02-16-2018, 11:43 AM
(02-16-2018, 11:13 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.
Living in fear of being shot isn't conducive to learning either.
You can take a long term approach to fixing the students, but that will take years and in the meantime what do you do? This kid was no longer in school so how do you "fix" all the former students like here, or at Sandy Hook, where you no longer have contact with them until they kill? Again, there is no one size fits all to fixing the issue but security should be something in the minds of almost all facilities in today world. I have said a couple times I am not a fan of metal detectors, but there are many other things they can be doing that are relatively inconspicuous that can improve security.
