Get government out of education.
How much is your child worth?
Could public schools come up with at least two volunteers from staff, including support staff,who would be willing to get trained and carry to protect the kids?
If not, it’s truly sad and pathetic.
Could public schools come up with at least two volunteers from staff, including support staff,who would be willing to get trained and carry to protect the kids?
If not, it’s truly sad and pathetic.
Florida was the first state to implement shall-issue CCW, and the crime rate plummeted when they did.
There are plenty of teachers with CCW permits already. They don’t have to hire armed guards. Just allow the teachers with CCW permits to carry.
That doesn’t cost a penny.
In fairness, should we also factor in the number of school shootings that were avoided by intervention before the perp got the school grounds, or existing procedures that prevented an incident on the grounds?
I state this due to an incident in Milford MA where an officer stopped a suspicious student, frisked backpack, and found a loaded handgun with other ammo. Note this security was NOT on campus, but sharp eyes and quick thinking by the school officials probably prevented an incident.
BTW: Would you believe the MA Supreme Court ruled the ‘search’ was illegal? They did. But at least the cop interceded.
So the cost per student is perhaps about one thousand dollars per student attending any school physical plant.
Eh?
Every school and its district has low or marginally performing admins and “teachers”
Clean house of them and you have MORE than enough for armed security, unarmed security, supplies, technology, books, equipment, furniture, heat/cool, competent nonpolitical REAL teachers, whatever
And gee, students can go back to being students Maybe they might actually learn something useful again
What is the statistical cost of demolishing and rebuilding these schools after each incident?
Why are you pretending to assign a value to human life?
The ban all guns crowd want metal detectors. How much are they per school include amortization. And, who monitors the detectors? The school secretary? No, a guard with a gun of course.
Have you researched the fact the federal funding already underwrites armed security in 67% of some schools?
Old article but interesting
https://ccjs.umd.edu/sites/ccjs.umd.edu/files/pubs/Police%20Officers%20in%20Schools-Effects%20on%20School%20Crime%20and%20the%20Processing%20of%20Offending%20Behaviors.pdf
Find me an inner city or minority- majority school that does not already have police or armed security in the building? They do here in DC and PG County
Ironically “ children of color” are probably safer in school guarded by cops on site than the white liberal upper middle class suburbanites who make their schools “ gun free zones”
Of course people of color protest the fact that when cops patrol their schools the number of kids arrested for crime goes up which is “ rasist”
Now the left has another thing to keep guards out of schools, it will cost too much.
Someone said during Clinton’s reign that Clinton would accept a certain number to be be killed to outlaw guns. Don’t know if the statement was about children though but with all the backlash from the left on any solution I expect they think this way.
...........this makes no sense. There will be, nearly always, teachers on premises that don’t mind taking on the responsibility of carrying a pistol on their belt all day and being trained particularly if there is extra pay involved.
In those cases where there was not a school teacher willing to step up and protect the children, the individual school district should be required to hire somebody. Simple as that! The kids MUST have protection from the maniacs! Period!
Next step. Close Government Schools! Fire all NEA teachers.
Why not identify the teachers who are prior military/police, allow them to carry? Or identify those who want to learn and allow them to carry.
If I give my kids to a government institution for the day, they had better guarantee their security. We provide more security at various state and federal buildings than we do at schools. I don’t care how much it costs, schools need to become like the TSA, just like we’ve been doing at inner city schools for decades. Turn the soft target, gun free zone into a well secured hard one just like the Israeli’s. The school systems have the money, they’ve simply chosen to spend it on building massive bureaucracies filled with paper pushers. It’s time for the school administrations to become smaller and the schools to become safer.
Arm the teachers,
Just make military experience the ONLY requirement to have ANY job in a school, then fire anyone without it, quickly hire some unemployed vets to take over, and tell those “teachers” destroying our country by brainwashing our kids with their liberal dogma that they only way they get back to their jobs is if they can make it through boot camp.
Ok. Just tell me how much of my productivity will need to be confiscated so no American ever has to cry.
Call me when it’s over!
That’s ridiculous. All that’s necessary is to allow properly qualified teachers who have CCW permits to carry on school premises. Jewelry stores have armed security in most cases because the owners and employees carry. Same thing for gun ranges. I’ve been to many and there are no regular armed guards. Rather, the employees and owners just carry and security takes of itself. Same thing would happen with schools.