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Instead of blaming the police I'd like to see PARENTS go to the school board and have them get some intestinal fortitude and throw drug dealers and weapons carriers out of school. But parents won't do it. We just sit on our big butts and complain.

There were no drugs in this raid. And the only guns were the one's the cops had trained on the unarmed kids in that school.

The school board places high risk kids in with normal kids because they can't throw them out. Therein lies the problem.

I agree with that part. If the school districts want to fix the problem, maybe they should fire some administrators and hire some lawyers to fight in court for their right to expell the problems.

In this case, no there was none. We have done similar 'raids' in our city school system. If this incident happens like ours does, it goes like this.

The school calls us and plans ahead for a day when the 'raid' will occur because they have noticed drugs and weapons in the school. On the scheduled day it happens, kind of a hit or miss thing. Same thing happened here. Seometimes we've gotten drugs and sometimes we havent. Sometimes weapons, sometimes not.

But the point is, the school refuses to handle the problem, they call the police. I wish the police dept. would say "NO, handle it yourself." But they won't probably because since Columbine (I believe this is right) the government says that police dept.'s have to have a plan to handle school emergencies such as this, kids with weapons and drugs.

It's a catch-22.

We had a kid involved in a murder who petitioned to stay in school. The school board said "I can't kick him out." They eventually said no, but do you see the point? Kid involved in a MURDER and they can't throw him out of school.

About 10 to 12 times a year we take guns and knives off of kids at the schools here.