, is provided free range time and training from local PD and Sheriff. What is there to lose?
Black children are murdered in the Chicago streets with little fanfare from the MSM. They run the gauntlet in school, on the way to school, and after school everyday. There is no “fix” for this, but the only thing that penetrates the mind of a killer is the possibility of return fire and actual return fire. Return fire, regardless of its actual efficacy, forces the perp to pay attention to something other than his plan. These precious moments allow the first responders to arrive with fewer deaths and injuries to deal with.
ARM AT LEAST ONE TEACHER IN EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA, AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS THE NEW PARADIGM.
If the schools are not going or cannot provide protection for the students, then they need to go.
No way would I send my child off to be a fish in a barrel for some disaffected loser.
Roger that:
Focus on the problem:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pass-protect-our-schoolchildren-act
Violence against schools can be reduced by hardening the targets. Using a combination of armed security, physical barriers and allowing teachers to conceal carry will make schools a hard target for armed terrorists.
The existence of security alone will act as a deterrent.
Think outside the box: using undercover random ‘school marshals’ like air marshals for schools would add to deterrent effect.
In the 70s, several Israeli schools were attacked, most notably, Ma’alot. After the expected military response, schools were individually defended by family members. These “uncle Moshe” and “grandma Ruth” types coordinated among themselves to schedule watches over students. These family members were armed, and at that time, it would be hard to swing a dead chatul (cat) without hitting a pensioner who was blooded in combat.
The next attacks on schools failed because people were willing to defend their children.
If not for these chelev ruim (sheep dogs), attacks might have increased.
If they are worth loving and protecting, they are worth using force to do so. One can get “Left of Bang” with observation, planning, and knowledge, but if bang happens, rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
.02 YMMV
KYPD
There are a lot of “disabled” former law enforcement officers in their 50s.
Congress has the power to raise “armies” as necessary.
There is always the possibility of putting National Guard militia persons on school duty.
I suggest metal doors with locks and desks that have bulletproof metal tops.
Kids could also be trained in defensive tactics, such as book tossing.
Six-shot revolvers are easy to make.
Ammo is tougher to make, but the Confederate States of America ran on horse urine and manure-made gunpowder.
Guns aren’t going away.
Control freaks have failed utterly to eliminate recreational drugs after more than 100 years of trying.
How about managing/parenting the risk itself, the temper tantrum kids doing this crap??
