Mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(02-16-2018, 11:04 AM)Au165 Wrote: Again, I am giving my perspective as someone who works in this area every day. Inside the security industry it is no secret that schools have horrible security, they don't have the money to fix it, and when they do find the funding often don't spend the money wisely as they don't have someone properly advising them.

See, I'm not in favor of schools spending the money on security at the expense of an educational environment. I know there are things that can be done to make a school more secure, but to get to the level of security a lot of people think schools should have it would not be very conducive to learning. It wouldn't be a real childhood.

We have been having an ongoing debate in my city over the plans for a new high school as our current one is >500 students beyond its capacity. An astroturf, Koch funded movement called "Students Over Structures" has been fighting it tooth and nail. Their name, though, is one that I like and have to think of when I look at solutions to school shootings. The policies we need should be student centered, not structure centered. Focusing on security isn't going to solve the real problems that cause these shooters to act in the way they do, and may even exacerbate the issues. We need to be focusing on the students to really get at the heart of this.