(February 22, 2018 at 11:21 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I find it strange that anyone would actually be against having one or two armed security guards at a public school lol. Bizarro.
#1. There's already a school resource officer in many schools. There was one in Columbine, and there was one in Parkland. So clearly 'one or two' isn't enough. There's a good reason when there's a mass shooting they don't send in officers in street clothes. They send in the SWAT team.
#2. Where's the room in the budget? How may teachers are going to have to be cut to afford more security guards? I have to buy $200+ of supplies every year because my supply budget is critically low. Some school DISTRICTS in Oklahoma are so bad off that they are only open 4 days a week to save money. Not schools, but school DISTRICTS. The computers at our school are terribly outdated.
#3. Armed Security Guards are used as a way to redirect the argument from gun control.
#4. We don't want to make schools feel like prisons. That creates a bad learning environment. When those security guards aren't stopping mass shootings (if they ever do), they'll likely be dealing with student discipline. Which is an EXTREMELY bad idea. It helps create the school-to-prison pipeline. And that's the last thing we want.
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