However, it turns out that I, and many others here, were wrong about Obama's daughters' school employing armed guard. We should be willing to humbly admit that we were wrong on this issue, and try not to make mistakes of this nature in the future.
How many shots could a suicidal attacker get off at Sidwell even if he was carrying banned "assault weapons" with 30 round magazines?
That school is an armed fortress. They’re just playing semantic games.
Uh huh.
And the left is cutting taxes.
And the left is cutting spending.
And the left wants to preserve gun rights.
In fact, Sidewell isn’t even a school.
It’s a computer warehouse. :)
They currently have a job opening for an SPO - Special Police Officer.
http://www.sidwell.edu/news/article/index.aspx?linkid=32603&moduleid=379
DC SPOs can carry guns and make arrests. In DC Public schools they are required to carry guns.
Qualifications
•Required to possess and maintain a valid motor vehicle operator’s permit and acquire and maintain a District of Columbia operator’s permit to operate a D.C. government motor vehicle.
•Required to work rotating shifts, weekends and holidays.
•Required to carry and use firearms.
•Required to maintain a valid Special Police Officer’s Commission from the Metropolitan Police Department.
•Required to wear a uniform and/or protective clothing.
•Must possess a minimum of five (5) years of experience in law enforcement, physical security, military training or a combination of experience.
•Must possess a minimum of a high school diploma or GED equivalency. Two (2) years collegiate academic course work may be substituted for one (1) year of experience.
•Must currently be qualified as an SPO in the District of Columbia.
•Personnel security investigation required.
•A medical examination is required.
•This position is subject to the Lautenberg Amendment/Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968.
•Must comply with Drug Abuse Testing Program requirements.
•Provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
•Firearms testing and qualification required.
•License/Certification: CPR Techniques, First Aid and Valid State Drivers License
•One-year probationary period required.
•Male applicants born after December 31, 1962 must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
•Required to successfully complete a 90-day training period of the rules, procedures, duties, equipment operations and recognition of policies of the division.
Saying that they do not have armed guards is a bit dishonest, since it is only half of the story. As various posters have said, the SS is there, and they are armed.
It’s like saying “There is no gun in my left hand.” It’s in the right hand, of course.
Ok, I’ll split the difference here. The school doesn’t have armed guards. It has armed Secret Service agents.
Yet there are indeed armed guards at the school when the royal kids are there.
However, it turns out that I, and many others here, were wrong about Obama’s daughters’ school employing armed guard.>>>>>>>>>>>>
The NRA video was correct, and this thread article is just disinformational spin designed to defuse the EFFECTIVE NRA video.
Thats not what Sidwell Friends school advertise when they want to hire a Security officer, they require Applicants must have a current SPO license( i.e. armed), or else they would not require the current SPO license, any former police officer with relevant experience would do:
This is verbatum from their careers page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2978758/posts?page=26#26
January 16, 2013 5:33:15 PM · 26 of 30
Candor7 to freeangel
Sidwell Friends Employment Advertisement:
Special Police Officer
Posted: August 10, 2012
Sidwell Friends School, a coeducational Quaker day school located in the Tenleytown area of Washington, DC, is seeking a full-time Special Police Officer.
The ideal candidate will have above average computer skills and knowledge to assist security officers with security systems, reports on line, access control systems, video retention, camera surveillance and training of officers on maximum computer use for daily activities.
Applicants must have a current SPO license; have the ability to pass criminal background checks & drug/alcohol testing. The ideal candidate will have the ability to write clear concise reports, prepare preliminary investigative reports, as well as interview witnesses, suspects & victims.
This is a full-time hourly position which include free parking, lunch and an attractive benefits package, with retirement plan inclusive of employer match.
Mail, fax, or email resume, information for three references and a copy of your current driver’s & Special Police Officer licenses to: HR@sidwell.edu
Human Resources
Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20016
Fax: (202) 537-2418
http://www.sidwell.edu/news/article/index.aspx?linkid=32603&moduleid=379
So who started this info in the first place? The commies themselves, knowing that they would spring the truth on us later?
Or did someone just assume they were armed. I hate when we bumble into this kind of stuff and repeat it without our own fact checking. Now the commies will accuse us of “lying” about the guards.
And what took this new info so long to get out?
where is your proof? some rag sheet? Surely the NRA had the facts prior to the ad, cream puff
The security guards don’t have to carry guns. The place is crawling with secret service. And they do carry guns......
Obama’s kids should go to public school like every other parent is forced to do if they don’t have the money to pay for private school. Oh wait, that doesn’t apply to celebrities and leftists hypocrites who oppose vouchers...but I digress.
You better believe that Sidwell Friends is one of the most protected schools in the country. I think the Washington Post is playing semantics here.
I don’t believe The Washington Post, Fact Checker, or you.
Sorry... I don’t believe this swill. No way in the world would the elites of DC send their kids to a school that has no armed security, especially in the cesspool of DC.
Actually I kind of doubt the Secret Service would allow that.
I recall the photo a month or so ago here on FR of an agent with his hand covering a New York cop’s holstered sidearm.
Obama, Biden, Wasserman-Schultz, and the whole damned government and Democrat Party openly and constantly repeat proven lies. But they just get even angrier and repeat the same lies when confronted with the truth. Over and over, practice makes perfect, repetition until it becomes the defacto truth.
We are not in a ‘debate’ here. We are in a conflict that represents our very freedom, and I don’t care one whit about this particular fact being true or not. It’s what the Democrats would do.
The reason that school’s guards are apparently not continually armed is that it is highly likely the Secret Service has removed the greatest nearby possible threat to their charges. If the SS were not there, they would be armed, you betcha.
I don’t think I would have let that information out.