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Marjory Stoneman Douglas will require students to carry only clear backpacks
CNN ^ | 03/22/2018 | Dakin Andone

Posted on 03/23/2018 12:39:17 AM PDT by Trump20162020

When students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas return to class after spring break next week, they'll be required to carry clear backpacks.

The move is meant to ramp up security measures after last month's deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, and a series of breaches since.

"Clear backpacks are the only backpacks that will be permitted on campus," said Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie said in a letter sent to parents.

The district will provide the bags for free, he said. In addition to the new backpack policy, students and school staff will be required to wear IDs at all times while on campus.

Some students have said they're not happy with the changes.

Tyra Hemans, 19, a senior, told CNN she supports parts of the new policy, such as the ID requirement. But she believes other security measures, such as forcing students to carry clear backpacks, don't adequately address the real problem with school safety, which she says is lax gun laws.

"I'm not happy with it. Why are you punishing me for one person's actions?" she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist
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To: Trump20162020

Runcie precipitated the shooting. Runcie has blood on both hands

Runcie must be eliminated to put some in charge that is an educator rather than a corrupt money grubber.


41 posted on 03/23/2018 5:07:36 AM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: Trump20162020

I suppose if this rule were in place before the gunman never would’ve been successful?! Any future gunman will think twice because they know they’ll have their recess taken away?! The liberal mindset is very entertaining!


42 posted on 03/23/2018 5:08:37 AM PDT by albie
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To: Iron Munro

What a punk.


43 posted on 03/23/2018 5:09:17 AM PDT by albie
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To: Trump20162020
If Tyra is a "19-year-old senior," she's probably too stupid to know what "hypocrite" means ... but she is one. She's fine with innocent people being punished for the actions of the guilty, as long as it's other innocent people.
44 posted on 03/23/2018 5:16:28 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Trump20162020

They are implementing the FREE clear backpack rule because someones brother or cousin owns the factory where they are made. Probably in China.


45 posted on 03/23/2018 5:16:36 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (a pures)
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To: Trump20162020

I’d be interested in asking “how will clear back packs help” to a liberal at the office and hear their answer. Will it be...

A) It’s a start
B) If you have nothing to hide, what’s your worry?
C) It’s the best the school system can do considering Trump will never outlaw guns and our children are clearly in danger.


46 posted on 03/23/2018 5:18:05 AM PDT by albie
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To: Trump20162020

We didn’t have back packs when I was in school.

What’s odd is I don’t see why they need anything more than a computer pad now. They should have to carry LESS than we did. Not more.


47 posted on 03/23/2018 5:20:10 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Trump20162020

Now they know how legal gun owners feel.


48 posted on 03/23/2018 5:31:37 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Trump20162020


49 posted on 03/23/2018 5:32:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: familyop

Clear bags and name tags have been required of retail employees for decades. They don’t complain like spoiled brats.


50 posted on 03/23/2018 5:37:30 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Trump20162020

..... Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie ...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This was written in April 2016, over a year before the shooting exposed issues with school policies, security, etc. ..... Runcie is a disaster.

An F for Robert W. Runcie, Superintendent of Broward Schools
https://hibbsforchange.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/an-f-for-robert-w-runcie-superintendent-of-broward-schools/

To back up a bit, how was he doing at his former post in Chicago?

“Less than three months after he was demoted and then laterally moved at part of Chief Executive Officer Jean-Claude Brizard’s shakeup of the Chicago Public Schools central administration, Robert Runcie will be leaving Chicago to become superintendent of the Broward County school district in Florida. He had no CPS teaching or administrative experience when he was brought in by fellow Harvard Alumnus Arne Duncan early in Duncan’s term as CPS CEO.” [Link: http://www.4conservative.com/item/2976333/flashback-robert-runcie-leaving-chicago-to-become-chief-of-broward/]


51 posted on 03/23/2018 5:53:49 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMPIt)
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To: Trump20162020

No more “SpongeBob Squarepants” and “My Little Pony” backpacks for you Spanky! LOL. How does it feel when the government tells YOU that YOU can’t be trusted. Karma is awesome!


52 posted on 03/23/2018 5:54:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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53 posted on 03/23/2018 5:55:35 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Vermont Lt

They’ve had several incidents at this school since the shooting from girls with knives.


54 posted on 03/23/2018 6:00:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Trump20162020

Because the shooter came in and killed people? Oh, wow! If only he had had a clear backpack!!/s


55 posted on 03/23/2018 6:02:04 AM PDT by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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To: Pravious

They should just ban all backpacks. The shooter was banned from campus AND banned from having a backpack on campus.


56 posted on 03/23/2018 6:02:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

There has been a scuffle at this school since the shooting

https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/stoneman-douglas-student-allegedly-pulled-knife-during-school-fight/

One of the students nabbed at the Florida high school where a gunman slaughtered 17 people hid a knife in her bra and pulled it out during a fight, police said.

During a conflict in the cafeteria at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jordan Salter, 18, dumped cereal on another student’s head when he asked her friend a sexually offensive question, the Sun Sentinel reported.

When the boy leaned in close to her face, she pulled a 2-inch black knife from her bra, opened it and flashed it at him, according to a report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Later that afternoon, Gavin Stricker, 16, was arrested when cops were told he’d brandished a knife on a bus the day before and they found a 9-inch blade in his backpack.


57 posted on 03/23/2018 6:05:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Iron Munro

Boss Hogg student reporter needs to file a report today on the Agent of I.S.I.S who shot a guard and is holding customers hostage at a grocer in France.

How should France’s gun laws change?
What is the culture that breeds such violence in France where customers are routinely shot and held hostage?


58 posted on 03/23/2018 6:07:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s so incredibly asinine that I thought this was satire. Alas, no John Semens.


59 posted on 03/23/2018 6:12:10 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Maybe if more of us (Conservatives) actually tried to usurp control of the public education system AWAY from the leftists by BECOMING teachers and administrators, we wouldn't have to sit here day-in and day-out bitching about them so much.

OK, you first! Let the forum know how that works out for you.

60 posted on 03/23/2018 6:26:11 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Kate's Wall, build it!)
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