So lets see - on a percentage basis, how much more security is at Sidwell than what the democrats were proposing after Newtown?
Is Sidwell, where democrat elites send their kids, more like the what Obama is proposing for public schools or like what La Pierre (NRA) was proposing?
What were the liberal elite saying about the NRA plan?
(Your nice little story about firsthand experience with Sidwell is really just apologetic fluff - without substance.)
welll.. soccer at Sidwell has it’s perks..
Sheesh. Posts like yours are exactly why I thought a little background was in order. Yes, Sidwell has light security (apart from the added presence of the Secret Service due to the Obama girls). So what? There are already armed police officers in most DC public high schools, although their concern is with gangs, drugs, and assaults by students on students and teachers. Armed intruders are not the problem, except as a subset of gang and drug issues. But DC public schools are not open campuses.
Newtown has changed the threat assessment. I personally think it would be an overreaction to add armed security to every kindergarten and elementary school in America, but your mileage may differ. The light security at a place like Sidwell, I imagine, has to do primarily with the fact that it is an expansive campus with students moving between buildings, as opposed to a unitary school building where visitors sign in at the front desk. On a multi-building campus in an urban area, you want a checkpoint at the gate so strangers aren’t wandering the grounds.
As for Sidwell as a bastion of the liberal elite: Sidwell is an outstanding school by anyone’s measure, with a price tag to match. We know several Sidwell families through church and soccer. They are not all democrats and the ones we know are not wealthy. They are upper middle class, dual income folks who are making a serious financial sacrifice to buy up in their kids schooling. We are in the Catholic system which is a little less expensive, but it’s still stiff. I think of it as just having started paying college tuition a few years early.